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by npiazza83 3316 days ago
The courts and laws are established to determine appropriate action in such a case.

Proving real damage to the BBC due to what they perceive to be "hate speech" is difficult.

The BBC has put in their terms that they reserve the right to cause real financial harm to those they perceive to be writing "hate speech".

I can put in my contract that I reserve the right to murder you, and if you sign it I'm still going to jail. Such is the case here. The BBC just made themselves look like idiots for no enforceable reason.

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If telling your ISP about something you sent causes you "real financial harm", perhaps you shouldn't have sent it. Perhaps you are responsible for the "real financial harm" to yourself.
The law is designed to cover cases you might not immediately think of. Protecting men/women from "legal" harassing communication in the work place, protecting homosexual couples from discrimination, etc. eliminating such protections to stick it to nazis is, to put it mildly, naive