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Originally posted by shamrock_uk:
The conviction this week of David Irving in Austria (it's not just Germany) for a cool three years for denying the holocaust simply cements our double-standards on the issues of free speech. (and three years?! I would get less than that if I ran someone over in a car...)
As someone who supports the right of free speech, this sentence is all wrong. The man is a historian and has prepared detailed books on the subject - if the issue of the Holocaust is that clear cut then it can't be that hard to do things the old fashioned way and simply discredit his evidence and prove him wrong.
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It'll probably boost the sales of his books...
Anyway, I found this interresting:
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But the author and academic Deborah Lipstadt, who Irving unsuccessfully sued for libel in the UK in 2000 over claims that he was a Holocaust denier, said she was dismayed.
"I am not happy when censorship wins, and I don't believe in winning battles via censorship... The way of fighting Holocaust deniers is with history and with truth," she told the BBC News website.
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