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Debugging conference anti-harassment policies

Debugging conference anti-harassment policies

Posted Feb 1, 2011 1:03 UTC (Tue) by MisterIO (guest, #36192)
In reply to: Debugging conference anti-harassment policies by fuhchee
Parent article: Debugging conference anti-harassment policies

For speeches?! Then how come there's still something like the KKK? It depends on what you discriminate for? I think you're making this up.


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Hate Crimes

Posted Feb 1, 2011 3:10 UTC (Tue) by mrshiny (subscriber, #4266) [Link]

Not every country is the United States. Canada, in particular, has Hate crime laws which prohibit certain kinds of speech. I don't know about Australia specifically, but Wikipedia has more info.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_crime

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