Tagged for the Vlog Press Kit. Dang.
Jan On 3/7/07, Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Liberté, égalité, fraternité. Whatever. > It's depressing. Even more depressing that a country as big and rich > and 'free' as France can take such a huge step towards state control > without anybody hearing about it. You will be all right in the US. > Your current administration would have loved to pass a law like this > if it could have, of course. But it can't without a massive debate > about the first amendment. We're not lucky enough in the UK to have > a written constitution, or anything concrete that protects freedom of > speech or of the press. It's all about public approval and press > power here. Using 'happy slapping' as justification like the French > did, is a typically cynical and depressingly successful way to bring > the public with you on bad law. Hopefully, the press here would > fight something like this. But you never know. We've had some bad, > bad laws passed here since 9/11 with barely a murmur from the press. > Like it being a criminal offence to express any protest within 1 mile > radius of the houses of parliament, effectively killing > demonstrations and dissent in the center of London. Many people have > been convicted, just for exercising their democratic right to free > speech. So, you never know. Got to use our voices and the internet > if it starts to happen here. Pity the French didn't do the same. > > On 7 Mar 2007, at 02:43, bordercollieaustralianshepherd wrote: > > Trying to trick it by replying to my own post > > France bans citizen journalists from reporting violence > > I know this is across the pond. It still troubles me. > > http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/03/06/franceban/index.php > "The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that > criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people > other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the > imprisonment of eyewitnesses who film acts of police violence, or > operators of Web sites publishing the images, one French civil > liberties group warned on Tuesday".<snip> > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- The Faux Press - better than real http://fauxpress.blogspot.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
