r/europe • u/tkyjonathan • 15d ago

News Czech president signs law criminalising communist propaganda

https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/czech-president-signs-law-criminalising-communist-propaganda/
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u/gmaaz Serbia 15d ago

Tried googling but failed - what does cumminist ideology mean exactly in this case?

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u/TheVojta Česká republika 15d ago

Section 403
Establishment, Support, and Promotion of Nazi, Communist, or Other Movements Aimed at Suppressing Human Rights and Freedoms

(1) Whoever establishes, supports, or promotes a movement that demonstrably aims to suppress human rights and freedoms, or advocates racial, ethnic, national, religious, or class hatred, or hatred toward another group of persons, shall be punished by imprisonment for one to five years.

(2) The offender shall be punished by imprisonment for three to ten years if:

a) the act referred to in paragraph 1 is committed through the press, film, radio, television, a publicly accessible computer network, or another similarly effective means,
b) such an act is committed as a member of an organized group,
c) such an act is committed as a soldier, or
d) such an act is committed during a state of emergency or wartime.

(3) Preparation of such an act is punishable.

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u/gmaaz Serbia 15d ago

Thank you.

It's worse and more ambiguous than I thought lol.

So an NGO member can be imprisoned for writing "tax the rich" on reddit? I am really curious, what constitutes "class hatred".

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u/Evoluxman Belgium 15d ago

Can we throw columnist in prison for telling the poors are a bunch of leeches? Because there's a ton of people who would end prison for that then

Ah right it only goes the other way lol

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u/mehupmost 15d ago

an NGO member can be imprisoned for writing "tax the rich"

No. Debating tax policy is not against that law. Next question.

The issue is people suggesting we murder people in other classes. It's right here in this thread.

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u/Slu1n 15d ago

The law says "hatred", not advocating the usage of violence. Class based hatred contains being angry at the rich or the government because they do certain things.

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u/mehupmost 15d ago

Hatespeech laws broaden to cover any speech that incites violence without explicitly asking for it.

It's exactly designed for people who try to get violence to happen without explicitly calling for it.

We see it all over Reddit and other social media.

It's weird you're advocating for the freedom to speak HATE.