Should freedom of speech be kept on a tight leash?
Can there be absolute freedom of speech? Should there be more liberty given to the citizens with respect to the freedom of speech? Should every individual #39;s personal #39;sentiments #39; be given so...
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Social Media Ki Azaadi
Supreme Court uphold freedom of speech in a historic decision to scrap draconian Section 66A of IT act which allowed immediate arrest of people posting #39;offensive #39; content online. Sanjay Pugalia ...
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Modi Govt Always Supported Freedom Of Speech On Social Media: Ravi Shankar
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SC On section 66A of IT Act : Freedom of Speech Wins - The Newshour Debate (24th March 2015)
In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court today struck down a controversial provision in the cyber law providing for arrest for posting allegedly "offensive" content on websites saying, it is...
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A court in Turkey this week sentenced two cartoonists to 11 months and 20 days in prison for insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Soon after, the court changed the jail sentence to a fine of 7,000 Turkish lira or about $2,700 each.
Cartoonists Bahadir Baruter and Ozer Aydogan draw for the weekly satirical magazine Penguen. Founded in 2002 with a weekly average of 65,000 readers, the irreverent comic book -- similar in many ways to the French magazine Charlie Hebdo -- regularly skewers Turkish politicians.
A defamation suit was filed against an August cover of Penguen in which a cartoon figure of Erdogan is welcomed to the presidential palace by a public servant. Erdogan tells him, "But this is so dry. We could have at least slaughtered a journalist."
In a statement to the press, the Penguen team explained that a citizen who described himself as an Erdogan supporter "sent an email to the Prime Ministry Information Center. ... According to the notice, the employee (in the cartoon) 'made the gay signal with his fingers.' "
Turkey's public prosecutor eventually launched an investigation, claiming that both the speech bubbles and the "hand drawing" insulted Erdogan.
While the court ruled Wednesday in favor of Erdogan, a full-length explanation of the verdict will be released in a week to 10 days. It is so far unclear whether the judge ruled that the speech bubbles or the "gay hand gesture" or both were an insult.
The ruling comes amid an increase in criminal cases lodged against journalists, students and public figures for "defamation against a public officer." In 2014, Turkey was ranked one of the world's worst jailers of journalists by the media watchdog group Reporters Without Borders and its press status "not free" by Freedom House.
The Council of Europe's commissioner for human rights, Nils Muinieks, expressed his concern about the ruling against Penguen as well as the surge in criminal cases against people accused of insulting Erdogan.
"This sentence is misguided and, along with a pattern of criminal prosecutions, sends a chilling message to media professionals and all those who want to exercise their right to free expression," Muinieks said.
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If U.S. high-school graduates don't understand the principles of freedom and equality essential to American government and the historical roots of these principles, how can we expect them to affirm and defend these principles as adults?
Many people are quick to blame teachers for the shortcomings of America's schools. And the shortcomings should be obvious.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress has shown consistently that many students, in the fields of U.S. history and government, among others, are not even mastering the basics
For example, the most recent NAEP U.S. history exam, in 2010, found just 12 percent of all U.S. high-school seniors scoring at or above the "proficient" level, which the Institute of Education Sciences describes as the level representing "solid academic performance to which all students ... should aspire."
In civics - the test covering the subject of U.S. government - the scores were somewhat better, but still, slightly less than one fourth of all high school seniors performed at or above the "proficient" level.
We often hear about the need to improve education in the STEM subjects of science, technology, engineering and math. But American students perform worse on American history tests than in any other subject.
It's unfair to blame America's 125,000 social studies teachers, however. In the 17 years I've been with the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University in Ashbrook, Ohio, some 8,000 teachers from across the country have participated in our educational programs. So I've had ample opportunity to interact with many teachers and know from first-hand experience they're not the problem.
The problem is the way teachers are trained. Teachers spend too much time learning how to teach - the mechanics of pedagogy - and not enough time learning what to teach.
Without a major change in how teachers are taught, America will continue down the same path, raising generation after generation of students who do not understand what it means to be an American, who equate freedom of speech with "selfies," who believe freedom of religion requires purging religion from the public square, who think our Founding Fathers - denigrated in popular culture as dead old white men - are irrelevant.
They also may end up thinking of Sam Adams solely as a beer company. Or associate Washington and Lincoln as having something to do with President's Day, a holiday when everybody goes shopping. Or The Fourth of July merely as an occasion for fireworks and a cookout.
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Students must fully understand the principles that make America great
Creationist Lenny Claims The Problem Of Evil Disproves Atheism
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Theistic Evolutionists lean towards atheism
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Duck Dynasty Star #39;s Bizarre Rape Murder Speech Against Atheism
" #39;Duck Dynasty #39; patriarch Phil Robertsondelivered a bizarre speech in which he created a hypothetical scenario about an atheist being forced to watch his "little atheist daughters" get raped...
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The Transhumanist Wager- TwinCities+
The Transhumanist Wager - Twin Cities Transhumanist Book Club #2 This is a broadcast of TwinCities+ book club. Update- The author of this month #39;s book, Zoltan Istvan, will be visiting remotely to in.
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Astronomers have used data from NASAs Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory to find that dark matter interacts with itself less than previously thought. In an effort to learn more about dark matter, astronomers observed how galaxy clusters collide with each other -- an event that could hold clues about the mysterious invisible matter that makes up most of the mass of the universe.
As part of a new study, published in the journal Science on Thursday, researchers used the Hubble telescope to map the distribution of stars and dark matter after a collision. They also used the Chandra observatory to detect the X-ray emission from colliding gas clouds.
Dark matter is an enigma we have long sought to unravel, John Grunsfeld, assistant administrator of NASAs Science Mission Directorate in Washington, said in a statement. With the combined capabilities of these great observatories, both in extended mission, we are ever closer to understanding this cosmic phenomenon.
According to scientists, galaxy clusters are made of three main components -- galaxies, gas clouds and dark matter. During collisions, the gas clouds bump into each other and gradually slow down. Galaxies, on the other hand, are much less affected by this process, and because of the huge gaps between the stars within them, galaxies do not slow each other down.
We know how gas and stars react to these cosmic crashes and where they emerge from the wreckage, David Harvey of the cole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne in Switzerland, and the studys lead author, said in the statement. Comparing how dark matter behaves can help us to narrow down what it actually is.
The researchers studied 72 large galaxy cluster collisions and found that, like galaxies, the dark matter continued straight through the collisions without slowing down much, meaning that dark matter do not interact with visible particles.
There are still several viable candidates for dark matter, so the game is not over. But we are getting nearer to an answer, Harvey said.
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Kabul #39;s Security Advisor
Around twelve thousand foreign troops will remain in Afghanistan this year to continue to support the Afghan forces. Kabul #39;s security advisor Col John Graham shows us what NATO #39;s new Afghan...
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16th Anniversary of NATO Bombing of Serbia
NATO started their 3 month bombing campaign, "Operation Allied Forces", on March 24th, 1999. This campaign led to the bombing of almost all of the bridges in Serbia, oil refineries, factories,...
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Sweden, NATO intercept 4 Russian planes over Baltic Sea
Swedish and NATO fighter jets have intercepted four Russian aircraft flying over the Baltic Sea with their transponders switched off. Swedish officials say they intercepted two Russian Backfire...
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