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EFF Looks At How Blasphemy Laws Have Stifled Speech in 2012

As part of their 2012 in review series, the EFF takes a look at how blasphemy laws have chilled online speech this year. A "dishonorable mention" goes to YouTube this year: "A dishonorable mention goes to YouTube, which blocked access to the controversial 'Innocence of Muslims' video in Egypt and Libya without government prompting. The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, a group based in Egypt, condemned YouTube's decision."

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  1. I don't think it should be blasphemy by dkleinsc · · Score: 5, Funny

    All I said was that this piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah!

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    1. Re:I don't think it should be blasphemy by sconeu · · Score: 3, Funny

      Nobody is to throw a rock until I blow this whistle... Even if someone says "Jehovah"

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  2. And all-knowing and omnibenevolent, too! by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, infinitely powerful God apparently needs humans to kill off his political enemies. Censoring them ain't no thang.

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  3. Re:Don't Hide Behind "Blasphemy" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    I couldn't care less what that bitch thinks. She's a crack whore race mixer. I haven't talked to that slut in 15 years since she married some dumbass Sambo.

  4. Re:Good luck on this one. by newcastlejon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Considering the UN's liberal agenda of stifling free speech, and the US submitting to trampling over its constitution, we are facing another step closer to an Orwellian dystopia. See where the slippery slopes lead?

    That word doesn't mean what you think it does. I suspect you use it often.

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  5. Wot? by nospam007 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Blasphemy is for wimps. Real men use heresy or apostasy to distinguish themselves from the common infidel.

  6. Flag Dessication Laws by fyngyrz · · Score: 3, Funny

    We do not have a flag desiccation law

    We should, though. Nothing worse than a dry flag, I say.

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