Two Anti-Phobia Rulings In Catalonia: Let’s Talk Freedom Of Speech

Yesterday in Catalonia, a court in Cerdanyola del Vallès ruled that a boy should go to prison for 8 months for an anti-Catalan tweet and the Generalitat, the Catalan government, announced that it would fine a Catholic group between 300 and 3000 euros for bringing a bus into Catalonia, which apparently promoted transphobia. In my opinion, both these decisions are grave infringements on our freedom of speech.

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Germanwings plane crash: Racist Twitter trolls make vile jokes over deaths of 150 tragic victims

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/germanwings-plane-crash-racist-twitter-5398965

Primera sentència contra la catalanofòbia a Twitter

http://www.elnacional.cat/ca/societat/catalanofobia-twitter-sentencia_145020_102.html

CataloniaCalling #25 – Catalanophobia, Foreigners and a Threatening Email

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgtsciiIGH4

LGTBIcat rebutja la presència del bus d’Hazte Oír a Catalunya

http://www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/lgtbicat-rebutja-la-presencia-del-bus-dhazte-oir-a-catalunya/

Los Mossos detienen el autobús de Hazte Oír en Martorell y multan a la asociación ultra

http://www.publico.es/sociedad/mossos-detienen-autobus-hazte-oir.html

Kindergarten Cop – Boys have a penis, and girls have a vagina… LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31b_70kzfwQ