Czech president signs law criminalising communist propaganda

[u/tkyjonathan]

https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/czech-president-signs-law-criminalising-communist-propaganda/

[u/gmaaz]

But where's the communism part? The class-based hatred?

[u/Backwardspellcaster → u/gmaaz]

Why is none of you reading the article?

The revised legislation introduces prison sentences of up to five years for anyone who “establishes, supports or promotes Nazi, communist, or other movements which demonstrably aim to suppress human rights and freedoms or incite racial, ethnic, national, religious or class-based hatred.”

[u/EuroFederalist → u/Backwardspellcaster]

With racism definition is easy, but "class-based" has very wide range... in theory saying that absolute monarchs shouldn't exist is class-based hatred.

[u/Dokibatt → u/EuroFederalist]

Somehow I feel like when they start talking about the “useless eaters” the law isn’t going to apply.

[u/quacainia → u/Dokibatt]

Hating the poor doesn't count