Maclean's magazine, Canada's Newsweek , was brought before the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal for running an excerpt from Mark Steyn 's book America Alone . The California websites introduced as evidence were FreeRepublic and Catholic Answers. The claim was that their discussion boards proved that Maclean's inspire hate-speech toward Muslims. The Washington Times reports : Numerous Canadians and Americans following the hearing denounced the case as absurd and that it is a threat to free speech that a provincial tribunal is asserting jurisdiction over the writings of a best-selling author residing in New Hampshire, based upon an out-of-province complainant offended by the response of anonymous American readers on American Web sites. We also point out the absurdity of naming a site called 'Free Republic' in a very totalitarian type tribunal. What's next? The Southern Poverty Law Center and the overly permissive US Constitution? New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media ...
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Maclean's magazine, Canada's Newsweek , was brought before the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal for running an excerpt from Mark Steyn 's book America Alone . The California websites introduced as evidence were FreeRepublic and Catholic Answers. The claim was that their discussion boards proved that Maclean's inspire hate-speech toward Muslims. The Washington Times reports : Numerous Canadians and Americans following the hearing denounced the case as absurd and that it is a threat to free speech that a provincial tribunal is asserting jurisdiction over the writings of a best-selling author residing in New Hampshire, based upon an out-of-province complainant offended by the response of anonymous American readers on American Web sites. We also point out the absurdity of naming a site called 'Free Republic' in a very totalitarian type tribunal. What's next? The Southern Poverty Law Center and the overly permissive US Constitution? New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media ...