More "No First Amendment in Europe" Reports
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Some speed blogging:
ITEM: Lance Armstrong indicted (not sued, but indicted) for criminal (not civil, but criminal) libel in Italy against a fellow Tour de France competitor. Having excessively anti-defendant tort laws for defamation in Europe is bad enough, but to also have criminal laws against defamation is patently absurd and unacceptably anti-liberty. (More thoughts at Division of Labour.)
ITEM: Two drunken fools outside a concentration camp museum in Germany were arrested for giving a "Hitler salute" and singing a pro-Aryan song as tourists arrived in a bus. I'm sympathetic to the claim that "Swastikas in Germany" are sui generis, but there ought to be some minimum threshold before criminal penalties attach. And if not, then the next question is how long should Germany's zero tolerance policy for all things Nazi last? We're already at 60 years. Would 75 years be enough? One hundred? Forever?
ITEM: Lance Armstrong indicted (not sued, but indicted) for criminal (not civil, but criminal) libel in Italy against a fellow Tour de France competitor. Having excessively anti-defendant tort laws for defamation in Europe is bad enough, but to also have criminal laws against defamation is patently absurd and unacceptably anti-liberty. (More thoughts at Division of Labour.)
ITEM: Two drunken fools outside a concentration camp museum in Germany were arrested for giving a "Hitler salute" and singing a pro-Aryan song as tourists arrived in a bus. I'm sympathetic to the claim that "Swastikas in Germany" are sui generis, but there ought to be some minimum threshold before criminal penalties attach. And if not, then the next question is how long should Germany's zero tolerance policy for all things Nazi last? We're already at 60 years. Would 75 years be enough? One hundred? Forever?
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Posted by Kip on
15 December 2005
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