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...Internet depends more on old-fashioned muscle than on new technology. Above all, Beijing maintains control by instilling the fear in Web scribes and online businesses that they are being watched?and that, if they cross the line, they are risking their investment, their business, even their freedom. The threat is real: Human Rights Watch estimates that 60 Chinese are serving prison sentences for Internet-based political crimes, and Beijing frequently closes down websites operating on Chinese soil whose owners allow controversial postings...
...anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre). Yahoo! officials said they had no choice but to abide by the "laws, regulations and customs" of countries where it does business. It isn't alone in its sensitivity to local customs: Microsoft's MSN portal blocks the Chinese words for "democracy" and "freedom" from the blogs it hosts, while Google omits banned websites from its search results...
...committee was really sort of two slightly incompatible mandates in terms of what the general sentiment was,” Menand said. “One was to get a system which had more student choice and freedom with the feeling that the Core was felt by some students to be too confining. The other desire was the desire to provide something that was sweeping and rigorous that would give students a foundation for knowledge...
...same liberties that ensure a free society make the innocent vulnerable to those who prevent rights and privileges and commit senseless and cruel acts. Those precious liberties include free speech, freedom to assemble, freedom of liberties, access to public places, the right to bear arms and freedom from constant surveillance. We are not willing to sacrifice these rights because of the acts of maniacs...
...Nowhere in the EU is rejection of Turkish membership as strong as it is in Austria, where polls find between 80 and 90% of voters opposed. An incendiary campaign by the far-right Freedom Party played a role in stoking that opposition, as did atavistic memories of the Ottoman Turk army at the gates of Vienna in 1683. The Austrian government channeled that sentiment by opposing the idea that the talks, expected to last at least nine years, would be premised on the "shared objective" of "accession." Vienna wanted language that could have allowed talks to end in something less...