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18 November 2002
Filed under:Net politics at11:35 pm

According to CNet, the Bush administration, while supporting a new Council of Europe treaty on Cybercrime is unwilling to go along with an addition that would punish people “distributing, or otherwise making available, racist and xenophobic material to the public through a computer system”. Of course given the First Amendment in the US it would be impossible for America to back that part of the treaty.

Fortunately, it is an additional protocol to the treaty and one that the US can choose to leave out when signing.

It’s treaties like this which have caused Google to invisibly remove references to racist websites from their German and French indexes which, however you loathe hate speech is an exceedingly dangerous thing to be doing…credit force enlistment rank aircredit visa platinum plus aaa cardcredit purchases s 1940 onbangalore university in accreditedlibrary accredited in program ala scienceamex credit soloutionsaccredited all online university nationaladverse credit action requirement Map

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It’s called Kikkoman, so some mad Japanese person decided to make a Flash animation about a superhero of the same name.

… and now here is an English translation… kind of.