France bans ‘happy slapping’

In Australia we had a particularly horrific case recently where some teenagers at a not particularly reputable school assaulted a girl and not only filmed it, but made a fairly professional looking DVD out of it. There is a fairly spectacular missing of the point of stuff like Jackass, which is that the Jackass “stars” perform violence on themselves, voluntarily.

I eagerly await governments bringing in laws against “being a fuckwit”.

Turkish court bans youTube

Apparently someone used it to say that a figure, who is a little more important than god, was gay.

Yes. Absolutely. That’s what bloggers (read: brothers) are for :)
We can set uploading facilities on our sites and publish what they upload to them, after setting a simple protocol.

However, Don’t think it’s the technicalities of publishing that are the problem. Most video and photo hosting services can be dealt with by [almost] anonymous accounts, and more anonymity can be achieved using the proper techniques.

This would be feasible if the law criminalises photographing and publishing, but not linking to what’s already on the web.

Rather, it’s the existance of the law itself that matters, and needs to be acted upon by liberties activists in the streets.

i am really shocked, such a law could be issued in Syria, Egypt or Jordon.

let’s publish a general call to French citizens that brave Egyptian bloggers have a long history of covering violence and we are willing to help them.

Re: “harsh on the french”… I’m critical of the french govt (which I think is much worse than the american govt) not the french people.. That’s why I’m willing to help out any french activist who wants to campaign against this draconian law, and I’m willing to post whatever videos they are willing to leak to the egyptian blogosphere if they fear persecution.