树立科学发展观 提高干部执行力——学习郭声琨新春领导干部寄语有感

广西壮族自治区党委书记郭声琨就贯彻科学发展观，加快广西发展，向全区各级领导干部提出了新的要求和殷切期望。他强调要“善抓机遇，善谋发展”，必须提高各级干部的执行力。     

Symbolic Hate: Intention to Intimidate,Political Ideology,and Group Association

In Virginia v. Black (123 S.Ct. 1536, 2003), the Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment did not bar statutes that prohibit cross burnings in which defendants acted with intention to intimidate others. Using a variety of symbols including cross burnings, swastikas, confederate flags, and skin fists, the current research tested how mock jurors used alternative actor intentions to judge culpability in symbolic hate speech cases. Only partially validating the Court’s assumptions, participants rated guilt certainty highest when they believed the speakers conveyed direct threats, sometimes regardless of whether defendants intended to intimidate others. Further, results showed the level of perceived intimidation only partially mediated the relationship between type of fact pattern and guilt certainty ratings. While alternative intentions did produce different levels of intention to intimidate, path analysis showed that the participants’ ratings of the defendant’s intention to convey a direct threat influenced guilt certainty ratings in all cases. Perceived intimidation levels predicted culpability in only some of the cases and not for cross burning on private property.

塞尔言语行为理论探析

语言哲学是现代西方哲学的一个重要分支。美国当代哲学家塞尔的“言语行为理论”在英美分析哲学界有一定的影响。他强调从使用和交际的角度研究语言的意义,强调把语言当作人类行为的一部分进行研究,强调对语旨行为的结构、类型及其标准进行分析,从而打破了传统的静态研究语言的模式,为现代语言哲学的发展作出了一定的贡献。对其理论进行剖析,有助于我们对语言现象及其本质的理解。     

基本权利的冲突与平衡--对言论自由界限的个案分析

保护公民的基本权利是现代民主与法治国家的重要标志.但是宪法与法律所保护的基本权利发生冲突也时有发生,这也是目前许多国家面临的问题.为了达到基本权利的平衡,必须从国家的经济、政治、文化、伦理、道德等诸多因素出发,进行全面考量.     

网络言论自由的界限

网络言论是言论自由的一种主要表现方式,它具有不同于其他传播媒介的显著特点;网络言论自由的冲突主要表现在两方面:一是网络言论自由与公民权利的冲突;二是网络言论自由与公共管理的冲突;因此,对网络言论亟需进行必要的法律限制。     

论诽谤罪成立之宪法限制

诽谤罪是侵犯名誉权的犯罪,其基本行为方式就是以书面或者口头的形式表达一定的言论,因此诽谤罪的刑法适用必然对作为宪法权利的言论自由权形成一定的限制。同时,言论自由权对于公共权力之监督和民主政治之正常运作具有重要意义,为保障其充分实现,必须对诽谤罪的成立进行合理限制。这种限制是在引入宪法规范和理念的基础上通过对犯罪构成要件作限制解释来实现的。     

学习"七一"讲话把握执政党建设规律

江泽民"七一"讲话,对中国共产党处于和平与发展的时代背景下和社会主义初级阶段的历史方位给予了科学的界定.提出了解决提高党的执政能力和领导水平、提高拒腐防变和抵御风险的能力这两大历史性课题.勾勒了新的伟大工程的系统蓝图--坚持马列主义、毛泽东思想、邓小平理论在全党的指导地位,并在实践中不断丰富和发展,始终以"三个代表"来要求党;从新的实际出发,以改革精神研究和解决党的建设面临的重大理论和现实问题.     

Motives and legacies behind 2008-2009 Hungarian Roma murders and apologies

This research analyzes as hate crimes the 2008–9 Hungarian Roma mass-murders by extreme nationalists. Pertinent questions are: ‘What motivated the Roma Murders?’ and ‘How do these motives intertwine with cultural-historical legacies to affect both the murders and later official apologies?’ In examining motives, the essay shows how cultural myths of an ill-fated nation and collective memory of real historic tragedies made Hungarians receptive to an extreme nationalist ideology that transforms a national vision of tragic fate into a vision of a victorious future (Volksgeist). How Hungarian cultural-historical heritage assigns vulnerability and disability to the Roma is explored, and why assigning the same vulnerability to victims when Hungarians apologize for their complicity in the Roma murders cannot restore social justice. The essay adds to previous research the identification of common dynamics in both the hate crimes and later apologies, demanding that a very specific apology addressed to the Roma–as equal citizens–should follow two apologies that position the Roma as less than equal Hungarians.     

Rethinking the notion of hosting in the aftermath of Delfi: Shifting from liability to responsibility?

Liability of Internet intermediaries for a third-party content is a complex topic, especially with regards to the storage of illegal or harmful postings offered by portals. The E-Commerce Directive offered a liberal framework for handling such cases, provided that a hosting service provider has not played an active role in content management. Being passive turned out to be the key precondition for immunity under safe harbour provisions. Yet, after the Delfi ruling the legal landscape has changed radically. Although the judgment of the Strasbourg tribunal has been dismissed in some jurisdictions as an error or one-off case, the truth is that it took into account acquis communautaire and imposed liability on the news portal, which followed the guidelines of Google France and eBay rulings. Given the lack of predictability of the current legal framework, the aim of this contribution is to offer a deep-dive into the notion of hosting from a technical perspective in order to better understand why Articles 14–15 of the E-Commerce Directive may require a re-examination. It is also submitted that portals and other online service providers relying on a broad construction of safe harbours should be entitled to Good Samaritan protection akin to section 230 of the American Communications Decency Act in order not to hold them liable for being active in fighting hate speech and other forms of illegal and harmful conduct.