Re:Shock European court decision: Websites are liable for us...
by matt4077 on Monday December 11, 2017 @05:09PM
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“Human Rights” in this context is rather similar to the US’ Constitution’s amendments, not whatever chain of free associations you are coming up with: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Convention_on_Human...
Re:Shock European court decision: Websites are liable for us...
by maxerickson on Monday December 11, 2017 @04:47PM
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No such thing as a human rights court is necessary when the laws are themselves just and enforced by just courts.
The Supreme Court spends plenty of time laughing unjust laws out of existence.
Having a court setup to evaluate laws seems like a difference in mechanism more than a difference in effect.
Sarcasm aside, this ruling is the sort of insanity that one can expect from human rights courts in countries that lack a long-standing commitment to freedom of speech. The very notion of a "human rights court" is foreign to citizens of countries with nothing like the American Constitution's 1st Amendment and absolutist jurisprudence that we have here in the U.S. No such thing as a human rights court is necessary when the laws are themselves just and enforced by just courts. From the U.S., the notion of "human rights court" seems to exist only so as to impinge on individual freedoms rather than so as to strengthen them, and this follows from the idea that they should not be necessary in Western countries that should have just laws to begin with -- and this perception is supported by this sort of ruling.
One even expects that saying the above alone will be seen as evidence of racism/sexism/whatever-ism for even merely denying that a human rights court should be necessary in the West... implies denial of human rights simply because of the institution's very name. The very act of naming something in this way leads to suspicion that it is a euphemistic name, like all those People's Democratic Republics of yore (and, still, the DPRK), or the UN's very own not-remotely-sane human rights commission.