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Israel's Supreme Court Says Yes To Internet Anonymity
jonklinger writes "The Israeli Supreme Court ruled this week that there is no civil procedure to reveal the identity of users behind an IP address, and that until such procedure shall be legislated, all internet postings, even tortious, may remain anonymous. The 69-page decision acknowledges the right to privacy and makes internet anonymity de facto a constitutional right in Israel. Justice Rivlin noted that revealing a person behind an IP address is 'an attempt to harness, prior to a legal proceeding, the justice system and a third party in order to conduct an inquiry which will lead to the revealing of a person committing a tort so that a civil suit could be filed against him.'"
Oh, really? Which history books have you been reading? Have you ever visited the parts of Jaffa and Jerusalem (to name but two places) where Arab properties were stolen? Have you visited agricultural areas where land was simply grabbed from Arab farmers who had owned and worked it for many generations? A clean slate indeed!
Yeh, it's fully justifiable to commit war crimes...
Preserving rights for their own country while destroying the lives of the Palestinians, sounds like the same rhetoric we've always heard. From what I can gather, the Israelis themselves are getting kind of fed up with this bullshit.
FYI, it is on topic - can't praise someone's steps forward without discussing their steps backward.
Of course you fail to mention how Israeli-Arab run municipalities and districts are in dire-debts because of the corruptions of the leaders they chose for themselves.
It is the universe that makes fun of us all.
I agree that Jaffa, Akko and parts of Jerusalem have harmonious mixed populations. And, yes, some Arabs who fled the country after the declaration of the state of Isreal did leave properties empty. But there are so many cases of blatantly illegal land-grabs and quasi-legal evictions that they will be a permanent stain on Israel's reputation.
Israel long lost any claim on morality. In your conflict you repeatedly used a superior military to kill children, women and innocents. A reply where you totally and completely fail to mention the existence of the atrocities you committed, is nothing more than propaganda from someone with a pitch dark soul. You, sir, and your upmodding fans of the dark side, are outrageous. Now go and illegally assassinate an opponent in another country with stolen identities. I know it makes you feel good about yourselves. You know, if two sides fight and killed each others babies, it's almost impossible to break out of. But just shut up instead of ignoring what you did and are doing, and loudly proclaiming your obligatory relief units. A loud mouth is the last thing I expect from a person like you. STFU. We don't like you. No one who's outside this conflict likes you. Israel is filled with creeps. And no, we're not picking sides. It is not mutually exclusive.
http://qumsiyeh.org/thecurrentuntenablesituation/
I remember, among other things, video and dicsussions of the Golan heights, in which Israeli soldiers drove around in jeeps, with loudspeakers blaring insults at the inhabitants. Stupid kids would come out and throw rocks at the jeeps, and the soldiers would fire back with small arms and machine guns.
Go ahead, google around, there are many many cases like that. You don't even have to visit "anti-semitic" sites to find the stories. The BBC carries them.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2102081.stm
Bottom line, Israel, as a nation, places no value on the life of an Arab, or a Moslem. If Israel DID value the lives of Moslems and/or Arabs, they could have reached some kind of a compromise years ago, and found peace.
How 'bout those "settlements". One group or another of Israelis move in, bulldoze everything that belongs to Arabs, build their own village, fortify it, and presents a fait accompli to the world, "Hey, we have a village, and the presence of Arabs is prohibited. Arabs will be shot on sight!"
Granted, the government doesn't always "approve" of those settlements - but the government does little to nothing to discourage them.
Try the same thing here in the US. As much as we've abused the Native Americans over the last 500 years, today you WILL NOT get away with appropriating Indian lands.
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
Yes, national socialist, who rounded up communists and trade union members.
They certainly weren't communists and they weren't total socialists either, but both socially and economically, they overally stood on the left and not the right (unlike Hirohito's state or Mussolini's fascists).
That being said, I was more talking about contemporary Nazi parties which tend to be much further on the left than their predecessors, taking "national socialist" quite literally.
A good education is a bit like a STD - it makes you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and gives you a desire to spread it.
We were not discussing other countries. And thanks for your ad hominem "prejudice" remark. No, if they kill civilians and I note that, it's not prejudice. What a bore, that "argument". Too bad you did not have any counter point whatsoever. This and your troll modding buddies, we are not impressed by you folks supporting this state of terror any longer, wherever you are, you know that do you? It only makes you look worse and worse and worse, the aggressive reactions to critics which are always played to the man. You are a coward, just like your silent modding buddies. If you were anything remotely resembling a man of honor, go tell your argument to a civilian who lost his or her entire family because your side doesn't care about the collateral damage. Tell her she is prejudiced. The only bit of care I have left for Israel is that I pity them deeply for being so totally deformed by their war. FUBR. There is only hope for their children.