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Hate Crimes

Hate Crimes

Posted Feb 1, 2011 3:10 UTC (Tue) by mrshiny (subscriber, #4266)
In reply to: Debugging conference anti-harassment policies by MisterIO
Parent article: Debugging conference anti-harassment policies

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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