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2009-01-21 "The Amsterdam appeals court has ordered the prosecution of member of parliament Geert Wilders for inciting hatred and discrimination, based on comments by him in various media on Muslims and their beliefs.
The court also considers appropriate criminal prosecution for insulting Muslim worshippers because of comparisons between Islam and Nazism made by Wilders.
In a democratic system, hate speech is considered so serious that it is in the general interest to... draw a clear line."
-- According to the Court of Appeal in Amsterdam
2008-08-05 There’s going to be an i-9/11 event. Which doesn’t necessarily mean an Al Qaeda attack, it means an event where the instability or the insecurity of the internet becomes manifest during a malicious event which then inspires the government into a response. You’ve got to remember that after 9/11 the government drew up the Patriot Act within 20 days and it was passed.

The Patriot Act is huge and I remember someone asking a Justice Department official how did they write such a large statute so quickly, and of course the answer was that it has been sitting in the drawers of the Justice Department for the last 20 years waiting for the event where they would pull it out.

Of course, the Patriot Act is filled with all sorts of insanity about changing the way civil rights are protected, or not protected in this instance. So I was having dinner with Richard Clarke and I asked him if there is an equivalent, is there an i-Patriot Act just sitting waiting for some substantial event as an excuse to radically change the way the internet works. He said “of course there is”.
-- Lawrence Lessig, Law Professor from Stanford University, told an audience at this years Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference in Half Moon Bay, California
2008-03-28 "On behalf of the European Parliament I fully reject the interpretation contained in the film that Islam is a violent religion.
The film's content seems conceived with the purpose of offending the religious senses of the Muslims in Holland, in Europe and the world.
The mutual respect and tolerance are the preconditions for Muslims, Christians and people of other faiths or without any to be able to live together in peace.
Freedom of expression is a fundamental value of the EU and must go side by side with the respect for the profound religious beliefs of the others".
-- Hans Gert Poettering, European Parliament President, in comment to yesterday's release on the Internet of the film 'Fitna'
2008-03-27 In the Netherlands, Geert Wilders published on the Internet his highly charged and much-anticipated anti-Koran 17-minute film titled “Fitna”, Arabic for civil strife.

The first 10 minutes of the film consist of a compilation of video fragments showing the victims of terrorist attacks in New York, Madrid and London. This is interspersed with translations of verses from the Koran and recordings of Islamic leaders calling for violence against non-believers.

In the last five minutes, Wilders focuses on Islam in the Netherlands. There are images of blocks of flats dotted with satellite dishes, policemen removing their shoes before entering a mosque, recordings of preaching and a selection of newspaper headlines.
2007-03 Estonia becomes the first country to allow internet voting for national parliamentary elections. The prime minister's Reform Party wins by a narrow margin.
2007-01-31 British police arrested nine people who were planning an "Iraq-style" abduction inside Britain.

The plot was to videotape and publish on the Internet the torture and beheading of a British Muslim soldier who was back in Britain after having served in Afghanistan.
2007-01 Symantec reported that at the end of 2006, there were at least six million computers illegally controlled by hackers. These PCs are called zombies (or bots).
2006-12-01 Yahoo! Inc. is based in Sunnyvale, (= Silicon Valley) California, United States
2006-12-01 According to Nielsen/NetRatings: Yahoo handled 24 percent of U.S. Internet searches in October
2006-12-01 According to Nielsen/NetRatings: Google handled 50 percent of U.S. Internet searches in October












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