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New Zealand man jailed for 21 months for sharing Christchurch shooting video (bbc.com)
6 points by s9w on June 19, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments


All speech that doesn't cause imminent danger, no matter how heinous, hateful or unpopular, must not be restrained nor punished.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

- Evelyn Beatrice Hall


This is a triumph of emotion over good law.


my emotions say "good he gets to spend time", my common sense says "now he gets a chance to surround himself further with already convicted haters which radicalize and cement his broken views further".

Sadly incarceration does't fix the underlying problem nor does it provide a net gain to society.


Why? It's a serious hate crime, akin to instilling violence.


If he applauded the actions in the video, that’s one thing, because that’s very close to inciting violence. But what if someone forwarded the video with a comment such as, “We need to broadcast the full horror of what occurred, so that people who are considering doing something similar might have a change of heart”? If that should be illegal as well, then we’re in “Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil” territory. And I don’t like that one bit.


He forwarded a video




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