Update: this probably needs a trigger warning. It is indeed very upsetting. Speaking of girls, and bullying, and sexualization, and bullying, and name-calling, and bullying… A girl in Coquitlam, BC, couldn’t wait for it to get better, and killed herself on Wednesday. She left a video telling the story.
Tag Archive: Free speech
Oct 11 2012
Doin it rong
A guy from Greater Manchester, Barry Thew, wore a horrible T shirt right after two police constables, Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes, were killed. The T shirt said “one less pig perfect justice.” Nasty. He was sentenced to four months in jail today. He “admitted a public order offence.” A police spokesman said Thew, of Worsley Street, …
Sep 14 2012
He will be sentenced later
No no no; doing it wrong. A Yorkshire teenager has been found guilty of “posting an offensive Facebook message.” Posting an offensive Facebook message is a crime? Azhar Ahmed, 19, of Ravensthorpe, West Yorkshire, was charged with sending a grossly offensive communication. Waaaaait a second – posting a message on Facebook isn’t “sending” it. It’s …
Aug 18 2012
“Satan’s representative” on the Michigan Student Assembly
More detail on the Andrew Shirvell case, because CNN has more. Shirvell was fired from his job in the attorney general’s office in 2010 after targeting the student leader online and in person — then lying about his actions to investigators, state Attorney General Mike Cox said at the time. Shirvell “repeatedly violated office policies, …
Jun 06 2012
Insulting Islamic values in Twitter messages
Another entry in the annals of Persecuting and Prosecuting People For Having an Opinion That Reactonaries Dislike. A court here on Friday charged Fazil Say, a classical and jazz pianist with an international career, with insulting Islamic values in Twitter messages, the latest in a series of legal actions against Turkish artists, writers and intellectuals for …
Mar 29 2012
Measuring the distance
Another free speech issue, a tricky one. France has barred a group of Muslim clerics, including one of the most prominent voices in Sunni Islam, from entering the country to attend a conference. France’s foreign ministry said Thursday the clerics were invited by the French Islamic Union to speak at a congress in Le Bourget …
Mar 24 2012
A bargain
It can seem strange how entirely alien the whole idea of free discussion can seem to people who (I suppose) have never had any experience of it. A Bangladesh court on Wednesday ordered authorities to shut down five Facebook pages and a website for blaspheming the Prophet Mohammed, the Koran and other religious subjects, a …
Mar 07 2012
Atheists v Hasids
American Atheists were going to give the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn a very nice atheist billboard. Dave Silverman says they get emails from atheists there who feel very alone; AA wanted to let them know they’re not alone.
Feb 13 2012
Those who are wanted by their countries of origin
Malaysia today is defending its extradition of Hamza Kashgari back to Saudi Arabia where he could easily be executed for saying he has questions about Mohammed. International rights groups have slammed the deportation but Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said Malaysia was not a safe haven for fugitives. Jiddah-based newspaper columnist Hamza Kashgari, 23, was detained …
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