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used to be free speech...
It's a sad death of an era...
Free speech, actually. You might want to remember this, as it won't last much longer... especially here in Canada.
Cherry was a classic case. (he's a mouthy hockey coach on th CBC) One mention of a player being french and useless and BAM.. a 5 second delay slapped on him so they could STOP any of that nonsense from ever getting out again.
It was offensive, eh? Can't let THAT happen.
Tamil.com got pulled off the nets... they were terrorists. (along with ALMOST any dissenting opinion. from the ruling parties PC platform)
Pulled. Gone. So were gay ebullition boards.... and a few other things. child-porn, gambling, trading information, spam.... STILL proliferate.
libel laws got applied to blogs... including senators who forged their resumes and had THAT news promptly pulled off the air, blogs and public consumption.
Hate-literature restrictions got applied to free thought. (ask any neo-Nazi. they were first. But ask a Palestinian too, because they weren't last.)
Take-down notices were enforced without notice. DRM. Youtube.
first complaint extermination, no appeal, facebook.
libel laws in the (private) living room, ala taped conversations (BC case)
trade-mark laws being used to shut down parody cases. (can-west's latest effort to squash parody.)
Air farce going off the air... their last show was friday. (dec 19th /08 ), another sad day for free speech, comedy and political satire.
Fair comment , free speech, and an open society?
Not for long. Not as long as their's money to be made in hate.
the anatomy of human destructiveness (Eric Fromm) come to mind.. Those not getting their satisfactions from the higher levels of creativity turn instead to the drama of destruction.
Idle hands being the devils play-ground, etc...
Onna practical political level, hate is simple enough for anyone to do, and you can make people think it's work, too.
Free speech, actually. You might want to remember this, as it won't last much longer... especially here in Canada.
Cherry was a classic case. (he's a mouthy hockey coach on th CBC) One mention of a player being french and useless and BAM.. a 5 second delay slapped on him so they could STOP any of that nonsense from ever getting out again.
It was offensive, eh? Can't let THAT happen.
Tamil.com got pulled off the nets... they were terrorists. (along with ALMOST any dissenting opinion. from the ruling parties PC platform)
Pulled. Gone. So were gay ebullition boards.... and a few other things. child-porn, gambling, trading information, spam.... STILL proliferate.
libel laws got applied to blogs... including senators who forged their resumes and had THAT news promptly pulled off the air, blogs and public consumption.
Hate-literature restrictions got applied to free thought. (ask any neo-Nazi. they were first. But ask a Palestinian too, because they weren't last.)
Take-down notices were enforced without notice. DRM. Youtube.
first complaint extermination, no appeal, facebook.
libel laws in the (private) living room, ala taped conversations (BC case)
trade-mark laws being used to shut down parody cases. (can-west's latest effort to squash parody.)
Air farce going off the air... their last show was friday. (dec 19th /08 ), another sad day for free speech, comedy and political satire.
Fair comment , free speech, and an open society?
Not for long. Not as long as their's money to be made in hate.
the anatomy of human destructiveness (Eric Fromm) come to mind.. Those not getting their satisfactions from the higher levels of creativity turn instead to the drama of destruction.
Idle hands being the devils play-ground, etc...
Onna practical political level, hate is simple enough for anyone to do, and you can make people think it's work, too.
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Comment by pat donovan on December 21, 2008 at 1:04am -
big brother is here to help... with hunchbacks (psy profilese) on web 2.0
yah. newspapers are dying too...
pat
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Comment by pat donovan on December 21, 2008 at 1:06am
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Michael Connell died in a plane crash last night. He was a key witness in the Ohio election fraud case that reporting on. More importantly, however, he had information that he was ready to share.
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Comment by pat donovan on December 21, 2008 at 1:25am
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I don't think these clowns can of run a hotdog stand... and we have enough problems to smother anyone.
pat
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Comment by pat donovan on December 21, 2008 at 1:58am
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just another brick in the wall....
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Comment by Dan on December 21, 2008 at 2:37am -
a few people here may find this interesting.
http://thezeitgeistmovement.com/index.html
I'm assuming that a lot of people here already know about it. Seeing the types of comments and such.
You may find the movie very inspiring... if thats the right word to use
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Comment by pat donovan on December 21, 2008 at 2:58am
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seen it already. Gave copies of it away last christmas.. as enlightenment gifs.. (pun intended)
I'm bycotting youtube this weekend... you?
pat
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Comment by pat donovan on December 21, 2008 at 2:08pm
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also noteworthy... funding is being denied on a cultural-cleansing basis.
movie makers get censored actively by only funding propaganda.
mercury, sodium floride, arsnenic.. monosodium gultimate, (current IQ =0.)
self-serving bullshit, cemsorship, repression of free speech, (in, de, re, con, un, sub - info)
elimination (accidental or otherwise) of opposition, (sound familiar, harper?), (first we kill the cartoonists)
so what's it like to be a disloyal, child-molesting, drug-dealing terrorist?
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Comment by GAWD on December 21, 2008 at 2:12pm -
"used to be a rake, now its a coat hanger"
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Comment by pat donovan on December 21, 2008 at 2:20pm
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used to be teasing, now it's bullying...
pat
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Comment by GAWD on December 21, 2008 at 2:23pm
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used to be a boy, now hes a man
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