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Re: Java Programming Best Practices

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On 7/22/2012 8:18 PM, markspace wrote:
> On 7/22/2012 3:43 PM, Robert Klemme wrote:
>
>> I don't think Roedy's statements qualify as hate speech (and I come from
>> Germany which has a more restrictive approach to freedom of speech).
>
>
> Furthermore I recall that Roedy lives in Canada, and maintains his web
> presence there, complicating the whole "US law" thing even more.  (What
> treaties exist to cover speech?  I don't know.)

There's some blathering about freedom of speech in the UN Declaration of 
Human Rights, but it's vague on where freedom of speech stops. The 
Durham Conference produced a toothless document a few years ago, but 
considering that several notable countries boycotted, it's not really 
worth talking about.

The US has extremely liberal free speech laws--hate speech is actually 
protected free speech here; considering that, e.g., Arab countries have 
attempted to push for making defamation against (read: criticism of) 
religion not-free speech, it's very doubtful that any treaty the US 
would agree to would be tenable to the rest of the world.

-- 
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not 
tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth

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  Re: Java Programming Best Practices Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-07-21 10:53 -0400
    Re: Java Programming Best Practices Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-21 14:55 -0700
      Re: Java Programming Best Practices Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-07-21 21:59 -0400
        Re: Java Programming Best Practices Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-07-22 16:11 -0700
          Re: Java Programming Best Practices Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-07-22 20:01 -0400
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    Re: Java Programming Best Practices Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-07-21 23:41 -0700
      Re: Java Programming Best Practices Philip Brown <phil@bolthole.com> - 2012-07-22 12:50 -0700
        Re: Java Programming Best Practices Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-07-22 13:07 -0700
          Re: Java Programming Best Practices Philip Brown <phil@bolthole.com> - 2012-07-22 13:43 -0700
            Re: Java Programming Best Practices Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-07-22 14:25 -0700
              Re: Java Programming Best Practices Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-07-23 00:43 +0200
                Re: Java Programming Best Practices markspace <-@.> - 2012-07-22 17:18 -0700
                Re: Java Programming Best Practices Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2012-07-22 21:11 -0400
                Re: Java Programming Best Practices Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-07-22 20:24 -0400
              Re: Java Programming Best Practices Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-07-22 21:34 -0400
  Re: Java Programming Best Practices Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-07-21 15:45 -0400

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