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Originally Posted by Agentorange
One other thing does spring to mind. A while back Moon advocated that people shouldn't pay taxes in the USA as a form of protest against the US being in Iraq. Matt removed the thread and told Moon off on the basis that this was advocating breaking US law, thus leaving the site open to legal action. Since several of the threads under discussion here have advocated violence, harrassment etc etc of various ethnic groups all of which are also ( I imagine ) illegal under US law it strikes me they are also should be treated the same way, ie thread removed and poster warned.
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Since none of these threads have been removed even after moderators have examined/participated in them I must presume that they contain no criminal incitement of the sort.
Second, unlike your putrid filthy no-good communist cesspool of a nation; America has a strong attachment to free speech; it is not illegal to offer an opinion of what you would like to see happen to people. In America I could say that I would not object to people being killed and as long as I do not openly make a statement that leads to imminent lawlessness or constitutes a criminal conspiracy to commit an actual crime this is protected free speech.
Third, I am not convinced that U.S. law allows for the punishment of a site owner for the comments of people made on his site. I heard the Supreme Court recently made such a determination? Maybe O'Sullivan can address this issue?