Iceland Wants To Become A Hub For Free Speech Journalism Protection
from the didn't-see-that-coming dept
Iceland got some bad press in the last year over its massive rise and devastating fall as a financial powerhouse, despite having such a tiny population. But now, the isolated island nation has decided that if it can't be the center of the financial world, it might as well become the hub for investigative journalism. It's set to announce "the strongest combination of source protection, freedom of speech, and libel-tourism prevention laws in the world." My first thought on hearing of this was that it sounded like the country wanted to become a haven for Wikileaks... and, indeed, the report at Nieman Lab says that Wikileaks was involved in drafting the new legislation. I think this is a great idea -- and the world needs places where free speech is much more seriously protected, but I do wonder how it will work in practice.
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legalize prostitution
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legalize prostitution
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The mainstream media of the U.S. will declare war on them (or, rather, they will pull some strings and congress, their puppets, will declare war on them).
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A country with no money will not be swayed by power. Think about it.
If they have the best journalistic protection, then it's even more assured that they will have significantly more power than a country with money, aka the US.
As an example, look at how sweden handles piracy issues irrespective of US sway/attempts to influence it.
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Hmm, how certain are you of this? For instance, would you consider the USA to be a "Christian" regime? I wouldn't, but others do, I suppose.
In any case, there are examples of moderate Islamic nations out there in which you probably wouldn't feel "Oppressed" in the way you might be thinking...
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Also, guerilla warfare tactics (those used my the insurgents, I wouldn't call them terrorists if they are fighting an invading force) are particularly effective against regular militaries as they work with minimal troop numbers and can inflict large casualties.
Back on topic though, yay for Iceland.
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Financial Aid
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Because there is a certain pride in Icelanders regarding these matters. The country was founded by people fleeing from Norway to retain their free speech and suppression from the central government. Almost everyone in Iceland is a direct descendant of those early founders from around 900 AD.
So being a haven for free speech and freedom from suppression is a core element in the national mythology in Iceland.
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Sounds like a recipe...
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I know you are very anti civil rights and you want unjust laws that favor you unfairly but if history has shown us anything, most laws that favor a small faction of the population eventually get demolished (though often does take a long time and a lot of hard work). I mean, not too long ago slavery used to be legal and even after slavery was reduced racial discrimination was legal and often written into various laws/the legal system. Look how far we, as a society, have progressed towards getting rid of unjust laws, do you honestly believe that your desire to create, maintain, and enforce unjust laws will continue to be satisfied for a very long period if time.
However, we must also realize that unjust laws don't just get rid of themselves. History has shown that it takes a lot of work to eliminate unjust laws and the Internet is not going to magically eliminate them either.
and as far as being able to punish those that leak information, they can't even do that now in areas without safe harbors. Heck, China can't even control information flow (much less the U.S.) and their many many attempts in the past have completely failed. Many journalists are willing to be punished (and go to jail or worse) and have been punished for not revealing their sources. The government can't jail everyone. The war on information distribution will fail just like the war on drugs and the war on terrorism.
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Many more, perhaps most, are not.
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When you think "journalist" you are probably referring to the corrupt mainstream media and so you figure that they would never sacrifice anything for something they believed was good for society. But the mainstream media does not constitute journalists, they constitute a corporate controlled criminal organization.
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Great idea for Australians
I think if they also setup hosting plans and VPN networks they could attract a lot of people from countries like China, Australia and the like!
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Do you support freedom of speech ?
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The "freedom of speech" is a one sided concept that allows people to say whatever they want without concern. Freedom of Speech is too often a cover for dishonest speech, misleading speech, and so on.
Without a fair balance between free speech and responsibility for that speech, it just becomes another abusive weapon.
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I'm sorry, but that is an absolute misunderstanding of what freedom of speech is and why it is so important. Talk like that should be reserved for elite globalists. Limiting freedom of speech is the one domino that, if removed, destroys the pyramid of freedom on the whole.
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"FIRE!"
If you are not willing to take responsibility for your speech, not accept what it does to others (especially when it ir untrue), then you haven't earned it.
Free speech isn't an absolute.
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It isn't your right to deny others their rights.
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Hahahahahahahahahaha...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.
What's your real name Mr. "Free speech for those willing to take responsibility"? Put it out in the open, and sing it loud. Address and phone number too. Let's see just how willing you are to take full responsibility for your free speech.
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TAM is a lying hypocrite to the hilt.
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After this posting, I no longer have any respect for you or anything you ever have to say. You've just lost any benefit of the doubt I was giving you. You, just like the opinions you express, are worthless.
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How can we have any sort of reasonable discourse and make any sort of progress if either party is afraid of reprisal for the things they say?
I assume you hide behind a pseudonym because you do fear consequences from your speech, however unjust those consequences may be. Perhaps even as simple as some people might (unjustifiably) take some inappropriate action against you. But you argue that everyone else should take full responsibility for everything they say because there's never any consequences?
It's not just the government to fear, it's idiots too.
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Translation: You can say whatever you want as long as I can shoot you for it.
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Sneakers 1992
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Sorry not interested ...there broke no money
SHAM ME SCAM colour me green .....
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lets sue bit torren ttrackers
http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-tracker-loses-lengthy-legal-battle-100211/
ya know like people might want to use and share FREELY
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ya know the TAM guy
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iceland
if the DB's are free, (not copyright) LOTS of people will be linking in there, don't you think?
sounds like the place irsh monks discovered is gonna BURIED under nat. enquirier reporting to me.
I want to move there. We'll see how the ref goes..
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From a common sense perspective, no one owes you a monopoly on anything and as such, any time someone buys a piece of work from you that you have copy privileges on, they are giving you UNOWED money. and all the money that you claim they should pay you for infringement is UNOWED. and all the money that courts grant you from those who infringe on your privileges is UNOWED money. We shouldn't allow your privilege to collect unowed money to get in the way of our rights.
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What about when the servers all end up in Iceland?
Perhaps not the US, UK, China etc. but smaller countries with smoother legal systems and no real industry might start to recognize the economic potential that 100 technophiles and 10,000 servers might offer their nation.
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