You mentioned totally free speech. You mentioned totally free speech.
That is not possible in Europe.
Germany, Turkey and a few other countries here has laws against denying or mentioning some historical events, breaking those laws can lead to prison sentences.
Here in Sweden a site owner was recently sentenced for posts the members of his forum had made, which he did not moderate, and so on.
So basically aw.net can not allow as much "free speech" as Amiga.org can, the server is in France, and thus the French laws apply.
That's really sad to hear. Our history in our country tells us that banning ideas and people's feelings even for ideas we hold to be wrong and not in the interests of the country are still within our free speech amendments.
For instance a few years ago in a local area was subject to a hate group rally. The police didn't stop them from marching due to their rights to free speech even though people in the country hold their beliefs and hatred of specific groups of people to be dangerous. The police ended up coming in to break up violence by other groups when they clashed with them and counter demonstrated.
It was actually pretty cool to be in the general vicinity of all of it happening and to see the ideals of free speech in action. Mostly because we know that even with radical ideas in play, my nation and it's laws still work. Needless to say the group found the free speech protest useless to their cause and hasn't been back to the area..
Maybe people need not be afraid of radical ideas and notions if the laws in their country support a system of governing that really allow for freedom of expression of it's peoples. They should work to change their laws to allow for the free expression of their people's views.
Either way: I can't see how any "Amiga" based discussion however that might really violate the current in place laws.. I would hate to think that this could be used to justify censorship either way.
