How does the new Hate Crime Laws affect TTOL?

[HeritageDoc]

Anyone care to chime in on how the new Hate Crime laws will affect the TOL?

Are there new rules?

What kind of liability do the owners assume?

What do forum members need to know to keep from running afoul of new laws?

[Katy of the fort]

Not say anything agaist the gov, any religion? Just sayin'. Seriously though this will be intersting to see how it unfold with the new definitions of racism and other hate crimes that we have been hearing.

[straightstreet]

I have wondered the same thing. I get the feeling TPTB will use it to silence alot of people if possible. seems like I read somewhere that the hate crime bill covers everyone except white males. Is this true?
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[MtnGal]

Originally Posted by straightstreet

I have wondered the same thing. I get the feeling TPTB will use it to silence alot of people if possible. seems like I read somewhere that the hate crime bill covers everyone except white males. Is this true?
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white males and Christians

[ingodsgarden]

These new laws are so fluid.

Someone would have to having read a post by anyone on this forum go out and specifically commit some act resulting in violence (or perceived as threat to an individual, this is where it get's very gray) and then the intent of crime would have to be tied back to that post... or another scenario, someone (non-participant) would have to talk about the post to another person, and then that second person go and commit some act.. you get the picture.

I imagine everyone that posted on that topic including the forum owners who allowed it could be blamed and made accountable.

And there are so many different scenarios that could be conjured up.

The only way to not run afoul of the laws is to keep ones mouth shut and be completely compliant and 100% politically correct at all times. Are you game for that? Believe that anyone who ever posts or reads this forum will be even if it was concensus?

This law was Pandora's box and it is now open.

Do you know that Focus in the Family has to completely whitewash it's Canadian broadcasts because of laws like this, well now.. it's home as well.

People are going to have to make hard choices.

[Miradus]

They're going to use this to silence churches first. It will be a long time before they get around to rounding up loose ends like internet forums.

[.30-30]

I violate these laws every day.

I fear great persecution of Christian's will be widespread soon.

God have mercy.

[Katy of the fort]

Originally Posted by Miradus

They're going to use this to silence churches first. It will be a long time before they get around to rounding up loose ends like internet forums.

I agree about the churches but the left used the internet and forums quite effectively in their movement to power so I think they would try to subdue any future grassroots power against them.

[EWNC]

It is to my understanding under this new Hate-Crime law pedophiles are now a protected "class" because of their "sexual preference".

[Lavender]

I think in the future it will come down to this...... if a poster said something against a minority (woman, black, brown, yellow, homosexual, catholic, protestant, Mormon, Jewish, Democrat, the President, too old, too short, too tall, too fat, too rich, too ugly ) and if someone who read the post got into a fight with one of the minorities, because we riled them up, we the poster, could be accused of a hate crime. In other words, our thoughts and words will be illegal someday....End of the internet.