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• FREEDOM: TO BE FREE, TO BE DUMB?!?!

  Published: June 21, 2007, 6:45 am

  Tags: Bizarre, Democracy, Freedom, Freedom Of Speech, Sabina England, Weird

  shouldn’t deny my own freedom of speech.   I don’t wear hijab, nor do I wish to. But I do want other women to have  the choice, the right to wear hijab. Total freedom. So if I reject the hijab,  does it make me a whore, an unclean slut, who must be shielded away from the eyes of poor unsuspecting males! Freedom to

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• More Yahoo! China documents emerge

  Published: July 31, 2007, 6:12 am

  Tags: China, Corporate Responsibility, Freedom Of Speech, Human Rights

  there. He concludes: If freedom of speech on the Chinese Internet is ever to come about, it will not be handed over to them because of U.S. Congressional actions against American corporations.  The Chinese people will fight and obtain that freedom for themselves through struggling on local issues.  Those issues may be seemingly

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• Shi Tao's case: Yahoo! knew more than they claimed

  Published: July 29, 2007, 4:18 am

  Tags: China, Corporate Responsibility, Freedom Of Speech, Human Rights, Yahoo

  Yahoo! executives say one thing in public, an official Chinese document says something else. Oops. I just discovered today that the Dui Hua Foundation, which does excellent, low-key work on Chinese human rights issues, has a blog. Last week they posted a full English translation (PDF) of a document that has surfaced recently on the web: the

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• Jimmy Wales: Google's China mistake

  Published: August 3, 2007, 9:29 pm

  Tags: China, Corporate Responsibility, Freedom Of Speech, Wikipedia

  Wikipedia founder Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales says that Wikia, his new for-profit wiki and search engine company, will never censor its content or compromise its users the way Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and others have done in China. In Taipei at Wikimania, the annual world conference for people who work on Wikipedia and all its associated

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• Taslima Nasreen, Poet, Attacked in India: Men Attack Her; Other Men Try to Sheild Her

  Published: August 10, 2007, 5:06 pm

  Tags: Endangered Species, Religion, Freedom Of Speech, India, Sexism, Crime, Social Commentary, Muslims, Women S Issues, Mass Murder, Moral Decline, Radical Islam, Women, Bangladesh, Death, Human Rights, Moral Values, Domestic Surveillance, Pornography

  I wrote on TMV about Taslima, a poet and doctor, against whom a fatwa to behead her had been called ….for she dared to write poetry about “honor killings”; she was imprisoned for writing about women taken to the stadium and stoned to death while the mullahs present were laughing. Read on TMV May 18, 2007: Four Arrested In Honor

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• A Sign Of Times

  Published: August 12, 2007, 12:41 am

  Tags: Domestic Issues Politics Freedom Of Speech Religion

  This not only illustrates the absurd double standards some in our society apply to Islam and Christianity, but also the absurdity of hate crimes in general.  After all, a book in a toilet is just a book in a toilet regardless of which book it is.  It may be art to some, but misdemeanor vandalism at worse. Just as an assault is an

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• S.F. Youth Hate Free Speech

  Published: August 17, 2007, 8:15 pm

  Tags: Freedom Of Speech

  The protest was against Michael Savage and I am no fan of his more extreme ideas; but this was really about suppressing Free Political Speech on radio.

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• Ron Paul at Google

  Published: August 21, 2007, 7:07 am

  Tags: Religion Economy Technology Guns Military Freedom Of Speech Education Abortion War On Terror Nanny State Politics

  Hello sayanythingbloggers I've been following this blog for a while now and I've enjoyed reading the posts of the many individualist, capitalist, constitutionalist mindsets contributing. I'd like to hear what you all have to say about Ron Paul. This video taken at Google provides an incredible introduction to the kind of man and policies of

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• Chinese bloggers thumb their noses at "self discipline"

  Published: August 27, 2007, 2:17 pm

  Tags: Censorship, China, Corporate Responsibility, Freedom Of Speech, Human Rights, Weblogs

  to global affronts to freedom of speech and abuses by governments around the world (including the U.S. government) against people who say things those governments don't like. However, the last time I blogged about a story that came from a RWB statement without separately checking the original Chinese documents, Roland Soong made me look

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• Full legal documents: Yahoo!'s asks court to dismiss jailed Chinese dissidents' lawsuit

  Published: August 28, 2007, 12:40 pm

  Tags: China, Corporate Responsibility, Freedom Of Speech, Human Rights, Law, Yahoo

  Yesterday Yahoo! filed a request to dismiss the U.S. lawsuit against it for its role in the jailing of Chinese dissidents Wang Xiaoning, Shi Tao and others. As the Washington Post reports: Yahoo acknowledged releasing personal user information about the writers to the Chinese government, but said it had to comply with the country's lawful request

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• Oiwan Lam's indecency case: demanding more transparency

  Published: August 30, 2007, 1:37 pm

  Tags: Censorship, Freedom Of Speech, Hong Kong, Oiwan

  The good folks at the Hong Kong-based web company Outblaze have posted a hilarious cartoon (above - click through to their website for a larger version) accompanied by a cleverly written blog post about Oiwan Lam's indecency case (Remember the case of the blogger who is facing a possible jail sentence and/or a crippling fine because she

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• The Latest "Outrage" from the Middle East

  Published: September 2, 2007, 7:10 pm

  Tags: Oic, Sweden, Freedom Of Speech, Iran, Pakistan, Islamists, Egypt

  Muslim world suggesting that freedom of speech should be revoked when they disagree with that speech. They simply don't agree that freedom of expression, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press are inalienable human rights that never should be removed.I'm not going to argue about whether the drawing is offensive. You can make that decision

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• "Great Firewall" surrounds "Summer Davos" in Dalian

  Published: September 5, 2007, 10:23 pm

  Tags: Censorship, China, Freedom Of Speech

  Done with my teaching duties for the week, I'm heading up to Dalian from Hong Kong this afternoon to catch the rest of the World Economic Forum's "Summer Davos" in China's north-eastern city of Dalian. My friends Kaiser and Thomas have already been blogging from there. Apparently wireless internet connection is working in the

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• Today's Motivational Video - The B-52

  Published: September 7, 2007, 6:21 am

  Tags: Domestic Issues War On Terror North Dakota News Freedom Of Speech Military Guns Technology

  I haven’t posted a motivational video in some time, and in light of recent events, I thought that people should get some B-52 lovin’.  As far as aircraft, this isn’t as cool as the AH-64 or the A-10, but it’s still fun AND GETS THE JOB DONE. mmmm… US military blowing schtuff up… This video would

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• Freedom of Speech Does Not Equal Freedom from Offense

  Published: September 7, 2007, 5:36 pm

  Tags: Sweden, Freedom Of Speech, Egypt

  absolutely no respect for freedom of speech. They have no problem with freedom of speech so long as they like that speech. They want Islam to be given a special exception to freedom of speech, so that no one is ever allowed to criticize it.A statement by the Egyptian ambassador to Sweden illustrates this authoritarian hypersensitivity. Story

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