3) It is beneficial. Back in the day, neo-nazis and holocaust deniers used to file libel laws against their critics in countries outside the US, exploiting limitations of free speech to their own advantage. UK and some other commonwealth countries do not have the protections Americans have concerning speech, so are at the mercy at these laws where the onus is on you to prove you didn't libel not the other way around. As for hate speech, if there is a demonstration here by political enemies of the current regime, the police stand there closely monitoring language they claim violates the law, arrest the speaker then 3 years later the case is thrown out of court but only after thousands in lawyer fees are paid. They also can shut down their newspapers, seize their books, whatever they want. It's an effective way to silence your critics. Another method used here was obscenity laws to shut down gay and lesbian periodicals. There was a gay book store here that had print books without porn seized at the border during import and declared obscene. The onus was on them to prove it wasn't obscene, at great financial cost. Note these books came from the US, where such limitations on expression/speech don't exist.
4) The point is not a concrete guideline, because as written above governments will just abuse this to their advantage. They can always arrest you, seize everything your own, destroy your newspaper ect ect and then years later you prove you did not violate hate speech, but you're still ruined financially and they were able to silence you for a few years. Nation states have endless resources to tie up the courts with phony hate speech cases against their detractors. Imagine if Donald Trump had access to these laws, who has a history of litigating his critics. Be careful what you wish for.
Inciting violence and making threats falls under criminal code, I don't know why you'd want additional laws to just enable the state to do even more damage. It seems much easier to just not give these people the attention seeking platform they desire by turning them into martyrs. They don't want you to rationally dispute their racist views, they want you to try and suppress them so they can 'prove' their conspiracy theories.
Daily Stormer is the far-right version of The Onion. It's extreme racist satire, with outright comedy articles about Pokemon Go, Silicon Valley groupthink, ect. It is odd the media has singled them out as the most dangerous site in the world elevating them to mainstream status from their previous fringe existence. I don't agree with recreating third-reich tabloid newspapers like they have done, but the overwhelming attacks they are receiving for just writing articles is not accomplishing what their detractors think it is, it's just making them more popular and sympathetic to the masses.
4) The point is not a concrete guideline, because as written above governments will just abuse this to their advantage. They can always arrest you, seize everything your own, destroy your newspaper ect ect and then years later you prove you did not violate hate speech, but you're still ruined financially and they were able to silence you for a few years. Nation states have endless resources to tie up the courts with phony hate speech cases against their detractors. Imagine if Donald Trump had access to these laws, who has a history of litigating his critics. Be careful what you wish for.
Inciting violence and making threats falls under criminal code, I don't know why you'd want additional laws to just enable the state to do even more damage. It seems much easier to just not give these people the attention seeking platform they desire by turning them into martyrs. They don't want you to rationally dispute their racist views, they want you to try and suppress them so they can 'prove' their conspiracy theories.
Daily Stormer is the far-right version of The Onion. It's extreme racist satire, with outright comedy articles about Pokemon Go, Silicon Valley groupthink, ect. It is odd the media has singled them out as the most dangerous site in the world elevating them to mainstream status from their previous fringe existence. I don't agree with recreating third-reich tabloid newspapers like they have done, but the overwhelming attacks they are receiving for just writing articles is not accomplishing what their detractors think it is, it's just making them more popular and sympathetic to the masses.