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Judge rules in satirical Web siteâs favor
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| A Web site that satirizes news can run a
| fictional story about a giraffe attack at
| Global Wildlife Center in Folsom, a state
| district judge ruled Monday.
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| After a two-hour hearing, state District
| Judge Beth Wolfe struck down a temporary
| restraining order signed March 2 that had
| called for the removal of the story from
| the site, Hammond Action News.
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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/bizarre/6915046.html
Encyclopedia Dramatica Owner May Face Charges Down Under... Despite Not Being In Australia
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| But it turns out that the Australian Human
| Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission
| (HREOC) is upset about a "deliberately
| offensive article about Aborigines," and is
| threatening to take the site's operator,
| Joseph Evers, to court. The thing is, the
| stuff on Encyclopedia Dramatica are
| deliberately offensive to pretty much
| everyone. That's the point. But the nice
| thing about the internet is that if you
| don't like that sort of thing, you can
| avoid it. Furthermore, Evers is in the US
| and isn't breaking any US laws.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100316/0308288580.shtml
Joshua Newton: Variety's Tim Gray Is 'Lying Through His Nose'
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| Joshua Newton, the producer and director of
| "Iron Cross," has sued Variety for fraud
| and breach of contract over a negative
| review of his film that he claims
| undermined a $400,000 advertising campaign
| orchestrated by the trade. Grilled by
| Sharon Waxman, he accuses Variety editor
| Tim Gray of lying, and says publisher Neil
| Stiles told him he planned to end all
| reviews in 2010. Asked for a response, Gray
| had no comment and Stiles did not respond
| to an email.
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http://www.thewrap.com/ind-column/josh-newton-tim-gray-lying-through-his-nose-15250
Full Text of Human Rights Record of the United States in 2009
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| China's Information Office of the State
| Council published a report titled "The
| Human Rights Record of the United States in
| 2009" here Friday. Following is the full
| text:
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| The State Department of the United States
| released its Country Reports on Human
| Rights Practices for 2009 on March 11,
| 2010, posing as "the world judge of human
| rights" again. As in previous years, the
| reports are full of accusations of the
| human rights situation in more than 190
| countries and regions including China, but
| turn a blind eye to, or dodge and even
| cover up rampant human rights abuses on its
| own territory. The Human Rights Record of
| the United States in 2009 is prepared to
| help people around the world understand the
| real situation of human rights in the
| United States.
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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-03/12/c_13208219.htm
The US is turning human rights into a farce
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| No country in this world has impeccable
| records on human rights. Therefore, it
| should be healthy for governments of
| different countries to exchange ideas on
| human rights if the intention of these
| exchanges is to improve human rights
| performance in this world.However, the
| routine US reports on different countryâs
| human rights records are gradually turning
| the noble concept of human rights into a
| big farce as it engaged two deadly wars,
| causing lives of innocent people in Iraq
| and Afghanistan.
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http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/thinktank/2010-03/16/content_9598756.htm
Letter Offers Glimpse Into Fall-Out If Google Goes
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| Chinaâs state-run broadcaster, China
| Central Television, published on its Web
| site Tuesday the text of a letter, claiming
| it was sent from a group of 27 Google
| advertising resellers to John Liu, who
| leads Googleâs sales team and oversees the
| companyâs business operations in greater
| China. (Read the WSJâs translation of the
| full text of the letter here.)
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http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2010/03/16/letter-offers-glimpse-into-fall-out-if-google-goes/?mod=rss_WSJBlog
Recent:
China seeks identity of Web site operators
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| The "trial regulations" were issued by
| China's Ministry of Industry and
| Information Technology under the auspices
| of an ongoing anti-porn campaign, but they
| will also help the government create
| records of all sites in the country and
| could be used to block other types of
| online content, the IDG News Service
| reported Tuesda
|
| [...]
|
| Google and China have been in a showdown
| since Google announced last month that it
| was targeted by a hacker attack that
| appeared to originate in China and which
| targeted Gmail users who are human rights
| activists. At the time, Google said it
| would stop censoring its searches in that
| domain and might even pull out of the
| country entirely.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10458420-245.html
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