Hi Alan, It's disgusting and Canada's goverment is threatening, not only civil rights by shutting these sites down, it is also breeding even more ignorance regarding climate change which has enough doubters already...
marc > This is unbelievable and hypocritical, given Canada's image in general. > Greed will kill us all. > > - Alan > > > On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, marc garrett wrote: > > >> A huffy Canada shuts down 'Yes Men'. >> >> Stung by a satire at the Copenhagen climate conference, Canada's >> government has shut down two parody Web sites criticizing the Great >> White North's glacial policy on global warming. >> >> In the process, however, it has taken down 4,500 other Web sites that >> had nothing to do with the prank played two weeks ago at the global >> climate summit. >> >> The two "offending" sites, developed by "Yes Men" pranksters, announced >> that Canada would reduce greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 40 percent >> from 1990 levels, and 80 percent by the year 2050. >> >> The "announcement" came as Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government >> was privately circulating a plan to permit a 165 percent INCREASE in >> emissions from Alberta's huge, dirty oil sands project. >> >> The two Web sites, "enviro-canada.ca" and "ec-gc.ca" are "directly >> connected to a hoax which misleads people into believing that the >> Government of Canada will take certain actions in relation to >> environmental matters," Mike Landreville from Environment Canada wrote >> in an e-mail to the German Internet Service Provider (ISP) Serveloft. >> >> "We trust you appreciate the importance of avoiding confusion among the >> public concerning Canadian governmental affairs and that you will assist >> us in preventing this hoax from spreading further." >> >> more... >> http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/189467.asp >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> >> > > > == > email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ > webpage http://www.alansondheim.org sondheimat gmail.com, panix.com > == > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
