Recognizing Hate Speech

[Demonos]

Rather, hate speech is  something that should be dealt with outside of IC laws. We have maintained this same policy with spammers: the delegate or the Auditors are free to ban them, with no laws required. Same goes for admin banning harrassers from the forums or discord. Hate speech, like the aforementioned instances, is something purely OOC. Our law, on the other hand, deals with the IC side of things.

In summary, I do not believe a change in the law is beneficial or required - the delegate and Auditors are free to ban hate speech, as well as spammers, as they always have.

There is no change in law because 1) the custom is already weighted against hate speech 2)there isn't a law recognizing hate speech as okay. What we suggest is publishing a concrete statement in Lazarene active laws that will display our intentions to end the practice. We must stop hate speech. The laws shelter them in their current state. Truly, it is easy to ban puppet nations, yet do they do so for WA nations? Rarely. There must be a policy that recognizes the protection of a person's identity from abusive attack.   

Nobody said that such incidents are to be left to the NS moderation alone. We have our own OOC administration who supersede all IC laws and this falls very much in their domain.

Against.

So let me get this strait, you are against an overt law that recognizes hate speech? Granted, there may be admin but as of now they have done nothing to prevent nations from continuing their hate speech. Their actions, so far, have been to suppress and alert moderators but nations in Lazarus continue to use hate speech. We believe the admin does very little to really combat the practice. It's mostly ignored after the fact.