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feng37

Obama's support for the FISA "compromise" - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - 0 views

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  • This bill doesn't legalize every part of Bush's illegal warrantless eavesdropping program but it takes a large step beyond FISA towards what Bush did. There was absolutely no reason to destroy the FISA framework, which is already an extraordinarily pro-Executive instrument that vests vast eavesdropping powers in the President, in order to empower the President to spy on large parts of our international communications with no warrants at all. This was all done by invoking the scary spectre of Terrorism -- "you must give up your privacy and constitutional rights to us if you want us to keep you safe" -- and it is Obama's willingness to embrace that rancid framework, the defining mindset of the Bush years, that is most deserving of intense criticism here.
  • Beyond that, this attitude that we should uncritically support Obama in everything he does and refrain from criticizing him is unhealthy in the extreme. No political leader merits uncritical devotion -- neither when they are running for office nor when they occupy it -- and there are few things more dangerous than announcing that you so deeply believe in the Core Goodness of a political leader, or that we face such extreme political crises that you trust and support whatever your Leader does, even when you don't understand it or think that it's wrong. That's precisely the warped authoritarian mindset that defined the Bush Movement and led to the insanity of the post-9/11 Era, and that uncritical reverence is no more attractive or healthy when it's shifted to a new Leader.
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    This bill doesn't legalize every part of Bush's illegal warrantless eavesdropping program but it takes a large step beyond FISA towards what Bush did. There was absolutely no reason to destroy the FISA framework, which is already an extraordinarily pro-Executive instrument that vests vast eavesdropping powers in the President, in order to empower the President to spy on large parts of our international communications with no warrants at all. This was all done by invoking the scary spectre of Terrorism -- "you must give up your privacy and constitutional rights to us if you want us to keep you safe" -- and it is Obama's willingness to embrace that rancid framework, the defining mindset of the Bush years, that is most deserving of intense criticism here.
shi zhao

最高法院核准上海袭警案主犯死刑 7日内执行 - 0 views

  • 王静梅称,杨佳出事后,她就被带到大屯派出所做笔录。第二天深夜,她被派出所工作人员送到了北京市公安局直属的精神病医院安康医院接受治疗。“我自己单独住一间。他们给我一些治精神病的药吃。”     7月16日,王静梅在医院给上海来的律师谢有明签了委托书,使其成为杨佳一审的辩护律师。她解释说,“当时是为了孩子好。我在这里帮不上忙,总得让孩子有个律师。”
shi zhao

哈尔滨"10*11"案捏造散布"高官背景"者被处罚 - 0 views

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    哈尔滨"10*11"案捏造散布"高官背景"者被处罚
feng37

Change you can download: a billion in secret Congressional reports - Wikileaks - 0 views

  • Wikileaks has released nearly a billion dollars worth of quasi-secret reports commissioned by the United States Congress. Frontpage of sample CRS report, RL31555: China and Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Missiles: Policy Issues, dated January 7, 2009. A full listing of reports is available here.
  • The 6,780 reports, current as of this month, comprise over 127,000 pages of material on some of the most contentious issues in the nation, from the U.S. relationship with Israel to the financial collapse.
  • The Federation of American Scientists, in pushing for the reports to be made public, stated that the "CRS is Congress' Brain and it's useful for the public to be plugged into it,"[2]. While Wired magazine called their concealment "The biggest Congressional scandal of the digital age"[3]. Although all CRS reports are legally in the public domain, they are quasi-secret because the CRS, as a matter of policy, makes the reports available only to members of Congress, Congressional committees and select sister agencies such as the GAO.
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  • Opportunists smuggle out nearly all reports and sell them to cashed up special interests--lobbyists, law firms, multi-nationals, and presumably, foreign governments. Congress has turned a blind eye to special interest access, while continuing to vote down public access.
feng37

Digital Resistance and the Orange Revolution « iRevolution - 0 views

  • Maidan was a group of tech-savvy pro-democracy activists who used the Internet as a tool to support their movement. Maidan in Ukranian means public square and Maidan’s website features the slogal “You CAN chnage the world you live in. And you can do it now. In Ukraine.”
    • feng37
       
      买单?
  • The main activity of Maidan was election monitoring and networking with other pro-democracy organizations around Eastern Europe.
  • “websites cannot produce an activist organization.”
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  • it was crucial for Maidan to frequently host real world meetings as their membership base increased. The human element was particularly important. This explains why Maidan encouraged users to disclose their identity whenever possible.
  • The community benefited from centralized leadership that developed the organization’s culture, controlled its assets and provided the strategy to achieve desired goals. The Maidan experience thus demonstrates a hybrid organization.
  • Pora, meaning “It’s Time” in Ukranian, was a well-organized group of  pro-democracy volunteers that “emerged as an information sharing campaign and during the elections morphed into coordinators of mass protest centered around tent cities in towns throughout Ukraine. The grassroots movement took its inspiration from Serbia’s Otpor movements as well as “older civic movements in Hungary and Czechoslovakia.”
  • “the active use of modern communication systems in the campaign’s management,” and “mobile phones played an important role for mobile fleet of activists.”
  • “a ssytem of immedate dissemination of information by SMS was put in place and proved important.” In addition, “some groups provided the phones themselves, while others provided SIM cards, and most provided airtime.”
  • roviding rapid reporting in a way that no other medium could. As tent cities across the Ukraine became the sign of the revolution,
  • The news feed from the regions [became] vitally important. Every 10 to 15 minutes another tent city appeared in some town or other, and the fact was soon reported on the air.
  • While the government certainly saw the Internet as a threat, the government had not come to consensus regarding the “legal and political frameworks it would use to silence journalists that published openly on this new medium.”
  • many online journalists unlike mainstream journalists were free from the threat of defamation charges.
  • one of the earliest examples of what Steven Mann calls “sousveillance,” meaning, “the monitoring of authority figures by grassroots groups, using the technologies and techniques of surveillance.”
  • Technology certainly does not make possible a direct democracy, where everyone can participate in a decision, nor representative democracy where decision makers are elected; nor is it really a one-person-one-vote referendum style democracy. Instead it is a consultative process known as ‘rough consensus and running code.’
  • the real power of traditional media. Natalia Dmytruk worked for the Ukraine’s state-run television news program as an interpreter of sign language for the hearing-impaired. As the revolution picked up momentum, she decided she couldn’t lie anymore and broke from the script with the following message: I am addressing everybody who is deaf in the Ukraine. Our president is Victor Yushchenko. Do not trust the results of the central election committee. They are all lies. . . . And I am very ashamed to translate such lies to you. Maybe you will see me again…
  • “Dmytruk’s live silent signal helped spread the news, and more people began spilling into the streets to contest the vote.”
  • itizen journalists and digital activists participated in civil resistance trainings across the country, courtesy of Otpor. The use of humor and puns directed at the regime is a classic civil resistance tactic.
  • one of key reasons that explains the success of the revolution has to do with the fact that “the protesters were very well trained and very good at protesting… very, very good.”
  • Digital activists need to acquire the tactical and strategic know-how developed over decades of civil resistance movements. Otherwise, tactical victories by digital activists may never translate into overall strategic victory for a civil resistance movement.
isaac Mao

'One thing is clear: you cannot protest legally in China' -- chicagotribune.com - 0 views

  • Manuela Parrino is a 40-year-old Italian who has lived in Beijing for the last 41/2 years with her husband, an Italian television correspondent, and their son, Jacopo. "I was kind of fed up with all the visiting journalists talking negatively about China. I was at the press conference where they announced the new protest areas, and I thought, 'OK, let's give this a try.' "
feng37

The Crackdown to Come - WSJ.com - 0 views

  • As a key element of the revival of Chairman Mao Zedong's "people's warfare," Beijing and a number of other cities have revived the vigilante and spying functions of neighborhood committees. Municipal administrations along the coast -- and in the autonomous regions of Tibet and Xinjiang -- have recently earmarked additional budget to maintain the "spying" functions of neighborhood committees and similar vigilante outfits after the Olympics. Moreover, the Politburo's Central Political and Legal Commission, China's highest law-enforcement agency, has urged the courts and prosecutors to do more in fulfilling the party's priority task of thwarting anti-Beijing conspiracies and upholding sociopolitical stability. That the courts will comply in this is evident from a just-released article by the President of the Supreme People's Court, Wang Shengjun. Writing in this week's edition of the official Seeking Truth journal, Mr. Wang said: "We must pay more attention to maintaining state security and social stability. . . We must boost our consciousness of [safeguarding] the power of the regime . . . and fully develop our functions as a department for [proletarian] dictatorship."
isaac Mao

EFF: 保护Bloggers的权利 - 0 views

  • Bloggers can be journalists (and journalists can be bloggers) - We're battling for legal and institutional recognition that if you engage in journalism, you're a journalist, with all of the attendant rights, privileges, and protections. (See Apple v. Does.)
  • Bloggers have the right to political speech - We're working with a number of other public-interest organizations to ensure that the Federal Election Commission (FEC) doesn't gag bloggers' election-related speech. We argue that the FEC should adopt a presumption against the regulation of election-related speech by individuals on the Internet, and interpret the existing media exemption to apply to online media outlets that provide news reporting and commentary regarding an election -- including blogs. (See our joint comments to the FEC; [PDF, 332K].)
isaac Mao

Very begginner: 中国现在究竟有没有契机成为公民社会 - 0 views

  •  我不再爱你,我也没有恨你   虽然你还是你   我没有力气,我也没有必要   一定要反对你   我去你妈的我就去你妈的   我背后骂着你   我们看谁能够   一直坚持到底
Clement Chen

20100416福建"网民诬告陷害案"一审3网民以"诽谤罪"获刑_新华法治_新华网 - 1 views

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      法院将罪名由指控的"诬告陷害罪"变更为"诽谤罪",显得相当可疑。如果是由公诉机关主张改变罪名,那它必须解释为什么要把作为自诉案件的"诽谤罪"列为公诉案件;如果是法院主动改变罪名(尽管这极不合理,但《刑诉法司法解释》是允许的),那么根据控审分离和辩论原则,法院仍需通知公诉人重新举证,并给予被告人充分的抗辩机会。
  • 2009年6月22日晚,被告人范燕琼即将该文章发布到境外互联网站,被国内外多家网站转载,引发大量网民攻击、谩骂、诋毁网文中所涉及的被害人,给被害人的工作和生活带来严重的影响,名誉受到严重损害
  • 福州市有关部门经过调查核实,发现被告人范燕琼所写的网文虚构事实,纯属捏造。
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  • 有意识地广泛传播,进一步对被害人的人格、名誉造成损害,后由网友将该视频发送到境外互联网站。之后,被告人范燕琼又杜撰了一篇闽清公安局领导干部恐吓严晓玲亲属的文章,发送到国内外互联网上
  • 法院认为,被告人范燕琼故意捏造事实,先后两次杜撰文章在互联网上散布虚构的事实;被告人游精佑、吴华英在明知福州市有关部门已经召开新闻发布会,公布严晓玲死亡真相的情况下,仍然制作违背事实的视频,在互联网上传播;上述被告人的行为引发大量网民网上跟帖,攻击、谩骂、诋毁被害人,严重损害了他人人格,败坏他人名誉,造成恶劣的社会影响,严重危害了社会秩序,情节严重,三被告人的行为均已构成诽谤罪
    • Clement Chen
       
      法院必须说明,此案是如何从自诉转为公诉的,否则就是违反法定程序,应被撤销
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