free speech

The recent news of the police busting into a mans office after he made 'Transphobic' comments online garnered a lot of attention recently, The bloke basically pointed out that the person in question was just wearing a wig. He was eventually left alone after a period of police phoning him to ask...

This was proposed in Germany a while ago but has now become law: http://www.wired.co.uk/article/facebook-twitter-hate-speech-germany-fine Germany already has a number of "Hate Speech" laws. What this bill does is not add to that, but give it more teeth. It allows for enormous fines for...