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The Pirate Bay becomes Freedom Bay

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

It’s probably frowned on in certain quarters to support an outfit like The Pirate Bay, the law-flouting group of Swedish hackers that has become one of the world’s leading sources of links BitTorrent files. But I can’t help but admire their willingness to thumb ... Continue reading »

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  • Chris

    1 year ago

    They're only offering to defend it if it doensn't break Swedish law (and how is that being anti-authority?). Swedish law not only has criminal hate speech laws but in 2002 a newspaper was found guilty of such after someone posted anonymous messages on an unmoderated forum it ran (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/28/bloody_...). Defined as 'publicly making statements that threaten or express disrespect for an ethnic group or similar group regarding their race, skin colour, national or ethnic origin, faith or sexual orientation' according to wikipedia. So unless they're going to fight that then on that count at least I wouldn't regard it as a haven for unfettered freedom of speech. Still, good publicity.
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  • mathewi

    1 year ago

    A fair point, Chris.
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