Sunday, October 4, 2009

U.S. Co-Sponsors Anti-Free Speech Resolution At U.N.

The U.N. Human Rights Council approved a resolution cosponsored by the U.S. and Egypt. UCLA Professor of Law Eugene Volokh is "worried that it might be a step backward for our own constitutional rights, because of what seems to be the U.S. endorsement of the suppression of 'any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence' and possibly of 'negative stereotyping of religions and racial groups.'"

Read the full piece at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eugene-volokh/is-the-obama-administrati_b_307132.htmlhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/eugene-volokh/is-the-obama-administrati_b_307132.html

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