Policing Internet For Hatred? Even The Adjudicator Doubts It!

Here's a great National Post Editorial:

Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT) adjudicator Athanasios Hadjis performed a valuable service on Monday by raising doubts about whether there is any purpose in having agencies like his police the Internet for hatred. Mr. Hadjis is currently refereeing a controversial Charter of Rights battle between far-right Web portal operator Marc Lemire and activist Richard Warman. It is all part of a complaint first launched by Mr. Warman as long ago as 2003 -- which goes to show why Mr. Hadjis may be experiencing some skepticism, nay, even exasperation, over the possibility of battling Web hate by means of a dilatory, complaint-driven, quasi-judicial, often-Kafkaesque bureaucratic procedure.

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So even the CHRT adjudicator doubts whether using freedom snatching commissions against people who says something controversial on the internet is the way to go. Hopefully this is another step towards dismantling the Orwellian tribunals. Let the issues involving human rights and constitutional freedoms be settled in the court of law, not in a quasi-judiciary tribunals with 100% conviction rate, where truth is not a defense.