Uganda bars media from outing gays

[spacial]

A Ugandan High Court judge has ruled that media companies in the country should not publish the identities of people they say are homosexuals.

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"The judge granted a permanent injunction against Rolling Stone from publishing these names," lawyer John Francis Onyango, who represented the three gay rights campaigners who brought the case, told AFP.

"But the ruling went beyond these applicants and extended to all media," he added.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12107596


Some common sense at last.

[tekla]

Yeah, if you don't like what people say prohibit them from saying it.  I'm sure Rolling Stone is going to be missing both those subscriptions from Uganda.

[spacial]

Think you'll find it's a bit more serious than that Tekla.

Inciting people to harm others is generally a crime in any civilised society.

I realise, as an American, you've been raised with the notion of freedom of speech. While a commendable ideal, that is all it really is, in the US and elsewhere.

[tekla]

I just know that laws that protect a group one day are frequently turned against them in the long run.  If we can stop people from naming gays, why not just stop all stuff about gays anyway.  Its for sure that the MAJORITY of people would just as soon never hear it again.  So why not just stop all the stuff about gays - positive and negative.  That would protect everyone.  Right?

Back in the early 70s many feminists in the US worked for stronger porno laws, laws that among other things were almost immediately used to ban Our Bodies Ourselves for graphic sexual content.