Just the latest evidence that violence, illogic, and emotional incontinence tends to have the last word:
In a…case pending against Google, Sao Paulo-based judge Gilson Delgado Miranda gave (YouTube) 10 days to remove video clips from "Innocence of Muslims," which has angered many Muslims around the world by its depiction of the Prophet Mohammed and his followers as thugs. After the 10-day window, Google will face fines of $5,000 a day for every day the clips remain accessible in Brazil, according to the statement on the court's website.The "Innocence of Muslims" ruling resulted from a lawsuit by a group representing Brazil's Muslim community, the National Union of Islamic Entities, which claimed the film violates the country's constitutional guarantee of religious freedom for all faiths.
Sayeth judge Miranda of his jurisprudential ruling backing Muslim demands for censorship:
"This type of jurisprudence cannot be confused with censorship."
My only comment to this is watch the New Southpark episode. Says it all.
And if that doesn't work, there's always re-education camps.
Google should instead direct every search for this video from Brazil to goat porn or gay porn. And embed an extra feature that randomly plays the porn file on the computer every 4-12 hours.
OR just direct every search from Brazil to a screen that says Miranda is a fascist dhimmi douche bag and if you want your search completed, go ask him.
Some parallels between Judge Mirandas ruling and our very own Human rights wingnuts. At least Judges have some value even if they screw up once in a while. Judge Miranda probably fears for his life knowing that Islam is the religion of peace, but You-tube wont blow up his car. Just hedging his bets.
And so continues the world-wide act of bending over for a murderous cult.
Google should black out Brazil five days for every day this judgment stands.
When will giant companies start acting like the villainous monsters that leftists portray them as?
If I owned Google, I would so be like Lex Luthor. My company motto would be, "Be evil."
Better yet, I'd route every Google search coming from Brazil to a search for the words "freedom of speech."
They'd learn quick how to use proxy servers. With that government, they should already know.
set you free, exactly, and the Toronto District School Board is working on that.
The noose of totalitarianism seems to be slowly tightening.
"This type of jurisprudence cannot be confused with censorship." No, of course not, it IS censorship!
Brazil?? Say it ain't so. :(
Looks like the US is as bad as Brazil with 187 requests to remove youtube material compared to Brazil's 194 requests.
Someone needs to remind US statists about the 1st amendment as the incidence of constitutional ignorance in the US government is astounding. I would suggest that every individual elected to public office in the US (including the POTUS) should also have to take an exam on the US constitution and, if they fail, then they can't take that office. It's one thing to give lip-service in an oath to defend the constitution but what is really needed is very detailed knowledge of what the constitution contains and the restrictions it puts on statist powers.
As far as Brazil goes, I would suggest that Google give the country a black screen for any search initiated from that country which would include Google.com. While redirecting the link to goat pron would be an amusing thing for Google to do, I think a black screen for any attempt to access a Google service from Brazil would be far more effective.
I don't know anything about Brazil's justice system, but I'm curious as to what would be the outcome if someone tried to have the koran and the other idiocies that the islamists hold to be holy to them, on the grounds that it's hate lit.
Reginald >
"Google should black out Brazil five days for every day this judgment stands."
Bingo!
Make a stand, no free speech, no business. Goggle can afford it, let the people take it to the judge.
This type of jurisprudence IS censorship. Period.
peterj @ 10:34 p.m. is right, it is like our "human rights" commissions. For example the Alberta one, which pretends that its depredations against free speech aren't violations of free speech.
Thumbs up for the blackout, but only after search criteria have been entered. Any searches that reference Islam or the judge should launch the goat pron.
'National Union of Islamic Entities'
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In the Dictionary under the heading
'Intolerant Assholes,'
it says to see them..
F--k Brazil, F--k their soviet Jurocrats and F--k their Dhimmi UN butt-snorkelling little backwater of a country. There, someone had to say it.
There was an English cat on Sun News Network the other night -- Ezra or Coren? -- who explained that in the UK people are now being routinely JAILED for not-very-nice tweets and such.
He reminded his listeners that this situation has developed despite the historic Magna Carta and that the existence of the First Amendment in the US is no guarantee.
In the immortal words of occasional sda poster dwright, "To hell with Godwin's Law ... the Nazis are HERE".
So far Brasil has wisely managed to stay on the margins of countries included in Hugo Chávez's "Bolivarian Revolution", which now includes alliance with Iran and radical Islam.
But this is like an open invitation from Brasil to the Islamists: "We want Sharia too -- don't leave Brasil out!"
@ Ken (Kulak) 10:51 PM
Should the US flag be protected from desecration by legislative methods? Curious to know what's conservatives' take on it.
rizwan it already is.
uscode.house.gov/download/pls/04C1.txt
The flag: I respect it, so you don't have to.
Burn any scraps of cloth you like. We are aware that the map is not the territory, even if you ain't.
see Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989)
So, this is the *second* Miranda decision to increase the contempt citizens feel for the courts.