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Archive for November 5th, 2008

Cohen’s article refers to the censorship attempt involving the Turkish creationist Adnan Oktar and the Akdeniz & Altiparmak article published in Bianet.

Nick Cohen: Beware – creationism’s march will go on, The Observer, November 2, 2008

The idea of intelligent fundamentalists, like the theory of intelligent design, does not stand up to 30 seconds’ scrutiny. I must, nevertheless, give credit to American evangelicals for showing belated glimmerings of sense. After decades of blindly endorsing evangelical politicians from the born-again Carter to the born-again Bush, they at last appear ready to look for more than religious dogma in a candidate.

Richard Cizik, the Washington representative of the National Association of Evangelicals, has all but backed Obama. ‘I’m a conservative, but it doesn’t mean I’m going to vote that way,’ he announced. ‘I could disagree with Obama, and do, on same-sex marriage and abortion, but that doesn’t mean I’ll vote against him.’

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Is the internet going down down under?: “

It’s the end of the net as we know it

The battle is now on for the soul of the Australian internet. The outcome could have enormous repercussions for the future of the internet in the UK.…

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(Via The Register – Public Sector.)

Virgin Atlantic sacks 13 over Facebook comments: “Virgin Atlantic has dismissed 13 staff because of comments they made on social networking site Facebook. The staff, all cabin crew, broke the company’s policies, the airline said.”

(Via OUT-LAW News.)

Businesses don’t trust police over e-crime, survey finds: “Electronic crime is becoming more common and more sophisticated, partly because the UK police response is inadequate, large firms have said. Most do not report e-crime because they do not have faith in investigating authorities, a survey has found.”

(Via OUT-LAW News.)

Count page views, not site visits, when suing for internet libel: “Courts cannot assume that online material has been read without some evidence in libel cases, a court has ruled. The court cannot simply infer from statistics on website visits that certain people have read a particular article, it said.”

(Via OUT-LAW News.)