hate speech

Cyberculture agenda: PEW report on Information Overload… Mr. Robot Killing the Hollywood Hacker….

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  Information Overload  Pew Internet Rss Feed: Reports Since the 1970s, the term “information overload” has captured society’s anxiety about the growth in the production of information having potentially bad consequences for people as they struggle to cope with seemingly constant streams of messages and images. The advent of the internet, it was thought, would only … Read more

Turkey is set to release up to 38,000 prisoners [for newcomers…] Updates on the Özgür Gündem raid…

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Turkey is set to release up to 38,000 prisoners Turkey is set to release 38,000 prisoners as part of two new state of emergency decrees published in the Official Gazette on Aug. 17, in an apparent move to reduce its prison population to make space for thousands of people who have been arrested as part of … Read more

To have or not to have? Erdoğan’s latest decision is that there is no Kurdish problem in Turkey…

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BIA MEDIA MONITORING 2014: Media’s 3 Years: A Summary With Graphics  Bianet :: English According to BIA Media Monitoring Report 2014, 22 journalists and 10 distributors entered the year of 2015 in prison. While the number of jailed journalists took a dive, the number of detentions, censorship and layoffs soared. Here is what happened in terms … Read more

EFD Rights Watch: Majority of educated women victim of violence in Turkey…Hrant Dink murder case deepens…

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Majority of educated women victim of violence in Turkey, survey reveals A large majority of Turkish women who work in white-collar jobs and have a university degrees say they have been exposed to violence at least once in their life Hrant Dink murder case deepens with new testimonies The list of suspects in the murder case of … Read more

EFD Rights Watch: 108 soldiers commit suicide since 2012…Columnists As Biggest Hate Speech Makers in Turkey…

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108 soldiers commit suicide since 2012, Turkish defense minister says The Turkish defense minister said that 166 soldiers have committed suicide or been killed in accidents across the country in the last year and a half 50 Percent of Rape Victims Are Children, TÜİK Says According to Statistics Institute of Turkey, sexual assault crimes have … Read more

A group of Turkey’s intellectuals demand an end to divisive language…

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Turkey artists demand an end to divisive language June 29, 2013 5:54 PM ANKARA (AFP) – Turkey’s artists, journalists and authors including Nobel laurate Orhan Pamuk on Saturday placed a full-page ad in several newspapers, calling on the government to end divisive language and stop polarising the country. Lice clashes are the Kurdish version of Gezi Park: … Read more

EFD Rights Watch: Hate Speech in Turkey’s Media… Missing Shepherds Case…Conscientious Objector Jailed…

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Report Reveals Hate Speech in Turkey’s Media from Bianet :: English A recent report released by Hrant Dink Foundation revealed hate speech practises in Turkey’s media which mostly targeted Jewish and Armenian communities Turkey Found Guilty on Missing Shepherds Case from Bianet :: English The European Court of Human Rights found Turkey guilty on the … Read more

EFD Rights Watch: Turkish PM on the verge of hate speech towards Alevis… French student detained in Turkey finally released…

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Turkish PM calls Alevi cemevi a ‘freak’ from Hurriyet Daily News An Alevi cemevi standing next to a cemetery in Istanbul is a “freak,” according to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.   ?The State is Responsible for Unlicensed Alevi Houses of Worship? from Bianet :: English Alevi Elder Muharrem Ercan questioned how their community … Read more

Turkey has to negotiate for membership with countries who have f*ckhead statesmen like Thio Sarrazin…

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Jewish gene, Muslim brains talk tarnishes Bundesbank from Hurriyet Dailynews by HDN Migrants from countries such as Turkey and Morocco depend on the state and are making the country ‘dumber,’ Bundesbank board member Thilo Sarrazin claims. Berlin launch: Anti-islam book by German bank exec Thilo Sarrazin from cafebabel.com by eurotopics The former politician launched his … Read more

YouTube vs. Viacom

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YouTube: Viacom secretly posted its videos even as they sued us for not taking down Viacom videos

from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

In a scorching post on the company’s blog, YouTube Chief Counsel Zahavah Levine accuses Viacom of going to great lengths to secretly upload videos to YouTube in order to take advantage of its promotional value even as they were suing YouTube, arguing that YouTube should be able to tell the difference between Viacom videos that were uploaded by actual infringers as opposed to Viacom employees and agents being paid to pretend to be infringers.

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