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PUBLIC MARKS with tag freedom

June 2006

May 2006

UNC-Chapel Hill Suffers Major Defeat

by jasontromm
In July of 2004, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) wrote to UNC-Chapel Hill, explaining for the second time in less than two years that constitutionally protected freedom of association is meaningless if a group cannot exclude people who do not share the beliefs of the group. This is both basic common sense and clearly established law. The College Democrats can exclude Republicans, the college environmental club can exclude students who hate environmentalism, and the college chess club can exclude members who hate the game and wish to see it abolished. In other words, if you form a group in order to express commonly held ideas or ideals, of course you can exclude those who disagree.

Have you driven a Freedom CAR lately?

by jasontromm
Now that the federal government is really serious about high oil prices we can expect a heightened effort to waste your tax dollars on dubious projects designed to distract the public’s attention. The government is hoping that you will not remember previous grand government-financed efforts to outperform what markets do better, more efficiently and without your tax dollars to grease the skids.

del.icio.us/tag/Manalaa.net

by hchicha
Veille web à propos de alaa le blogger egyptien detenu pour cause da manif pacifiste.

April 2006

6天旅程之自由是更大的压力 - 对牛乱弹琴 | Playin' with IT

by phgod & 3 others
Google的假设是,每个人都非常聪明,而聪明人不喜欢你每件事都管着他,他自己会努力达成自己的目标。只要这个目标和公司的目标在大方向上是一致的,那么给聪明人的自由越多越好。

ACLU endorses bill limiting pregnancy center rights; even some abortion doctors question use of RU 486

by jasontromm
A new congressional effort to police advertising by crisis pregnancy centers is unnecessary, pro-life advocates said, and unconstitutional, free-speech defenders charged. The American Civil Liberties Union, which has long promoted itself as the leading defender of freedom of speech and civil rights, is right in the middle of the controversy, promoting the new legislation to the surprise of some.

6天旅程之自由是更大的压力

by jackysee & 3 others
Quote:不久前,Google Finance的推出,让做了3年Yahoo! Finance工程师的Jeremy Zawodny非常沮丧,因为Google Finance的很多创新,Jeremy早就在Yahoo!内部提过无数次了,但没有得到任何回应。他只能眼睁睁看着Yah

March 2006

Tor: Un système de connexion Internet anonyme

by hchicha & 40 others
Tor peut aider à rendre anonyme votre navigation et publication sur la toile, vos : messagerie instantanée, IRC, SSH et les autres applications utilisant le protocole TCP. Tor fournit aussi une plate forme sur laquelle les développeurs logiciels peuven

WSJ.com - Barbarians Inside the Gate

by Mumvy
In life, Ilan Halimi sold cellular phones on a boulevard named after Voltaire, off a square dedicated to la République. He was an ordinary young Frenchman, except for one thing; he was Jewish, which got him killed. So in death, after 25 days of torture

The Guardian: Not a peep from the professors

by Mumvy & 2 others
I have a question that should be of interest to those concerned about the principle of academic freedom. How is one to account for the fact that when the administration at UPEI sent in the police to confiscate the copies of a recent edition of the stud

February 2006

The Liberty Letter: Those Darn Muslims

by Mumvy
Comments on the response from Wade MacLauchlan, President of the University of Prince Edward Island, to the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship.

Letter from S. Qudsia (Koli) Hoogeveen to Wade McLauchlan, President UPEI

by Mumvy
A "letter of thanks" from a pious Muslim woman to the President of the University of Prince Edward Island, originally posted on the official UPEI website, but removed on February 27, 2006. This URL leads to the page cached by Google.

University of Toronto -- News@UofT -- News Digest -- (February 23, 2006)

by Mumvy
Letter from the Society for Academic Freedom and Censorship to Wade MacLauchlan, President of UPEI, and MacLauchlan's response to SAFS, republished in the news digest of the University of Toronto.