The Ripper
12-16-2010, 07:09 PM
The government has proposed stronger measures to deal with racially motivated and hate crimes perpetrated on the internet. Toughened severity clauses will be applied to both racially motivated and other hate crimes in the future.
Keeping writings on the net promoting such crimes would be prosecuted in addition to their distribution. For example, displaying writings that promote violence on an individual’s own web pages or social network site would be punishable even if that person was not the writer of the offending copy.
A specific clause in criminal justice legislation outlawing the promotion of racial hatred towards others would be adopted allowing for a maximum punishment of our years’ imprisonment.
This clause could also be applied to such cases encouraging mass destruction or similar severe crimes against human rights, murder and terrorist-related killings.
So called hate crimes against a person on the grounds of colour, place of birth, faith, sexual orientation or disability would fall under the same clause.
Commenting on the government’s proposals, which would bring Finland into line with EU policy, Minister of Justice, Tuija Brax, said social network sites such as Facebook were no different from any garden fence or letters' column when promoting racial hatred.
YLE
http://yle.fi/uutiset/news/2010/12/laws_governing_racial_and_hate_crimes_to_be_toughe ned_2225974.html
Keeping writings on the net promoting such crimes would be prosecuted in addition to their distribution. For example, displaying writings that promote violence on an individual’s own web pages or social network site would be punishable even if that person was not the writer of the offending copy.
A specific clause in criminal justice legislation outlawing the promotion of racial hatred towards others would be adopted allowing for a maximum punishment of our years’ imprisonment.
This clause could also be applied to such cases encouraging mass destruction or similar severe crimes against human rights, murder and terrorist-related killings.
So called hate crimes against a person on the grounds of colour, place of birth, faith, sexual orientation or disability would fall under the same clause.
Commenting on the government’s proposals, which would bring Finland into line with EU policy, Minister of Justice, Tuija Brax, said social network sites such as Facebook were no different from any garden fence or letters' column when promoting racial hatred.
YLE
http://yle.fi/uutiset/news/2010/12/laws_governing_racial_and_hate_crimes_to_be_toughe ned_2225974.html