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Japan Seeking to Govern Top News Web Sites
RemyBR writes "A Japanese government panel is proposing to govern "influential, widely read news-related sites as newspapers and broadcasting are now regulated."
The panel, set up by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, said Internet service providers (ISPs) should be answerable for breaches of vaguer "minimum regulations" to guard against "illegal and harmful content."
The conservative government, led by the Liberal Democratic Party, or LDP, is seeking to have the new laws passed by Parliament in 2010."
It sounds like a Putin-style media. Free-press is getting harder to find in the world.
Table-ized A.I.
The definition of 'liberal' has changed drastically since its arguable inception in the early 17th century. The development is fascinating and also, to a great degree, logically sound, but that's another issue entirely.
Suffice it to say that the word 'liberal' is not a clearly defined word. John Locke, for example, did not support democracy. Liberalism in its most original form was essentially a philosophy supporting freedom and equality for the people in all forms. Eventually this morphed into liberal socialism; which supported the state providing for individuals so that they had equality of opportunity as well as freedom of opportunity. Modern liberalism, as a rule, continues along this trend, integrating more elements of socialism into it.
"It is possible to commit no errors and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life." -Peak Performance
do you live in the U.S.A? could you imagine the Bush regime making the standards for "verifiable accuracy",
Yes...because all the other administrations have been so much better. Please.
I'll be glad when Bush is out of office. Because then you'll have to blame the lies, cover-ups, and simple fuckups of the government on someone else.
Hell no, I wouldn't want the Bush admin having control over these 'standards'. I wouldn't want any other administration having that power either.
They scream bloody murder about how implementing a human rights treaty they signed over a decade ago will stiffle free speech, but it's fine if they do it. Bigotry is okay, but we can't have any "illegal and harmful content."
Sendou Wave Kick!!
That constitutional ban (actually, the entire constitution) was not achieved by the LDP. In fact, the LDP did not even exist at the time the constitution was written. It was achieved by General MacArthur as SCAP during the occupation. The Diet simply copied his suggestion with some very basic changes and voters approved it.
The LDP has ended up creating a "capitalist development state" that thrives on neo-fascistic cooperation between government and corporate entities, dominate the government largely through being the most general party of any country ever, choose successors (which will by default become president) by the old cliche of smoke-filled back rooms, and historically have promoted both stupid banks and pork projects to prop up uncompetitive businesses with loans that will never be paid off and spending that dramatically overvalued those projects. This both led to and resulted from a massive economic crisis in the 1990s which still has effects. How did they attempt to fix it? They elected a crazy populist Koizumi ten years later who managed to clean most of the economic messes up. It's still a nightmare if you look at it from a Western perspective: corruption and scandal is essentially everywhere. It works, but we shouldn't be too quick to hold the LDP up as a bastion of reform and liberalism because it's basically a party that stands for nothing.