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Re:EU to greenlight Chat Control tomorrow by katbyte on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @10:42AM (#40718396)
Problem is the damage is already done. You lost your job. Your kid committed suicide. The mod has murdered.

You can’t undo that, not to mention it not illegal to fire someone because if you read some false facts in the paper

Re:EU to greenlight Chat Control tomorrow by account42 on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @04:07AM (#40725999)
Punishing someone for "bad" speech is also not going to prevent that.

Both approaches rely on punishment disincentivizing others from behaving in the same way. Except that hate speech laws are a bludgeon that a) can be easily circumvented by clever speech that is still going to encourage violence and b) is guaranteed to be used sooner or later as a pretense to silence dissidents whose speech would not result in violence. They are really only one tiny step removed from trying to combat thought crimes.

> Not to mention it not illegal to fire someone because if you read some false facts in the paper

Some countries have strong worker protections that actually make it quite hard to fire someone without a good reason.

Re:EU to greenlight Chat Control tomorrow by katbyte on Thursday June 20, 2024 @01:37PM (#40741196)
“Punishing someone for theft or murder isn’t going to prevent that”

Is basically the argument you’re making here. So I guess we shouldn’t have any punishment for any behaviour then eh?

Re:EU to greenlight Chat Control tomorrow by account42 on Friday June 21, 2024 @08:29AM (#40748897)
You might try reading the rest of the comment.