Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay
by hansbo on Friday March 05, 2021 @04:53AM
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Defamation is illegal in plenty of non-dystopian countries.
Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay
by manigandham on Friday March 05, 2021 @12:17PM
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There's a difference between defamation and denigration.
You're allowed to criticize anything, but if you knowingly publish lies, especially maliciously, then it crosses the line.
Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay
by hansbo on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @02:02AM
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There is a difference, but there are countries where it is illegal despite it being true. Sweden is an example of this.
Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay
by pineaux on Friday March 05, 2021 @05:17AM
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I don't see a government censoring this book. Is it illegal to have this book? Should I now force barnes and noble to sell my radical insurrectionist anarchist zines? They are gagging my right to free speech!
Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay
by Veen on Friday March 05, 2021 @05:33AM
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You seem to have responded to the wrong comment. Either that or you decided my comment was a good opportunity to spew some irrelevant gibberish.
Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay
by base698 on Friday March 05, 2021 @06:24AM
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Would be?
Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay
by illirik on Friday March 05, 2021 @04:42AM
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There's a difference between "you shouldn't do hate speech" and some sort of 1984/V-for-Vendetta mechanism to ensure that nobody ever does hate speech. Laws and ethics are not the same thing.
Of course you do. Can you imagine what the world would be like if the government gave itself the power and created the bureaucratic machinery to stop people denigrating their fellow man? It would be a dystopian nightmare.