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UN Officials Remove Poster Mentioning Chinese Firewall
At a UN-sponsored Internet Governance Forum in Egypt, anti-censorship group Open Net Initiative was startled by a demand from UN officials to remove a poster mentioning Chinese Net censorship. When ONI refused the request, security personnel arrived and took away the poster. The group was promoting a new book, Access Controlled, a survey of Internet censorship, filtering, and online surveillance. A witness said, "The poster was thrown on the floor and we were told to remove it because of the reference to China and Tibet. We refused, and security guards came and removed it. The incident was witnessed by many." Here is a video of the removal.
Yes, I can. Unfortunately, it looks like kdawson can't.
from the can-you-spell-hypocricy dept
Well, someone here obviously cannot...
Posted by kdawson on 23:04 15th November, 2009
That explains it, I guess.
Day's gonna come when those assholes'll a'gonna pay for it big time!
You just watch, fate's gotta way o'tearin' opressors assholes longer than the Chinese wall!
Truth is, we don't know shit. But that doesn't keep /. from bashing the evil UN.
I think we offer them some silks in trade for their minerals as a stopgap, build a wonder in a city on the border to make our culture more tempting, and wait for their cities to pledge allegiance to US.
He's French? Well, that certainly puts everything in perspective.
But the fact that the guy knocked it onto the floor hints that he was a bit of a nutter. Which would point to him not being the absolute representative of the UN.
Wadsworth: Professor Plum, you were once a professor of psychiatry, specializing in helping paranoid and homicidal lunatics suffering from delusions of grandeur.
Professor Plum: Yes, but now I work for the United Nations.
Wadsworth: So, your work has not changed.
Freedom of speech doesn't give you carte blanche to tell lies. If you tell malicious lies about an individual, he or she can sue you for libel. When you deny the Holocaust, you're telling malicious lies that libel the victims, their relatives/descendants and all those who fought against the Nazi regime.
Without laws against Holocaust denial, those who spread such lies can still be sued for libel. This is the better option in my opinion, but it is also arguably a waste of time and money, requiring endless repetition of the evidence of the Holocaust, which is an almost universally accepted historical fact amongst historians and educated individuals.
At the end of the day, people who deny the Holocaust are telling malicious lies that harm others, and such behaviour is not acceptable. Whether it is punished by individual lawsuits or simple legislation makes little difference.
It is a good thing, really. First, a religious symbol isn't speech. Second, religion is a private thing of anyone. No reason to demonstratively exibit it to everyone. And third, a truly secular country doesn't endorce a particular religion. France seems to be a truly secular country to me.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
By the way, I know this because I'm French, I was born in France, and I've lived part of my life in France. Except that you are not right, and I am a french, I have lived there 25+ years. The only point where you are right is that we do not have "freedom of speech" as open and unbound as the US, but we *DO* have a liberty of expression.
If you speech isn't open and unbounded does that make it compact?
...but they've pledged!,
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