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A really strange court ruling. A fictional cartoon character has equal legal standing with real people:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/story/0,,24771973-7582,00.html
But Justice Adams yesterday said the fact that the images did not realistically represent human beings did not mean the figures depicted could not be considered people.
"If the persons were real, such depictions could never be permitted," Justice Adams said in his judgment. "Their creation would constitute crimes at the very highest end of the criminal calendar."
(\\__/) And if you don't believe The sun will rise
(='.'=) Stand alone and greet The coming night
(")_(") In the last remaining light. (C. Cornell)
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Thank god the US Supreme court rule otherwize on this issue. What in the world is going on in Austrailia?
If you stand for Freedom, but you wont stand for war, then you dont stand for anything worth fighting for.
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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Australia seems to be having a new puritan sweep at present, judging by an Aussie or two who now want to censor Wikipedia.
[Updated on: Tue, 09 December 2008 16:59]
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Not just Australia!
The self-appointed quango that nannies the UK, from which there is no appeal, arbitrarily censored a Wikipedia image late last week. Due to considerable public and commercial pressure, they have now backed down ... but the lack of transparency attached to the process, and the lack of any appeal route, is deeply worrying.
see http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/dec/09/wikipedia-ban-reversed for details.
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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Thank you for that, NW, I read the Guardian and hadn't noticed it.
Love,
Anthony
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The report of the banning was in the Guardian either this morning or yesterday - I can't remember which. The news about the un-banning was from the Guardian RSS news headline feed ... I expect it will be in the paper tomorrow.
There have also been reports on this fiasco on the BBC and other places ... though I heard about it over the weekend from an e-friend who has even stronger objections to the Big Brother / Supernanny state the UK is becoming than I do!
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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saben
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Time to move back to Asia, methinks.
Look at this tree. I cannot make it blossom when it suits me nor make it bear fruit before its time [...] No matter what you do, that seed will grow to be a peach tree. You may wish for an apple or an orange, but you will get a peach.
Master Oogway
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