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POPSFree Speech to be Curtailed at Winter Olympics 2010 in Vancouver "The bylaw relaxes rules for Games-related events, limits free expression and speech in public and private spaces, and grants sweeping discretionary powers to Mayor Gregor Robertson and City Manager Penny Ballem to do whatever is "warranted," "necessary or desirable" to ensure the Olympics' "safety and security" and "protection of commercial rights."" This very open to abuse and should be examined cautiously by anyone planning to attend.
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POPSFreedom of Press - Dying? Well, we still have it but it is increasingly digital and recorded. The big worry, I suppose is that it can become easier for governments to "abridge" the rights of free expression and a free press, since they can effectively "pull the plug/wire/air wave" of distribution. This also takes us back to the future. In the 18th and 19th century, newspapers were more like today's blogs and you had to sort through all the biases of the "owner" to figure out what was true. Interesting and challenging.
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POPSFree Speech Mostly used well, sometimes misused and sometimes not used at all.
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POPSIsrael Will Not Let Its Arab Citizens Read Bambi Jeremiah Haber (aka The Magnes Zionist) translates a Haaretz article on Israel banning the importation of books published in Syria and Lebanon, where 80% of Arabic books used by Israeli Arabs are published. For shame.
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POPSemail from Keith Lewis to Prejean Hmmmm... He has big problems with statements thrown at her during the pageant but none with the Playboy offer? This...and the issues with Gov. Palin are about political views and the free expression thereof; especially from females with conservative views.
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POPSTo combat Internet censorship, companies cannot be left to act on their own Reporters Without Borders added: “Internet users have been jailed as a result of requests to US companies made by repressive governments. This happened at least four times with Yahoo!.” Under the new version of the GOFA, US companies operating in repressive countries would be required to keep a record of any request made by the government of that country for the identification of an Internet user, together with a record of the company’s response to the request. This is going to help prevent US companies from unwittingly aiding repressive govts to censor and/or jail dissenters.
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POPSYouTube Blocked In China More: "While most of the rest of the world thinks of the Dalai Lama as a peaceful leader in exile, the official view in China is that he hides behind a facade of non-violence while inciting the same in Tibet, in an attempt to achieve Tibetan independence and restore the old feudal system. They paint the latter as a theocracy with serfdom, diametrically opposed to Democratic Reform. Maybe it’s just me, but I have a hard time believing any talk of “democracy” from a government that suppresses the free expression of ideas. Whom do you believe?"
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POPSUN or HR? The United Nations must start to decide is it really all about the stability of States (as originally intended) or the protection of individuals (its new mandate). Within the vacuum of indecision we allow the power thirsty to thrive.
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POPSThe new, free speech, gatekeepers "Given their clashing and sometimes self-contradictory missions — to obey local laws, repressive or not, and to ensure that information knows no bounds; to do no evil and to be everywhere in a sometimes evil world — Wong and her colleagues at Google seem to be working impressively to put the company’s long-term commitment to free expression above its short-term financial interests. But they won’t be at Google forever, and if history is any guide, they may eventually be replaced with lawyers who are more concerned about corporate profits than about free expression. “We’re at the dawn of a new technology,” Walker told me, referring not simply to Google but also to the many different ways we now interact online. “And when people try to come up with the best metaphors to describe it, all the metaphors run out. We’ve built this spaceship, but we really don’t know where it will take us.”
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