Random Politics & Religion #00

True most doctors are Indian though !

That or convenient store owners...

How could we miss this !

A transgender heckled Obama never !

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/obama-tosses-heckler-lgbt-event-youre-house/story?id=32006474

I just don't know what to say to this randomness. You got all this from a button?

I honestly don't know what to say about your pages upon pages of randomness, but if you're going to snidely make mention of this for "safe keeping", the least you could do is explain why anyone should care about your beloved button. :)

I didn't know people cared that much about the Confederacy. How many black people do you have to kill to learn about the Civil War...turns out it was 9 !

See I try to be positive until those 9 black people died I didn't even know what a confederate flag was !

If you have a chance, listen to the audio. It's not delivered with much malice, there's no doubt she's trying to be funny.

Personally I don't give a ***what she said Nausi... you're focused so much on the defamation issue that you're ignoring the only thing that matters. The falsification of medical records for any reason is unnacceptable.

One thing I am curious abou though... does it somehow make it less offensive or something to the person be spoken about if it's not "delivered with malice"?

The bigger story is that a couple of doctors were joking around and are being sued for defamation because of it. Defamation usually includes a motive of ill will or harm to the victim which is malicious...

Can't find the story now but I did read one yesterday where they consulted a lawyer who specializes in defamation law and he said what I said earlier; that if the jury could be convinced that anyone took (or could take) the doctor seriously, it stands to reason that it could be ruled defamation.

Which is why I said "subjective" when you said "it was clearly meant to be humor".

So all the malicious stuff you say to me, all I need to do is take it seriously and I get your money?

Not exactly.

For one, you'd have to not say inflammatory and insulting things in the first place.

C'mon I'm pretty sure I could find a lawyer that would successfully paint you into the "hater" corner and successfully object to any of your evidence exhibits.

Here I was thinkning I might just get along with you today...

Silly me.

I'm not ignoring it, it just isn't news. She falsified records and is appropriately punished for it.

The bigger story is that a couple of doctors were joking around and are being sued for defamation because of it. Defamation usually includes a motive of ill will or harm to the victim which is malicious. Delivery and intent of the speaker matter.

you either need some coffee this morning or have drank too much of it already.

Clearly you're incompetent for not being able to extrapolate with your feeble liberal mind the same bias, raving, utterly mad conclusion he reached.

Sankaku Complex Banned in France: “Anime = Child Porn!”

France’s reaction to the Islamist butchery of Charlie Hebdo staff for artwork unacceptable to Islam has been to ban Sankaku Complex in France, apparently for artwork unacceptable to the French government – with traffic from French users now being hijacked and redirected to a government warning page as part of its newly enacted internet censorship regime.

France has finally joined such bastions of liberty as Russia, China and much of the Islamic world in opting to ban its citizens from viewing material which might harm their fragile little minds, erecting a virtual Maginot line against the evils of 2D artwork.

According to mainstream news reports, France is cracking down on Islamist attacks on freedom of expression by cracking down on freedom of expression in France, attacking sites deemed to be supporting terrorism and child pornography with blocks forced on local ISPs.

Which sites are blocked are – in the best traditions of secret police actions – secret, but Sankaku Complex is amongst them (along with Islamic State affiliated sites, perhaps illustrating the severity of the threat posed by Japanese visual culture to the Fifth Republic).

With no public scrutiny or judicial oversight of any kind, France’s attack on the free exchange of information within its borders has already been criticised as a violation of Article 8 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Sadly, that hysteria over terrorism and child pornography have been yet again exploited as an excuse to implement an unaccountable Internet censorship system which can rapidly be expanded to block any content the state does not approve of is now hardly surprising, although that a zealous attack specifically designed to destroy free artistic expression has prompted those being attacked to zealously attack it themselves certainly introduces some novel irony to the situation.

Affected visitors to Sankaku Channel only received a warning message making claims that the site is hosting child pornography (such as the works of Jean-Léon Gérôme, no doubt):

The complete text of the ministère de l’intérieur’s original block warning, which for some reason is in French:

The content that so offended the French censors as to warrant such treatment remains unknown – no warning, notification or other communication of any kind was received by Sankaku Complex from the French authorities, and no recourse has been offered.

With almost 5 million posts on the affected subdomain, almost all of which are comprised of 2D artwork legal in all but the most backwardly repressive of jurisdictions, just what exactly provoked both such a grossly indiscriminate response and Sankaku Complex now sharing a distinction formerly only enjoyed by sites advocating global jihad is a mystery.

Indeed, the first indication of any kind that the site was blocked only came in the form of complaints from French users about their inability to access the site, and their shock at being confronted by a state block in their supposedly free nation.

Other popular sites hosting 2D artwork of a not infrequently adult nature (not least Pixiv and NicoNico Seiga, as well as various related English language sites) seem to have escaped the proscription, suggesting the censors are idiots as well as fascists.

The block affects the entire Sankaku Channel subdomain, though not other subdomains of the site, meaning users will be still be able to access certain parts of the site (including, hopefully, this news article), at least until the French interior deems them subversive and blocks them too.

As Sankaku Complex now encrypts all traffic by default to better protect the security and privacy of its users, most censored users will not see anything but an error message when accessing the site with HTTPS (as such encryption prevents governments and criminals from masquerading as the site), but traffic from affected users accessing the HTTP version of the site will be hijacked and they will be confronted by a warning.

In the best tradition of pointless censorship, the block is trivial to circumvent – France has apparently chosen the “DNS poisoning” method of censorship to implement its regime, forcing collaborator ISPs (though apparently not all of them are affected) to hijack lookups of proscribed domains and misdirect visitors to the government’s warning page.

Much as in Russia or other such enlightened nations, using a VPN is enough to completely bypass the block and prevent state spying on private communications; using a DNS server not beholden to the French government is another (very easy) option – Google provides freely available and uncensored DNS servers to all those trapped in less free nations.

Hear that Zeig? 50k is getting off easy!

“Anime = Child Porn!”

We should all make the conclusions of our arguments an outdated political button!