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Tiananmen Square and the “Tank Man” Protester

June 25, 2007

It’s hard to believe that it’s been 18 years since the Tiananmen Square Massacre and the legendary “tank man”. But this month marks the anniversary, and given that enough time as passed that a new generation has been born and without hearing about it I thought I’d give a little reminder surrounding events of the [...]

Show Us Yours! The Boob Blog

June 21, 2007

First of all, NO… my blog is not digressing into another porn site! Actually it’s sad, but I really debated about reporting this because nudity is involved. But I decided that it was for the common good and that the vast majority of my readers would probably appreciate the link… The popular women’s magazine Jane [...]

Dr. Wafa Sultan Rebukes Arab World on Al Jezeera

May 21, 2007

This is one of the most brilliant and courageous things I’ve ever seen. Thanks to Ruby on Rails Guy for sharing this in the comments of another post. In 2006 Wafa Sultan was named to Time Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people “whose power, talent or moral example is transforming the world.” They [...]

Privacy Equals Freedom – Support the Freenet Project

May 15, 2007

Freedom. It’s nice, right? It ought to be… the freedom we enjoy was paid for with the blood of our forefathers, and is maintained by the blood of our siblings. And no freedom is more precious than that of speech. From it all other freedom flows. Unfortunately there are still many oppressive regimes that do [...]

Response to a Net Neutrality Critic

March 20, 2007

I recently found myself reading David Cowan’s personal blog as a result of researching my previous post on Dr. Dawkin’s letter to his daughter. As I perused his interesting site I found a post entitled “Net Neutrality is Politically Correct“. If my interpretation is correct, David argues that the concept of Net Neutrality is misguided [...]

The Rules of Islamic Wife Beating

March 15, 2007

This is not meant to be offensive to anyone, but I found it educational to understand the depths of the Islamic religious basis for the status of women in society. So far as I am aware there is no similar religious teaching in Christianity, Buddhism, or other major religions – although I’m sure someone will [...]

Political Art of Banksy the Graffiti Guerrilla

March 14, 2007

Hi kids. Today’s art lesson comes in the form of England’s most popular and well known graffiti artist. How popular is he? Well, two men were actually convicted in a UK court for defacing one of his works. That’s right. He tagged a building, they covered it up, and they went to jail! Banksy is [...]

One Man’s Blog Banned in China

March 11, 2007
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Just a few days ago I read about yet another bit of unbelievable Internet censorship coming out of China. It seems they have decided to eliminate access to the popular blogging site LiveJournal – effectively shutting down access to 1.8 million blogs! This got me thinking. Given that I routinely report on Chinese abuses I [...]

Egyptian Blogger Jailed for Insulting Islam

February 23, 2007
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The next time you take your freedom of speech for granted just think about the alternative. A young man in Egypt has been sentenced to 4 years in jail for “criticizing the President and Islam”. Half of all Americans would be in jail if it were illegal here… ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (Reuters) An Alexandria court convicted [...]

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