• Prohibiting prior censorship of on-line communication.
  
  
• Requiring that laws restricting the content of on-line speech distinguish between the liability of content providers and the liability of data carriers.
  
  
• Insisting that on-line free expression not be restricted by indirect means such as excessively restrictive governmental or private controls over computer hardware or software, telecommunications infrastructure, or other essential components of the Internet.
  
  
• Including citizens in the Global Information Infrastructure (GII) development process from countries that are currently unstable economically, have insufficient infrastructure, or lack sophisticated technology.
  
  
• Prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.
  
  
• Ensuring that personal information generated on the GII for one purpose is not used for an unrelated purpose or disclosed without the person's informed consent and enabling individuals to review personal information on the Internet and to correct inaccurate information.
  
  
• Allowing on-line users to encrypt their communications and information without restriction."

Individuals use Tor

to keep websites
from tracking them &
their family members,

or to connect to news sites,
instant messaging
services,
or the like
when these
are blocked
by their
local Internet providers.

Tor's hidden services let users

publish web sites and
other services without
needing to reveal the location of the site.

Individuals also use Tor for
socially sensitive
communication:

chat rooms and web forums for

rape & abuse survivors,
or people with illnesses..."

.....how 'bout that.

---so pass these along
to ALL your activist & progressive

web pals---

especially the info
that relates
to web
free speech protection/
Net Neutrality:

http://www.savetheinternet.com/

...
I've put alot of this info in my blog

here on Care2,

and I'd ask ya

to copy this info
&
do the same

b4
it's too late &
freedom of speech
in the digital age

is set-back to a
scary degree ;-(

Peace &
keep web-slingin'........
Rob
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"After a very long delay, the Seventh Tribunal of Justice in Caracas, Venezuela has finally published the verdict in the case against Linda Loaiza’s accused attacker, Luis Carrera Almoina. As expected, it is far too light for the crimes he committed against Linda, and we are outraged that justice has not been served.  

The official verdict is that Carrera Almoina is guilty only of severe assault and deprivation of liberty, rather than the full charges of attempted homicide, rape and torture that he was on trial for, despite clear evidence to the contrary...."

They really do mean it , by mcjoan   Fri Mar 17, 2006 at 04:25:18 PM PDT

A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that the state of Tennessee can issue

"Choose Life"

license plates, the Associated Press reported.

 

The antiabortion license plates had been thrown out by a lower court, after abortion-rights groups complained that the state refused to issue "Choose Choice" plates. "Although this exercise of government one-sideness with respect to a very contentious political issue may be ill-advised, we are unable to conclude that the Tennessee statute contravenes the First Amendment," said Judge John Rogers of the 6th U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati.

The proceeds from the sales of these license plates will go to adoption services.

As noted at Broadsheet, it'd be nice if those funds also were targeted toward providing contraceptive services to low-income women, but we can't be having that.

Providing contraception to single women just promotes promiscuity, don't you know.

Seriously, if they could legislate chastity belts for all single women and gay men, they would."

Today,
please take action to protect
Lydia Cacho Ribeiro,
president of the
Women’s Assistance Center in Cancun, Mexico.

In December 2005,
she was charged with
criminal defamation and jailed for several days
after implicating prominent businessmen in a
child
pornography
ring.

Credible evidence suggests that the
prosecution was
initiated solely to harass and silence her
activism...
http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/defenders/hrd_women/alert030806_IWD.asp

If she is convicted, Ms. Cacho could face up to four years in prison.