This lesson contains 11 slides, with interactive quiz and text slides.
Lesson duration is: 60 min
Items in this lesson
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In the news
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Today's Lesson
Freedom and its limits
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Freedom of press - censorship
Calls to violence against minorities, unfounded insults, sharing classified information and owning and spreading child pronography is forbidden by law for the media.
Government is nto allowed to censor media, except in cases of classified state information.
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Blasphemy
In The Netherlands it was forbidden to insult gods up to 2014, now the law states that nobody can be insulted or discriminated against based on their religion, race or lifestyle
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Holocaust denial
In The Netherlands it is a criminal offense to deny the holocaust. Due to the facts of the Second World War being what they are, it cannot be denied. It is seen as a criminal offense and antisemitism.
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Homofobia
Homofobia is not punishable by law. It is also not forbidden to be denigrating about LGBTQ+. But discrimination based on sexual preference or calls to violence against LGBTQ+ are forbidden.
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Limits
Do you have the right to call to violence against peopel with a different religion?
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Limits
Does a christian or islamic school have the right to not hire a homosexual teacher due to their sexuality?
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Limits
Are you allowed to say ugly things about refugees that are blatantly untrue, but due to which others will see them as fortune seekers?
Lesson duration is: 60 min
