Timeline for Does EU freedom of speech allow a license plate that taunts a political party?
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| Aug 22, 2018 at 21:08 | vote | accept | Alexei | ||
| Aug 19, 2018 at 3:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackPolitics/status/1031013238610251776 | ||
| Aug 17, 2018 at 21:52 | comment | added | user |
Borderline related: I've heard about someone who was denied a Swedish vanity license plate 666 ("the number of the beast"), but 29A was approved. As any programmers' calculator should be able to tell you, 29A in hexadecimal (base 16) is 666 in decimal (base 10).
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| Aug 17, 2018 at 21:05 | comment | added | 264 champagne bottles on ice | It looks like an unwarranted question to ask just based on that case. Probably the STA has no clue what that means in Romanian, due to lack of sufficient resources to discover the meaning of the plate before issuing it. Is there evidence they kept the license after someone complained? A better question to ask based on that is whether the EU countries usually check for the meaning of license plates in all members' states languages. (I bet they don't except for the widely spoken languages, and even that I suspect it's more by luck [knowledgeable employees] than design.) | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 20:30 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 17, 2018 at 18:29 | comment | added | Alexei | @agc - yes, the plate was approved, but the owner is required to have the regular plates in the car along with all the papers that accompany both pairs of plates. There was no trouble with the policy until the owner entered Romania where the policy could understand the meaning of those 7 characters. Their validity was also confirmed by Sweden Embassy, although it mentioned that receiving country can decide to not allow them. | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 18:02 | comment | added | agc | It's clear that somebody wanted a “MUIE PSD” plate, but after that it's fuzzy. Please specify whether the plate “MUIE PSD” was approved by the STA or not, and if it was approved, whether or not the plate ran into trouble with the police. Please also specify which nation's police. | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 17:48 | history | edited | agc | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Clarified one bit, added URL.
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| Aug 17, 2018 at 17:41 | history | edited | agc |
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| Aug 17, 2018 at 16:47 | answer | added | James K | timeline score: 5 | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 16:34 | comment | added | chirlu | @DJohnM: In Sweden, you normally get plates of the pattern ABC-123 at random. You can, however, get an individual plate of up to seven letters for a hefty fee (which goes to traffic security research). While it’s technically not a sell, the letter combination stays with the person who registered it and can even be transferred to a different car of the same owner. | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 16:24 | comment | added | DJohnM | Is the word "bought" correct in this instance? In whom does ownership of the license plate reside? | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 15:42 | comment | added | Philipp♦ | If you are asking about Romanian laws which protect freedom of speech, then this might be more of a law question. If you are asking about freedom of speech in general, then this question is primarily opinion-based because there is no globally accepted consensus on what freedom of speech actually means. | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 15:35 | comment | added | Alexei | @origimbo - any EU country perspective is interesting for me. | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 15:34 | answer | added | hszmv | timeline score: 12 | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 15:33 | comment | added | origimbo | Do you mean specifically in terms of Romanian (or some other) law? If not, then this may be difficult to answer in a non-opinion based way. | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 15:20 | history | asked | Alexei | CC BY-SA 4.0 |