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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Re:Thank god the USA invaded that country

[Watson Ladd]

So what makes Islam different from Judaism? After all the Torah says that we should execute those who plant two crops in the same field or are drunk, enslave those who surrender to us in war, and that slavery is permitted.