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Re:Mumbai girl arrested for Facebook post by pretoriusB on Monday November 19, 2012 @04:07AM (#4803579)
>But if there were no "religious sentiments", there will be no law.

Which is no argument at all. It's like saying, "if there weren't blacks, there would be no racism".

You can have restrictive laws based on everything, no need to single out religion. Sources of restrictive laws range from health (like the drug laws), to tolerance (no hate speech), to patriotism (too many to mention), to children (internet censorship etc).

That doesn't mean the sources are bad themselves.

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Re:Mumbai girl arrested for Facebook post by guard-of-terra on Monday November 19, 2012 @04:58AM (#4803678)
Religion is a particulary nasty offender in the free speech department. And it's not like I don't blame internet censorships, "war on drugs" and stuff. I do. They have their times.
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