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By Corynne McSherry | Electronic Frontier Foundation | — Well done, Team Internet. After a year of intense activism, we may have finally convinced the Federal Communications Commission to change course and craft clear, bright-line rules to protect the open internet, based on legal authority that will actually survive the inevitable legal challenge. According to […]

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Fast Times at ISIS High: What Terrorists Want to Teach your Children (Taiwan Spoof)

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Taiwanese Animators | (ISISville Series) – “Welcome to ISISville! The animated series that examines life under the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant! You’ve read the headlines. So you know ISIS is growing in power as the terrorist organization murders thousands of innocent Muslims as it tightens its stranglehold on parts of Iraq and […]

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Over 80 Cartoonists And Comics Workers Boycott Israeli Occupation Firms

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By IMEMC News & Agencies Report post More than 80 cartoonists and other workers in the comics industry, including colorists, writers, critics, and editors, from over 20 countries, signed an open letter this week addressed to Franck Bondoux, the head of the International Festival of Comics at Angoulême, which opened in France on January 29th. […]

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The real Meaning of Fox’s “Fair and Balanced”

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Charlie Hebdo & French ‘Secularism’: Does it really just privilege White Christians?

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By Mayanthi Fernando | The Conversation Commentators in France and elsewhere have taken the recent terrorist attacks in Paris as an occasion to reflect more broadly about Muslims in France. Many read the attacks as a sign of French Muslims’ refusal to integrate. They’ve asked whether Muslims can be fully secular and expressed doubt as […]

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‘State of War’ & Surveillance won’t help Press Freedom after ‘Charlie’

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By A. D. McKenzie | PARIS (IPS) – In the wake of last week’s attack on French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo that left 12 people dead, a heated battle of opinion is being waged in France and several other countries on the issue of freedom of expression and the rights of both media and the […]

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Fox ‘News’ Schooled By French ‘Daily Show’ On Muslim ‘No-Go Zones’

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AJ+ | — “The host of France’s “Le Petit Journal,” Yann Barthès, asked his audience to flood Fox News with claims about Parisian “no-go zones.” Since the Charlie Hebdo attack, several Fox guests have asserted that parts of England and France are Muslim-run, with non-Muslims and police not welcome. But Barthès did some fact-checking on […]

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Civilization’s Advance has depended on “Blasphemy” of Thinkers & Mystics

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By Farhang Jahanpour The Wednesday edition of Charlie Hebdo (a week after the barbaric attack by two deranged terrorists on its premises) carried a cartoon of Prophet Muhammad, with a caption “Je Suis Charlie”, with a tear drop on his face announcing, “all is forgiven”. It is not clear who is forgiven and for what, […]

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Paris Rally: Charlie Hebdo Team regret not Parading Caricatures of Hypocritical World Leaders

Juan Cole

Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) Le Monde reported on the Charlie Hebdo team at the Paris rally on Sunday, the largest demonstrations in France since the end of World War II. They were emotionally exhausted, having lived through a nightmarish week that saw 10 of their colleagues murdered in cold blood. (One of the staffers […]