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That Link Is Illegal

Posted by timothy on from the so-put-it-on-a-non-school-server dept.

buzzdecafe writes with a snippet from a Declan McCullagh piece on news.com today: "The University of California at San Diego has ordered a student organization to delete hyperlinks to an alleged terrorist Web site, citing the recently enacted USA Patriot Act. School administrators have told the group, called the Che Cafe Collective, that linking to a site supporting the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC) would not be permitted because it violated federal law."

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  1. It's good to see the School is abiding by the law by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What is the news here?

  2. Oh my god! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You mean Fark is a terrorist website?! I never knew :-(

  3. Thanks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I had never heard of FARC, now I have.

    I'll start reading their website daily!

    Censor this baby!

  4. Re:And? by sulli · · Score: 0, Troll

    And they're wrong. So post it somewhere else, end of story.

    --

    sulli
    RTFJ.
  5. Get some PRIORITIES! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The worst terrorist attack in recorded history occurred over a year ago, followed by a Holy War against Islam, and now Israel and the Palestinians as well as India and Pakistan are teetering on the brink of their own war, Argentina is in the midst of a financial crisis, America is considering launching attacks against Somalia and Iraq, and you people have the gall to be discussing Illegal Links???? My *god*, people, GET SOME PRIORITIES!

    The bodies of the thousands of innocent civilians who died (and will die) in these unprecedented events could give a good god damn about Illegal Links, your childish Lego models, your nerf toy guns and whining about the lack of a "fun" workplace, your Everquest/Diablo/D&D fixation, the latest Cowboy Bebop rerun, or any of the other ways you are "getting on with your life" (here's a hint: watching Cowboy Bebop in your jammies and eating a bowl of Shreddies is *not* "getting on with your life"). The souls of the victims are watching in horror as you people squander your finite, precious time on this earth playing video games!

    You people disgust me!

  6. Link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    link

  7. I wouldn't worry about the pictures... by alexhmit01 · · Score: 1, Troll

    I mean, when they are working their Wall Street or Investment Banking jobs in NYC in 1-4 years, they'll have a clean hair cut, wear a suit, etc. If the pictures surface, you won't be able to recognize them!

    The real joke will be if the picture comes out at a dinner party where they're gathered with their friends critizes the Democrats for blocking an initiative to put down those rebels because they have a mutual fund in their 401K that needs to exploit labor there...

    Don't get me wrong, I'm a conservative Republican, I just enjoy laughing at the others that were tree-hugging lefties 3 years ago... :)