martybegan
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Very chilling court decsion in Australia:
The Volokh Conspiracy » Illegal Article About Aborigines by Australian Journalist
The basics is that the court found the articles written by the journalist (the actual articles are at the bottom of the descion link) were somehow racist, and therefore could not be published anymore, and will now force the publishing paper to either post an voluntary apology, or be forced to place a notice of the judgement in thier paper.
Luckily our first amendment, properly intepreted through the courts, usually prevents this crap over here. However I am sure that there are those in the PC crowd that would love for this to reach our shores.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Illegal Article About Aborigines by Australian Journalist
The basics is that the court found the articles written by the journalist (the actual articles are at the bottom of the descion link) were somehow racist, and therefore could not be published anymore, and will now force the publishing paper to either post an voluntary apology, or be forced to place a notice of the judgement in thier paper.
Luckily our first amendment, properly intepreted through the courts, usually prevents this crap over here. However I am sure that there are those in the PC crowd that would love for this to reach our shores.