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Malaysia Uses Anti-Terrorism Laws To Stop Bloggers
Academiphiliac writes to mention the BBC reported in an article this morning that the Malaysian government may start using tough anti-terror laws to censor bloggers who insult either Islam or the country's king. "The move comes as one of Malaysia's leading online commentators has been questioned by police following a complaint by the main governing party. The new rules would allow a suspect to be detained indefinitely, without being charged or put on trial. But officials insist the law is not intended to strangle internet freedom."
The problem with insulting Islam is...
That it's far too easy to do!
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
if I post a cartoon of me fucking Mohammed up the arse, that makes me a terrorist?
No, that makes you gay.
In case you were confused about that.
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Two things immediately come to mind. Was this consensual? And were you wearing a Condom?
"I Love All the World's People" - John Lennon
... I'd better not go to Malaysia. Ever. But I believe in free speech, damnit.
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And the most important question - Are you doing it through a hole in a sheet?
Missiles are overkill. Some guy with a deer rifle can cover the president for life scenario.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
At least in Britain, you can make fun of the Queen, her inbred cheating son, and the Church of England. (Damn, who was that comic, years ago, missing a finger, used to do all sorts of jokes about it?)
At least in the U.S., you can make fun of Bushy, Dick "No, not in the face!" Cheney, Pinch Faced Pelosi, The Baptists, Mormons, and Stogey Boy Clinton.
At least in Canada, you can make fun of...eh, oh sorry, I'm being informed by the Canadian Ministry of Nicey Nice that it is not tolerated to make fun of anyone except those who are intolerant...oh, wait, no, that's not allowed either.
Well, at least we have the first two.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong fix.
Reminds me of an 80s joke....
In the USA, you can come before the White House and shout curses against Ronald Reagan.
In the USSR, you can come before the Kremlin and shout curses against Ronald Reagan.
Circumcision is child abuse.
"The new rules would allow a suspect to be detained indefinitely, without being charged or put on trial."
It's a good thing America doesn't do anything like that, right?
Oh, wait.
"My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right." --Senator Carl Schurz (1872)
And the closest thing we have to a Praetorian Guard, the Secret Service is not large enough to pull off a coop.
Probably because they're too chicken.
I live ze unknown. I love ze unknown. I am ze unknown.
Governor Tarkin: The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I have just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.
General Tagge: But that's impossible. How will the Emperor maintain control without the bureaucracy?
Governor Tarkin: The regional governors now have direct control over their territories. Fear will keep the local systems in line. Fear of this battle station.
or something like that...