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EFF Looks At How Blasphemy Laws Have Stifled Speech in 2012

Posted by Unknown on from the noodly-appendage dept.

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. Re:A real shame by Chrisq · · Score: 1, Troll

    For a moment there, I thought you were talking about Salman Rushdie, but then I realized that he just wrote an unfunny 'let's stir some shit up' book, not a movie.

    My bad.

    So wait, which one do you think deserved to die again?

    (I think I still have Satanic Verses in the bookshelf somewhere, just that I can't be arsed to crack it open.)

    And so you illustrate the problem. For Muzzies almost anything is blasphemy. being an atheist, holdin a bible study group, or writing a love poem that quotes from the Qur'an. This is why restricting anything that makes the Muzzies riot will end up in us not being able to say anything or express our own beliefs.