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Jan Axelsson, founder of Flashback Media Group. He was previously convicted of defamation in 1999, after publishing the names of convicted sex offenders.
In Sweden, it’s not just social media that is subjected to mass censorship – they will come after tiny web forums.
Jan Axelsson, founder of the online forum Flashback, has been charged with violating the law on liability for electronic bulletin boards – for failing to delete twelve posts that allegedly constitute the criminal offence of incitement to racial hatred. He himself denies any wrongdoing.
“Jan Axelsson has, through gross negligence, failed to remove messages that appear to contain incitement against ethnic groups from the site flashback.org, for which he is the provider. This happened on twelve occasions during the period from October 30, 2022 to February 28, 2023 at an unknown location”, prosecutor Lucas Eriksson said in the summons filed with the Stockholm District Court.
The location was the internet.
The comments Axelsson is accused of making refer to various immigrant groups and describe them in a crude, hostile or derisive manner – but Axelsson and his lawyer, Nils Hillert, say it is highly questionable whether some of them are punishable at all. The lawyer also points out that his client did not commit a crime and deleted the posts when he was made aware of them – in accordance with the law.
“Jan Axelsson first questions whether all the posts in question can objectively be considered incitement to racial hatred”, the lawyer writes in a reminder, pointing to previous rulings that “criminalization should not constitute an obstacle to freedom of expression or a threat to the free formation of opinion” and that “statements that are best responded to or corrected through free and open debate should not be covered by the legislation”.
Yeah, that never made any sense.
If you have freedom of opinion, you have freedom to insult racial groups. But a lot of European countries have both laws at the same time. So you say something on the internet, then you just go to court and say “this is my opinion” and they either agree it’s your opinion or say it’s not really your opinion and you just said it to “incite hatred.”
If it is both your opinion and also it incites hatred, it’s not clear what happens. I think they have to determine it is either one or the other.
This isn’t serious.
The earlier ruling also stated that the law on incitement to hatred “must be interpreted restrictively” and that “fundamental rights and freedoms must be taken into account” and that it “must not go so far as to constitute a threat to the freedom of expression” – especially in political matters.
“In light of the current legal situation, far from all of the posts complained of could be considered blatant incitement to racial hatred”, the lawyer adds, pointing out that there is a system in place whereby users can report posts deemed to violate the law to the forum’s moderators, who then decide whether they should be deleted.
“The current posts have never been reported to Jan Axelsson or the moderators. The complainant, for unclear reasons, chose to file a police report instead of reporting the posts to Flashback. The report was also accompanied by a lot of information about Flashback, the forum, Jan Axelsson and his relatives, which is directly false”, it continues.
There is really no reason to even live in these countries anymore.
Sweden is close to Russia. Just try and see if they’ll let you move there.
You can’t do anything in a Western country, other than masturbate and play video games. And the video games are not even good.
The forum’s motto is “freedom of speech for real”
