John VanSickle <evi### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Furthermore, this law will be selectively enforced.  The history of 
> restrictions on free speech give no example of such a law that was 
> uniformly enforced whether A slandered B or B slandered A; the 
> government has always taken sides, acting on one group's complaints no 
> matter how ludicrous they were, and turning a deaf ear to the grievances 
> of the other.

  There was a clear case of this rather recently in Sweden (surprise).

  Sweden's law has this section which criminalizes slander against groups
of people based on their ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, etc.

  Well, not long ago an extreme feminist wrote a heated article in a
newspaper using almost all possible forms of slander against Swedish men
(basically she wrote that Swedish men are in all ways inferior to immigrant
men, and used all kinds of insulting words against Swedish men).

  The question was raised whether this broke the law regarding slander
against a group, in this case based on nationality, ethnicity and gender.
An official statement was made that this was *not* a case criminalized
by the law (even though the law has absolutely no mention of such an
exception).

  The fact that the law is not the same for all people regardless of gender,
nationality and ethnicity got de jure status.

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                                                          - Warp

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