Captain Clinch is gloating.
What is “vilify”? How is it defined? What’s the standard? What’s the threshold? How is the tension between “it is a crime to vilify” and the value of free speech resolved?
Exactly, to the minute, 24 hours between the two.
Captain Clinch is gloating.
What is “vilify”? How is it defined? What’s the standard? What’s the threshold? How is the tension between “it is a crime to vilify” and the value of free speech resolved?
Exactly, to the minute, 24 hours between the two.
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7 responses to “Just don’t defame & don’t vilify”
does that include shunning?
In other words, you have free speech as long as you don’t say anything I don’t like.
iknklast, we don’t have a legislated right to free speech in Australia, only various conventions. The closest we came to that right was when the High Court ruled that there was an “implied right to free political speech.
We also have a plague level of tribunals that operate outside the court system, and it was to one of these that Cap’n Bridie went to seek relief from the burden of not having her lies accepted as truths.
Viva la TERFs!
That’s interesting. From what do these tribunals derive their authority?
State or territory governments.
The initial idea was good, a smaller, easier to access tribunal to take the pressure off the courts in deciding minor matters. Sort of like a small claims court for human rights.
Sadly, they have morphed into an amorphous collection of cliques and commissars.
https://hrc.act.gov.au/
Thank you.
How depressing.