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December 9th, 2007 — 1389 Blog - Antijihadist Tech, smiley, trolls, comment policy, software piracy, spam, privacy, U.S. law, blogging
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October 26th, 2007 — media, enemy propaganda, leftist-jihadist convergence, U.S. Constitution, smiley, privacy, culture wars, counterjihad, censorship
Will net neutrality keep the largest ISPs from restricting the way we use the Internet? Michael S. Malone thinks so. He says: “That does it: I am now a full-fledged convert to net neutrality.” Read the article and decide for yourself.
Dan Sytman, of Sytman & Boze, brings us some audio from the jihadist ranters and ravers who are protesting Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week (IFAW). For other IFAW censorship issues, see yesterday’s Censorship Update 10/25/07.
On the evening of October 25, I attended the protest of Islamo-fascism Awareness Week at the University of Washington. Here is my conversation with Zakariya Dehlawi, President of the UW Muslim Student Association. He insists that even though Islamic terrorists frequently invoke their religion before detonating themselves, we shouldn’t ever mention the word “Islam” when we’re talking about those attacks. The conversation is interupted by an angry Muslim man, who you’ll hear from next.
UW Muslim Student Association President
Here is the rest of my conversation with the Muslim man who clearly wanted to talk, but didn’t want to answer questions. Note that he says “you didn’t catch Osama Bin Laden.” He, along with the next member of the UW MSA, doesn’t appear to identify with the country in which this protest is taking place. This leads to the obvious question: which side are these guys on, anyway? The following clips includes both men, both of whom seem to justify the 9/11 attacks because of the American foreign policy.
Hostile Muslim Protestors at the UW
The University of Delaware folds like a lawn chair!
Yesterday, the University of Delaware asked Asaf Romirowsky to step down from an academic panel at the University of Delaware because another panelist, University of Delaware political scientist Muqtedar Khan, didn’t want to share the podium with anyone who served in the Israeli Defense Forces.
And how dare the Pentagon get its advice from such a bigot?
If Khan was just an academic, that would be one thing. But he also straddles the policy world: Khan is a a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a Pentagon consultant. According to an e-mail he sent to the University, he gave a workshop at the Pentagon yesterday afternoon.
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October 25th, 2007 — political correctness, leftist-jihadist convergence, cartoon censorship, YouTube, smiley, counterjihad, privacy, culture wars, immigration, U.S. law, blogging
Free Speech on Campus Takes Another Hit
Emory:
GWU:
Wisconsin:
Elsewhere in Wackademia:
Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week (IFAW) has certainly brought out plenty of barking moonbats from the infamous leftist/jihadist convergence:
Stein hoist to Jenn Sierra and to Terp Mole on LGF!
Bad News in the EU
Murder - The Ultimate Censorship
Cartoon Censorship
Privacy and Freedom of the Press
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IN YOUR FACE! FURIOUS PUBLIC BACKLASH FORCES COUNTY ATTORNEY ANDREW THOMAS TO DROP CASE AGAINST NEW TIMES.
Your opinion, in the blogosphere and elsewhere, makes a difference! Although Arpaio remains in office, the prosecution has backed off on this abusive venture. (See Tinpot Tyrant Sheriff Joe Arpaio Invades YOUR Internet Privacy for background.)
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Denmark: Defending Free Speech in the Mainstream Media
Yes, it can be done; this article shows how!
It has been said from time to time that Islam-critics are kept out by a ‘Media Wall’, barring certain viewpoints from the Mainstream Media.
My experience doesn’t substantiate this. Over the last 2½ years, I had something in the league of 150 letters printed in the largest mainstream newspapers. My ‘hit rate’ varies wildly, but has at times been hovering at 60-70 %, well above the average of around 30 % in Danish papers.
“But that’s Denmark, and you guys are special.”
Might be. But a dozen of those letters were printed in International Herald Tribune, which is hardly a Danish special case.
The take-home lesson is encouraging:
Your time and effort is well spent when you write or blog to raise public awareness about threats to our First Amendment rights, or when you write, call, or email to protest against infringements on these rights.
Media Disinformation
Flooding both the blogosphere and traditional media with disinformation is a de facto method of censorship, because it crowds out any attempt to get true information in front of the public. Those using search engines will see the baloney at the top of the list, and most people won’t bother to dig down to find the real information. This technique is well known to black-hat search engine optimization (SEO) and “reputation management” purveyors.
Stein hoist to Little Green Footballs!
“Fairness” Doctrine
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October 19th, 2007 — media, crime, corruption, smiley, immigration, privacy, culture wars, censorship
(Updated 10/22/2007) Your opinion in the blogosphere makes a difference!
IN YOUR FACE! FURIOUS PUBLIC BACKLASH FORCES COUNTY ATTORNEY ANDREW THOMAS TO DROP CASE AGAINST NEW TIMES.
Your time and effort is well spent when you write or blog to raise public awareness about threats to our First Amendment rights, or when you write, call, or email to protest against infringements on these rights.
“But I’m not a prisoner and I’ve never been to Maricopa County!”
Doesn’t matter! If you’ve visited Phoenix New Times Online, your browsing history has been swept up into a nasty local investigation that has nothing whatsoever to do with you. Everything in the server logs pertaining to your visit is up for grabs.
If, that is, you’ve ever read the Phoenix New Times online. The alternative weekly has run several articles over the years critical of the so-called “toughest sheriff in America.” But when an investigative piece on a series of questionable Arpaio real estate transactions included the sheriff’s home address (possibly violating state law), Arpaio launched an incredibly broad, wide-reaching investigation that looks an awfully lot like retaliation.
Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, the executive editor and CEO, respectively, of Village Voice Media, were arrested at their homes on suspicion of violating grand jury secrecy, said sheriff’s spokesman Capt. Paul Chagolla.
Both were released from custody early this morning. Lacey posted a $500 bond, according to New Times.
The two, who together started New Times in 1970, were the authors of Thursday’s cover story revealing that a special prosecutor, retained by the county attorney’s office, had issued subpoenas to them and other staffers in a criminal case against the paper. The case stems from the paper publishing Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s home address more than three years ago.
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Especially disturbing, Lacey and Larkin wrote, is that one subpoena asks for online profiles of anyone who read four specific articles about Arpaio and profiles of anyone who visited the paper’s Web site since Jan. 1, 2004. The county officials also want to track what Web users did while on the site, the story says.
Michael Lacey, the executive editor, and Jim Larkin, chief executive, were arrested at their homes after they wrote a story that revealed that the Village Voice Media company, its executives, its reporters and even the names of the readers of its website had been subpoenaed by a special prosecutor. The special prosecutor had been appointed to look into allegations that the newspaper had violated the law in publishing the home address of Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s home address on its website more than three years ago.
The weekly and its leadership has been in a long running battle with Mr. Arpaio, after the weekly published a series of stories about his real estate dealings.
How did Arpaio become entrenched in power?
He’s no hero!
Too many conservatives admire Arpaio from afar, thinking he has the answer to problems of crime and social disorder.
It’s true that there are some very real problems in Maricopa County, especially in regard to illegal immigrants, and some people are content with the fact that Arpaio seems to be addressing those problems and are unwilling to look any further.
Nonetheless, riding roughshod over due process of law, common decency, and everyone’s privacy is never the way to go. Think about it: If you enter Arpaio’s jurisdiction and you get picked up for something you didn’t do, especially if you are physically fragile, you’re out of luck. Don’t think it can’t happen to you!
To top it off, Arpaio has such an effective PR campaign going that you’ll be unlikely to get anybody’s sympathy or help. He has played on public anger at rampant crime to make a seeming virtue of his smug, self-righteous, and cruel behavior. Even so, these tyrannies don’t last forever. When the bovine effluent from Arpaio’s reign of terror finally reaches the rotary ventilation enhancement device, Maricopa County will become known as an object of derision and a place to avoid.
Commenter blames federalism:
Mr. Nice Guy | October 19, 2007, 10:46am | #812184
I hope the folks who always moan about the federal government is always evil and federalism is always da bomb read this. Local government can be very tyrannical, and often it’ only the feds who can set these kind of tin-badge tyrants straight.
1389’s response:
1389 | October 19, 2007, 4:12pm | #812774
Mr. Nice Guy:
You are correct in pointing out that state and local authorities can become tinpot tyrants too. However, I take issue with your assertion that the feds can set them straight. That doesn’t seem to be happening! It’s the job of the local citizenry to do that! In other words, it all comes down to YOU!
1389
What to do?
Vote with your feet and boycott the place! If you live or have a business in Maricopa County, Arizona. move out! For everyone else, don’t visit!
Arpaio the Voyeur - So concerned about his OWN privacy! (Updated 10/20/07)
Dennis Wagner
The Arizona Republic
Sept. 12, 2006 12:00 AM
Maricopa County inmates have won a settlement with Sheriff Joe Arpaio over his live Internet broadcasts that showed prisoners being booked, photographed and, in some cases, using a toilet at the county jail.
The Sheriff’s Office agreed Monday to pay the legal fees for the inmates, plus $500 in damages to each of the 11 who remain in the case that was filed five years ago in U.S. District Court. Arpaio also agreed to accept the court order blocking the so-called jailcam.
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Donna Hamm, executive director at Middle Ground, said the inmates all were pre-trial detainees, presumed not guilty under the law, subjected to public humiliation, with women prisoners shown partly undressed as they used a toilet.
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April 29th, 2007 — instant messaging, the human condition, Iran, cellular, culture wars, current events, privacy, censorship
Apparently, as in Saudi Arabia, too many frustrated Iranians have been using cellphone instant messaging to circumvent the restrictions on communications regarding sexuality, and on contact between the sexes.
See this story from Reuters.com.
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April 25th, 2007 — cyberwars, Microsoft Office, malware, privacy, current events
This article in USA Today gives you even more reasons to be careful about opening email attachments. Be advised that cyberspies can be from any country, and they may be looking for your competitive business secrets as well as military or infrastructure data.
Update: Microsoft patches Office, IE 7 flaws.
Make sure that you have installed these patches on your system!
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April 23rd, 2007 — proxy, privacy, tech tips
This Computerworld article explains some available options and suggests ways to get started.
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