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		theorique on June 19, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hosteurope.de shut down our servers due to “politi... In Canada, "human rights tribunals" have been weaponized to attack journalists and writers. See, for example, the case of Mark Steyn, who has been harassed by Islamic extremists deploying "lawfare" techniques to silence his freedom of speech. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_complaints_agains...

zajd on June 19, 2015 [–]

Except that they haven't, it's actually a really good case where the law is able to discern whether or not something is hate speech.

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