Originally posted by KrazyHorse
It reminds me of Quebec's Padlock Law, where all writings by communists were to be seized and the locations they were found in padlocked by the government.
The reasoning was based on the fact that communists incited violence against the ruling order.
The real problem lay in the fact that it was also held that publications which did not make any mention of violence could be deemed communist.
So communist writings were banned because they promoted violence, yet it was not necessary for writing to contain any mention of violence to be considered violence.
It reminds me of Quebec's Padlock Law, where all writings by communists were to be seized and the locations they were found in padlocked by the government.
The reasoning was based on the fact that communists incited violence against the ruling order.
The real problem lay in the fact that it was also held that publications which did not make any mention of violence could be deemed communist.
So communist writings were banned because they promoted violence, yet it was not necessary for writing to contain any mention of violence to be considered violence.

If the hate laws can be struck down at the SCoC, I will be very interested in reading that decision.
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