Federal hate crime laws should haters on the L.G.B.T. forum face Criminal charges ?

Question

I have flagged at least 10 difrent people for violations of terms of service and I belive some postings constitute hate crimes what do think? the postings run the guantlet from condoning the murder of homosexuals to reposting demeaning and derogratory questions over and over cloging our forum. They answer sincere and serious questions with malice and hate and are surely hurting the people who are asking them?
if you agree should Yahoo refer them to the F.B.I.
if they do not is not Yahoo guilty of being an accessory
after the fact?

Answer 1

I am trying to give you an honest, thorough answer and I hope you read it all the way through ...

If someone is violating the terms of service here, then they can lose access to the service as Yahoo Answers is part of a private company. I have not seen these questions, so I can only respond based on what you have written.

As for nasty, hateful answers and prosecution, no they cannot and should not be prosecuted, unless their speech crosses the line into direct criminal threatening OR trying to hire/recruit someone to commit a felony such as inciting someone to murder another human being.

Now, as for "hate crimes." Please show me what a "love" crime is, or even a "like crime."

Giving different punishments for the same exact crime because of the victim's gender, race, ethnicity, marital status, religious beliefs, sexual orientation or the color car they drive is wrong.

If someone stabs me and they stab the woman next to me, should the crimes be treated differently because one of us is a lesbian?

Is a gas station clerk shot during a robbery any less dead than a guy shot for being gay?

Dead is dead and assault is assault. To say that one assault is worse than another because of what was in the perp's head is cruel.

Why cruel? The basis for the idea of "hate crime" laws is that the person who is attacked because of prejudice is wholly innocent and undeserving of the attack.

The underlying implication is that victims of so-called "hate crimes" are MORE innocent than other victims, or more deserving of protection. That because they were ONLY targeted because they were ________ , they would not have been targeted otherwise.

So are other crime victims to blame for what happened to them?
Other crime victims somehow placed themselves deliberately in harm's way? They somehow "asked for it"?

The only thing I could think of which would stand out as needing special prosecution is when a group of people conspire together to systematically attack and terrorize a group of people. Conspiracy should bump penalties up a notch.

Crime is crime and pain is pain. We are all human beings and we should defend each other regardless of any of the silly labels we use. We should feel pain, and anger, and loss for every human life taken--whether it is a child murdered by a father or a man beaten because he asked the wrong person to dance.

Peace.

Answer 2

I believe these people have the right to stay things regardless of how offensive we find them. it's not a crime if you say it just disrespectful and rude. I mean I flag them if I have to but for the most part they are looking for attention so if you ignore them they'll take their crap to a site where people will give them a rise. I think Yahoo should take more responsibility for letting these people make these comments. even if it's having someone scan our post on a daily basis and immediately delete postings that use derogatory terms or are a violation instead of getting us to flag them first. It's kinda like if no one complains then they can be as hateful as they like. I don't think the FBI should be involved until these things result in an actual hate crime, involving violence of one yahoo member against another, until then unfortunately let them speak and just stop listening.

Answer 3

No. While I don't appreciate the haters, they have a constitutional right to say what they want. There are specific terms that we agree to when we sign up for Y/A and you should report any abuse of the forum. Personally I only report people trying to sell something or divert to their own money making website. I just laugh off the answers I disagree with and go on my way. By the way, I'm a Republican... does this make me a bad conservative? Just kidding. Try and lighten up and don't let the morons bother you. Peace.

Answer 4

No. And what a childish notion that is, to want people to be punished by our government for saying words you don't like.


In the U.S., free speech is supposedly revered. You cannot have freedom of speech unless you are willing to protect others right to say what they want. Even if what they say is unpopular, hateful, etc.

Hehe, I haven't made any hate speech, nor have I said anything to questioners that was any more insulting than their questions. nonetheless, you may choose to flag me for abuse. That's actually humorous, but sad too. Sad to think that a presumably gay male doesn't want free speech protected.


I am gay too, btw. You don't have to like everyone's opinions to respect their right to express them. You just have to be mature.


I think people like you are the real haters.


May you come to know the Lord Jesus, and have a peaceful eternity.


edited to add: If you value free speech, then leave the haters alone. They at least keep it from getting boring, and they aren't trying to take away *your* right to say whatever you want. RAMO is wrong. People like you who keep reporting others for abuse when you simply don't like their opinions, will come to be seen as troublemakers by yahoo, regardless of what yahoo says about it. This is because yahoo knows that it is the people like you who are the most likely to sue them. That is common sense.

You will probably percieve this as hateful,but I will say it anyway, because it is true. You sound like a very troubled human being, and overly sensitive. This is possibly a sign of a serious mental/physiological disorder, such as depression. Perhaps you should seek some sort of psychological counseling. There are alot of new things they can do for people like that now. We no longer live in the dark ages of psychology.


Freedom is something that you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.

Answer 5

The First Amendment allows people the right to speak freely, even if they're dopes.
Hate Speech is protected as well.
It's a consequence of discourse.
The appropriate reaction is to flag them and report them to Yahoo.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

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