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Internet Censorship's First Death Sentence?

mrogers writes "A journalism student in Afghanistan has been sentenced to death by a Sharia court for downloading and sharing a report criticizing the treatment of women in some Islamic countries. The student was accused of blasphemy and tried without representation. According to Reporters Without Borders, sixty people are currently in jail worldwide for criticizing governments online, fifty of them in China, but this may be the first time someone has been sentenced to death for using the internet. Internet censorship is on the rise worldwide, according to The OpenNet Initiative."

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  1. Re:Thank god the USA invaded that country by OeLeWaPpErKe · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Shame on America for believing that people can change ? That they deserve the second chance that saddam/muslims weren't going to give them ?

    Shame ! Shame ! Shame on America !

    Also please don't refer to it as "sharia". Refer to it as "islam". There is NO POINT where islam stops and sharia begins. The two are one and the same.

  2. You suck (virtually) by towsonu2003 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Didn't you people "liberate" that country a few years ago?

  3. Re:1st censorship death sentence by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "A journalism student in Afghanistan has been sentenced to death by a Sharia court for downloading and sharing a report criticizing the treatment of women in some Islamic countries."

    Those up-ity women deserve this. Now they are being critical of the rightful and proper judgment of men. Here is another example of a women, in this case, doing research, and educating others!

    Women shouldn't be allowed to read or use computers, after all they only have one purpose.

  4. But it is a peaceful religion!!! by p51d007 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Coming to a country near you...unless the wimps of the would start squishing these morons like the pigs they are. As a matter of fact, take a page from General Pershing and do what he did. Line up about 50 of them. Dip bullets in pig blood. Execute all but one. Take the bodies, toss then into a common grave, pour pig blood & pig body parts on them, cover them up (while the one you let live watches). Let the only survivor go......they did that in the late 1919's era.......NOT ONE more act of terrorism for a long time.

  5. Re:This is OUR fault. WE did this. by c6gunner · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I don't understand.
    That much is obvious. What a great way to end a clueless rant.
  6. Re:1st censorship death sentence by Captain+Splendid · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Congratulations! Instead of responding to the substance of my post, you parsed it, contended definition, and offered a pointless quote all while bringing nothing to the conversation. It's thanks to mindless, blinkered centrists such as yourself that we're still arguing the fucking meaning of what some scumbucket politician said instead of nailing him to the cross for abuse of power.

    You think you're so clever, with your moderate positions, never once realizing that this is real life, not some kind of obscure documentary that needs to be overanalyzed from a safe, objective distance.

    You freakish fucks make me puke.

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    Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
  7. Re:literally two wolves? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    look up IDIOM... ass. It's part of the english language.

  8. Re:1st censorship death sentence by IgnoramusMaximus · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What c6gunner really meant was:

    I am an Albertan "cowboy", one of those "self-made men" who thanks to my own great wit and fortitude with my Winchester managed to arrange for a great pile of crude oil to appear under the Albertan sands. And wouldn't you believe?! Those thieves, those do-nothing, good-for-nothing lazies in them Toronto and Vancouver, they want a piece of MY, MY I SAY! oil!!! The audacity!! The hutzpa!! Who do they think they are?! Sure, when Alberta was in financial shit for most its history, those turkeys paid up, but that does not count!. Becase they, unlike me, are not true, red-blooded, raw-meat eating, self-made men like me! So there!

    Or and they are not part of that Western culture thing. They are like Arab and Chinese and Russian or some such, why what was the last time anyone like spoke the God's own language, English in Toronto?!

    Hamas Terrorists. All of them!

    And as soon as my Free Alberta Militia membership count exceeds 3 (well two, not counting my cousin) we will like stage an armed revolt and be joined by all them millions of Albertans on our way to Freedom! As the 51st state of the True And Only Country, the God-chosen USofA.

    And then onto wars of Freedom, everywhere! Bomb them heathens in Afghanistan, level Iraq (to liberate them), blow up Iran (to emancipate them) and then onto France for being the "surrender monkeys".

    And then the world will see us for what we are, lovers of Western virtues and abhorers of barbarism!

    ... I am sure they will excuse us of that "collateral damage" and a that wee bit of "waterboarding" - it was all in a "good" cause of our own self-absorbed dick wagging after all, no? Everyone in "western civilization" would surely excuse that! No? Its not like some depraved "tolerance" thing or some horrid such! Why who ever Righteously Smited anyone with "tolerance"?! Even once?! Just once!!!

    Oh and did I mention that those insidious Pinko-commie-islamo-nisto-femi-nazi Torontonians are in the depths of their depravity conspiring to pollute our precious bodily fluids?! I bet you did not ...