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- "In
volatile Iraq, US curbs press: US issues an
order against inciting attacks on minorities or US troops." ... "At least
some of the fuel for the anti-American fire, US officials here charge,
is being pumped out by new Iraqi media outlets." ... "L. Paul Bremer, the
top US official here, says a new edict prohibiting the local media from
inciting attacks on other Iraqis - and on the coalition forces - is not
meant to put a stopper on the recently uncorked freedom of speech." -By
Ilene R. Prusher -CSMonitor
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- "Iran
dissidents raise their voices: An influential
group of Iranian dissidents have issued an unprecedented declaration defending
the right to criticise their leaders." ... "Following five nights of violent
protests around Tehran University, the 248 reformists said the people of
Iran had "the right to fully supervise the action of their rulers"." ...
""Sitting or making individuals sit in the position of divine and absolute
power is a clear heresy towards God and a clear affront to human dignity,"
said the strongly-worded statement."-BBC/News
- "Iran
student protests spread to other cities." ... "Anti-regime
protests in Tehran, led by students, have spread to other cities, while
Iran's Islamic establishment has slammed US support for the demonstrators
as interference in the country's internal affairs." ... "Domestic media
on Sunday reported gatherings by thousands of students and other people
in the cities of Isfahan, Shiraz and Ahvaz in support of the Tehran protests."
-By Najmeh Bozorgmehr
-FT.com
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- "U.S. is behind
protests, Iranian cleric asserts: Khameni says
no mercy will be shown" ... "Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme
cleric, accused the United States on Thursday of trying to foment disorder
in the Islamic Republic, warning after a second night of protests outside
Tehran University that the government would show no mercy toward those
acting in the interests of foreign powers." ... "The sudden appearance
of hundreds of protesters on the capital's streets, although disorganized
and insignificant in number, evidently contributed to a case of jitters
within some circles in Iran's jigsaw of a government." ... "The unease
was certainly increased by the fact that opposition-run Persian language
television stations beamed into Iran from the United States helped swell
the protests by calling on people to go out into the streets, although
their reports on the numbers and the extent of the demonstrations proved
wildly exaggerated." -By Neil MacFarquhar
-NYTimes via -IHT.com
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- "Hail
to the Chicks! Dixie gives the Dixies a warm
welcome." ... "Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines began the band's U.S.
tour with an open invitation to heckle her. "If you're here to boo, we
welcome that because we welcome freedom of speech," she said from the stage
of Greenville, South Carolina's Bi-Lo Center Thursday night. "So we're
going to give you fifteen seconds to get whatever you have out."" ... "Instead,
the 15,000-strong crowd erupted in cheers." ... "It was the Dixie Chicks'
first U.S. concert since Maines told a London audience on March 10th that
they were ashamed the president is from their home state of Texas." -By
Andy Paras -RollingStone.com/news
- "Readers
mad that Chronicle ran ad to impeach Bush: Antiwar
group paid about $45,000." ... "Monday's ad, which typically would cost
about $45,000, called for the impeachment of Bush, Vice President Dick
Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Attorney General John Ashcroft."
... "The phones at The Chronicle also went into overdrive a few years ago
when the paper ran an ad calling for then-President Bill Clinton's impeachment."
-By John Wildermuth -SFGate.com
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- "Passenger
finds 'chilling' note from bag handler: an
airline passenger who had two "No War with Iraq" signs in his suitcase
says the federal security agent who opened his luggage inserted a note
criticizing his "anti-American attitude.""
-AP via -CNN
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- "'Peace
T-shirt' row sparks protest." ... "Stephen Downs
was briefly detained on Monday, after he refused to take off a T-shirt
saying 'Give a Peace a Chance'." ... "Local security guards at the Crossgates
Mall in Guilderland [New York] called police, and the 61-year-old lawyer
was taken away in handcuffs and charged with trespassing." ... "Mr Downs
said that when the police arrived they tried to convince him he was wrong
in his actions, before making the arrest."-BBC/News
- "Group
protests N.Y. peace T-shirt arrest." ... "About 100
anti-war demonstrators marched through .... [New York's Crossgates Mall]
Wednesday to protest the arrest of a shopper who wore a T-shirt that read
"Peace on Earth" and "Give Peace a Chance."
-AP via -USATODAY
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- "Web
porn filters go to high court: Case to decide
whether use in libraries violates freedom of speech." ... "Software filters
that Congress wants public libraries to install on computers may protect
children from pornography on the Internet, but they also block large quantities
of information on subjects ranging from health to politics to gays and
lesbians." ... "According to court filings, libraries provide Internet
access to 10 percent of the 143 million Americans who use the Web, and
to a larger share of the nation's poor." -By Bob Egelko
-SFGate.com
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- "Justices
Hear Arguments on Internet Filtering Law." ... "The
American Library Association and other groups are challenging the Children's
Internet Protection Act, or CIPA, a law that threatens public schools and
libraries with the loss of federal technology funding if they fail to install
filtering software." ... "President Clinton signed CIPA in 2000, but a
three-judge federal court panel in May 2002 froze the law after the American
Library Association and other civil liberties groups complained that the
law violates free speech rights. The Bush administration then asked the
Supreme Court to review the case." (1, 2)
-Compiled by Robert MacMillan-WashingtonPost>TechNews
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- "Should
libraries filter out Internet porn? The high
court weighs the protection of children against free-speech rights." ...
"The justices struck down the 1996 Communications Decency Act and remanded
to a lower court a case challenging the 1998 Child Online Protection Act."
... "Wednesday, the high court begins examining whether Congress's latest
attempt in this area, the Children's Internet Protection Act, is impermissible
censorship or a justifiable attempt to shield American youths from harm."
-By Warren Richey -CSMonitor
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- "Pop
and Politics: Grammy Organizers Deny Stifling
Anti-War Artists." ... "Some musicians say they were warned not to use
the Grammy podium to make anti-war statements, but show organizers deny
any effort to stifle the artists." -ABCNEWS.com
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- "Australia
trial could set Web precedent." ... "Australia's
highest court ruled on Tuesday that a defamation case sparked by a story
on a U.S Web site could be heard in Australia, opening a legal minefield
for web publishers over which libel laws they must follow." ... "The
landmark ruling that an article published by Dow Jones & Co was subject
to Australian law -- because it was downloaded in Australia -- is being
watched by media firms as it could set a precedent over where Internet
publication occurs." -Reuters
via -CNN /Sci-Tech
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OPINION-
"Can
You Trust Your Computer?" ... "Who should your computer
take its orders from? Most people think their computers should obey them,
not obey someone else. With a plan they call "trusted computing," large
media corporations (including the movie companies and record companies),
together with computer companies such as Microsoft and Intel, are planning
to make your computer obey them instead of you. Proprietary programs have
included malicious features before, but this plan would make it universal."
... ""Treacherous computing" is a more appropriate name, because the plan
is designed to make sure your computer will systematically disobey you."
... "Programs that use treacherous computing will continually download
new authorization rules through the Internet, and impose those rules automatically
on your work. If Microsoft, or the U.S. government, does not like what
you said in a document you wrote, they could post new instructions telling
all computers to refuse to let anyone read that document. Each computer
would obey when it downloads the new instructions. Your writing would be
subject to 1984-style retroactive erasure. You might be unable to read
it yourself." -By Richard Stallman
-NewsForge via -CorpWatch.org
OPINION
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- "Rule
of law or renegade? Iraq crisis will tell, ex-inspector
says." ... "The looming war in Iraq will define the United States either
as a democracy dedicated to the rule of law or a renegade empire, says
Scott Ritter, the controversial former chief U.N. weapons inspector in
Iraq." ... "He said the Bush administration has used the Sept. 11 tragedy
to further the right's agenda -- not to make the nation more secure." ...
"By accusing dissenters of being unpatriotic, he said Bush has created
a climate in America that stifles democratic values of free and open discussion
of issues." ... ""Democracy is about involvement, criticizing, debate,
that's what makes this country work," Ritter said." -By
Chris McGann -Seattle-PI.com.NWsource
- "Gross
critic in Vilsack ad told: Stop." ... "A woman who
criticizes [Iowa gubernatorial candidate] Republican Doug Gross in a campaign
advertisement for [Iowa] Gov. Tom Vilsack has received a letter from Gross'
law firm demanding that she apologize and refrain from saying more." -By
Thomas Beaumont -DesMoinesRegister
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- "China
wrestles an online dragon: China is shutting
down Beijing's Internet cafes after a fire that killed 24 people earlier
this week." ... "Just a week earlier, the People's Daily was boasting how
China had surpassed Japan with an Internet population of 56 million, second
only to the United States, with its 156 million users. But as the number
of users in China has skyrocketed, so have the demands on regulating authorities.
For the past three years, the Communist Party has been trying to find effective
ways to monitor what people are writing or reading without intimidating
the youthful entrepreneurs who have started up China's more than 200,000
cafes or 250,000 websites." -By Jasper Becker -CSMonitor/subscribe
- "Sierra
Leone counts votes." ... "Votes are being counted
in Sierra Leone after Tuesday's elections with incumbent president Ahmad
Tejan Kabbah showing an early lead, according to unofficial results." ...
"The 17,500-strong UN Mission in Sierra Leone (Unamsil) is the world's
biggest peacekeeping operation."-BBC
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- "Picture
Gallery: Sierra Leone counts votes." ... BBC
Photo: "Those whose arms were hacked off during the war had to vote using
their toes." -BBC
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- "The
100-Proof Fifth: Enron Execs' Watered-Down
Pleas Are No Match for the Punch of McCarthy Era." Compares the timid
treatment of Enron executives choice not to speak with the treatment received
by witnesses during the 1950's House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
investigation. -By Peter Carlson-WashingtonPost
- "Putin
blamed for TV shutdown." The last independent
TV station in Russia, TV6, has been shut down.
-BBC /News
- "Russia's
TV6 Broadcasting Replaced."
-By Sarah Karush-AP
via -WashingtonPost
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