{"id":41485,"date":"2014-03-21T13:25:03","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T19:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/21\/criminalizing-speech-is-rarely-a-good-idea.html"},"modified":"2014-03-23T11:15:13","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T17:15:13","slug":"criminalizing-speech-is-rarely-a-good-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/21\/criminalizing-speech-is-rarely-a-good-idea.html","title":{"rendered":"Criminalizing speech is rarely a good idea"},"content":{"rendered":"
Even if it's for a good cause. And the reasons are lined out here pretty well — defining broad classes of speech in a way that won't lead to unintended consequences or discriminatory prosecution is incredibly difficult.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Alex Scrivener<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Soon, it could be a criminal matter to call someone a \u2018sexist\u2019 in Belgium. Even if someone may in fact be one. Why, you ask? Because the country\u2019s political majority is determined to enact a new law. In what is believed to be the first legislation of its type, anywhere, the concept of sexism will be rendered punishable.<\/i><\/p>\n

A logical side effect of making sexism illegal is that the simple act of accusing someone of being sexist, may amount to criminal defamation. Under Belgian law, as in many other legal systems, it is an offense to accuse someone of having committed crimes that they were not actually convicted for. Law is often a double-edged sword.<\/i><\/p>\n

In addition to this, the bill is superfluous and it poses major risks to free speech.<\/i>\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Belgium bans a wide range of sexist speech<\/a>
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Even if it's for a good cause. And the reasons are lined out here pretty well — defining broad classes of speech in a way that won't lead to unintended consequences or discriminatory prosecution is incredibly difficult. Reshared post from +Alex Scrivener Soon, it could be a criminal matter to call someone a \u2018sexist\u2019 in … Continue reading “Criminalizing speech is rarely a good idea”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-censorship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41407,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/12\/on-being-consciously-non-sexist.html","url_meta":{"origin":41485,"position":0},"title":"On Being Consciously Non-Sexist","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 12-Mar-14 3:10pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Or non-racist, or non-[fill-in-the-blank]ist ...There seem to be three levels here that the label of sexism (to choose an ism - and just to further simplify, we'll make it sexism against women) covers:1. 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