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Re:European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrou... by espadrine on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @02:06PM (#17357949)
Unsurprisingly, this law was most pushed by anti-EU right-wing politicians that somehow got elected as MEP, such as Marie-Christine Boutonnet[0] and Gilles Lebreton[1].

All French MEPs of the European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs but one are right-wing eurosceptics, and for this law[2].

(Aside, the right-wing extremists MEPs were easily recognized during the Zuckerberg hearing, as their questions focused exclusively on the worry that Facebook restricts —“censors”, in their words— hate speech[3].)

[0]: https://twitter.com/MCBoutonnetFN/status/1009429390151901185

[1]: https://twitter.com/Gilles_Lebreton/status/10093895047871078...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament_Committee_...

[3]: https://twitter.com/NicolasBay_/status/998979333011197952

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Re:European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrou... by Camillo on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @02:28PM (#17358199)
That's not really borne out by the vote: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/149721/juri-committee-...

It seems that 3 eurosceptics voted yes, one voted no, and two abstained. The bill was actually introduced and mostly voted for by the EPP, which is a centre-right and strongly pro-EU group (Angela Merkel's CDU is part of it).

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Re:European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrou... by HumanDrivenDev on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @08:04PM (#17361016)
Restricting so-called "hate speech" is censorship. Perhaps it's censorship you agree with, but then at least have the integrity to forthrightly say you agree with censorship.
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Re:European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrou... by espadrine on Thursday June 21, 2018 @03:28AM (#17362894)
The definition of censorship only applies to government decisions.

A non-governmental entity can only, by definition, censor something if mandated by the government.

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Re:European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrou... by sebst on Thursday June 21, 2018 @06:52AM (#17363803)
True. But this mandate is what these anti hate speech laws are about.
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