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• ‘Let’s talk about Hulu …’

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 455
  p2pnet news view P2P | TV:- “I am, I feel, often a couple of steps behind mass culture,” says Jenna McWilliams, an educational researcher for project new media literacies and a Guardian online columnist. She says it on her sleeping alone and starting out early blog where she also says, “I studied creative ...
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• Vietnam Denies US Censorship Allegations

  
  RFA Unplugged — Authority: 118
   Vietnam’s Deputy Information Minister this week hit back at United State’s charges it censors internet content and spies on IT users.The US condemnation came in a House Resolution sponsored by Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez in late October.Rep Sanchez told the House the Vietnamese Government had created an ...
  4 days ago

• Judge OKs Challenge to Patents on Human Genes

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 125
  A federal judge ruled Monday that a lawsuit can move forward against the Patent and Trademark Office and the research company that was awarded exclusive rights to human genes known to detect early signs of breast and ovarian cancer.More Articles
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• Spencer: Caesar Obama

  
  Jihad Watch — Authority: 743
  In my column in Front Page today I discuss the latest ridiculous encomium being heaped upon the President, and its ominous implications. The chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Rocco Landesman, provoked ridicule when he said last week that "Barack Obama is the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar." ...
  1 week ago

• Britain’s criminal libel and sedition law

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 647
  The House of Lords will back its long-overdue abolition. [ Guardian ] Tags: free speech , United Kingdom Related posts UK religious insult bill (0) UK free speech, cont’d (4) U.K.: Calling Scientology a “cult” (2) Speechcrime in the UK, cont’d (0) September 2 roundup (2)
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• “Troubling signals on free speech”

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 647
  In “a little-publicized October 2 resolution … [the U.S.] State Department joined Islamic nations in adopting language all-too-friendly to censoring speech that some religions and races find offensive, notes Stuart Taylor, Jr.’s new column for National Journal . Legal academics, including some who have gone on ...
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• China puts up Berlin (fire) Wall

  
  RFA Unplugged — Authority: 118
  Twenty years after the Berlin wall fell, signaling the end of communism in East Germany, China has erected an electronic wall to stop its citizens from joining the festivities electronically.The organizers of the Berlin Wall Twitter site intended for it to be used by people wishing to post their memories of the night ...
  1 week ago

• Pastor James David Manning, First Victim Of Obamas "Hate" (Thought) Crimes Law?

  
  Marooned In Marin — Authority: 505
  As you may have heard, Barack Hussein Obama signed the supposed Hate Crimes Bill into law yesterday, which has also been called the "Pedophile Protection Act," as Democrats defeated Republican attempts to strip protection for pedophiles (Gay Patriot).This morning comes news that the flamboyant and vocal Obama ...
  1 week ago

• Islamic countries pushing global "blasphemy" law

  
  Jihad Watch — Authority: 743
  As noted here many times, such a law would criminalize all honest exploration of the Islamic motives and goals of the jihadis, thereby rendering us defenseless against them. What is odd here is that the Christian Science Monitor says that the U.S. is opposing this initiative. That is good news if it is true, but if it ...
  1 week ago

• Methinks he doth not protest too much

  
  Nouslife — Authority: 465
  As a sometimes protester who thinks that it is important we do have the right to protest, Im concerned at some of the things Ive been hearing about the policing of peaceful protest and the collusion of big business with police authorities in what appears to be a political agenda favourable to corporate interests and ...
  1 week ago

• Toronto imam who prayed for destruction of Infidels says that only Misunderstanders of Islam would take offense at that

  
  Jihad Watch — Authority: 743
  Or as the great Shaidle puts it, "Its all YOUR fault for being morons, you stupid infidels!" An update on this story . "Address on niqab not meant to be offensive: Imam," by Charles Lewis in the National Post , October 23 (thanks to Kathy Shaidle ): A Toronto imam said on Friday he did not intend to insult ...
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• EFF Hall of Shame

  
  Ares Vista 2009 — Authority: 139
  p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Some of the web’s most interesting content has been unilaterally yanked with bogus copyright claims and other spurious legal threats. Ain’t that the truth! So today the Electronic Frontier Foundation ( EFF ) is launching its Takedown Hall of Shame. The idea is to call ...
  1 week ago

• Shocker: Hillary Clinton breaks with her boss, denounces "defamation of religion" laws

  
  Jihad Watch — Authority: 743
  Finding courage Obama just had the U.S. at the UN consponsor with Egypt a resolution against inciting religious hatred. But apparently his Secretary of State is not on board, or not completely on board. "Clinton Denounces Proposed Defamation of Religions Policies," by Michelle A. Vu for the Christian Post , ...
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• "Theres a nationwide effort to suppress the identity of the people who were involved in the attacks"

  
  Jihad Watch — Authority: 743
  They were Muslim terrorists. To identify them as such is simply to tell the truth, not to "disparage" an "ethnic group." What ethnicity are Muslims again? Would a plaque reading "murdered by Nazis" on a soldiers grave in 1943 be opposed on the grounds that it would be offensive to Germans? This gingerly political ...
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• Courtney Love Suffers Legal Setback

  
  Tvbot.se — Authority: 164
  Courtney Love is being sued by fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir , whom Courtney found on Etsy.com, for making malicious statements about her on Twitter. A judge has already rejected Courtney’s argument that the suit goes against her right to free speech and apparently Simorangkir has a pretty good chance of winning ...
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• Dom Post on extremism and free speech

  
  Kiwiblog — Authority: 641
  The Dom Post Editorial : Few things are more abhorrent than the extreme Right and those who perpetuate its thuggish philosophies. I always wonder why they are called extreme right, as invariably such groups support protectionism and left-wing economic policies. Take the BNP whose economic policies are: anti ...
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• Raven’s Pounds Fly Away!

  
  Tvbot.se — Authority: 164
  So much for loving the phat! Raven Symone appeared much less of curvy at a United Nations event in NYC on Sunday. Not only did she lose some mayjah weight, but girl is working Dita ’s corset! We hope she can breathe because she’s about ready to tip over!! We can expect someone’s new diet to grace a few tabloid ...
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• European Union set to outlaw objections to Islamic practices

  
  Jihad Watch — Authority: 743
  This would, of course, render us mute and hence defenseless in the face of the advancing jihad -- and that is just what it is designed to do. Free Speech Death Watch Alert: "Objections to Muslim and Homosexual Practices to be Unlawful in Europe - Media MIA," by Paul Belien for Hudson NY , October 26 (thanks to ...
  2 weeks ago

• “Just say no to blasphemy laws”

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 647
  “Perhaps in an effort to rehabilitate the United States’ image? in the Muslim world, the Obama administration has joined? a U.N. effort to restrict religious speech. This country should never sacrifice freedom of expression on the altar of religion.” [ Jonathan Turley, USA Today via Balko ] Tags: Barack ...
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• Military photos of casualties trouble free-speech advocates

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 965
  DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. -- When the first Bush administration banned the media from covering the arrival of the fallen at Dover Air Force Base during the Persian Gulf War nearly 20 years ago, the stated reason was to protect the families privacy.
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