#liberty

prplcdclnw@diasp.eu

Open Letter to College and University Presidents on Student Protests

Academic freedom and free speech are essential. Universities must protect them.

https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/open-letter-to-college-and-university-presidents-on-student-protests

  • Schools must not single out particular viewpoints for censorship, discipline, or disproportionate punishment
  • Schools must protect students from discriminatory harassment and violence
  • Schools can announce and enforce reasonable content-neutral protest policies but they must leave ample room for students to express themselves
  • Schools must recognize that armed police on campus can endanger students and are a measure of last resort
  • Schools must resist the pressures placed on them by politicians seeking to exploit campus tensions

#aclu #american-civil-liberties-union #free-speech #freedom #liberty #academic-freedom #university #universities #protests #free-expression #civil-liberties #university-presidents

prplcdclnw@diasp.eu

US Universities Should Respect Right to Protest

End Crackdown on Peaceful Pro-Palestinian Protests

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/04/26/us-universities-should-respect-right-protest

There have been troubling reports of antisemitic incidents in and around Columbia University’s campus. Allegations of antisemitic acts and speech by individuals, as well as acts of Islamophobia and other forms of discrimination, should be investigated and addressed on the merits in a case-by-case basis, through fair and transparent processes.\
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As protests spread to campuses across the country, university administrations should be careful not to mislabel criticism of Israeli government policies or advocacy for Palestinian rights as inherently antisemitic or to misuse university authority to quash peaceful protest. Instead, universities should safeguard people’s rights to assembly and free expression.

#free-speech #freedom #liberty #human-rights #human-rights-watch #hrw #palestine #gaza #israel #protest #protests #columbia-university #islamophobia #antisemitism

prplcdclnw@diasp.eu

The GPL Summarized

by me from a recent comment of mine.

OK. If you insist on copyright, I’ll use my legal privileges granted by copyright law to prevent the use of almost all of those privileges by me or anyone else. I’ll only insist that my work must be attributed to me, and that my work, even if mixed in with the work of others, must always be distributed under exactly the same terms that I distributed it.

Two of the privileges included in "almost all" are the exclusive privilege of creating and distributing verbatim copies of my work, and the exclusive privilege of creating and distributing derivative works derived from my work. Of course, "my work," if that work is software compiled from source code, refers primarily to the source code, but also to the compiled object code.

#copyright #gpl #free-software #open-culture #proprietary-software #freedom #liberty #unfree-software

wist@diasp.org

A quotation from Russell, Bertrand

Since freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure, it is important that the government should have the approval of the great majority of the population and should deal with discontented minorities, wherever possible, in a manner calculated to allay their discontent. A government must possess force, but cannot be a satisfactory government unless force is seldom necessary.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
“Freedom and Government,” in Ruth Nanda Anshen, ed., Freedom: Its Meaning (1940)

#quote #quotes #quotation #force #freedom #government #security #freedomofopinion #freedomofthought #liberty #majority #minority #populargovernment
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/russell-bertrand/3391/

prplcdclnw@diasp.eu

Pluralistic: You can't shop your way out of a monopoly (05 Mar 2024)

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/05/the-map-is-not-the-territory/#apor-locksmith

We want to be able to vote with our wallets, because it's so much faster and more convenient than voting with our ballots. But the vote-with-your-wallet election is rigged for the people with the thickest wallets. Try as hard as you'd like, you just can't shop your way out of a monopoly – that's like trying to recycle your way out of the climate emergency. Systemic problems need systemic solutions – not individual ones.

#cory #doctorow #cory-doctorow #monopoly #competition #democracy #freedom #liberty

prplcdclnw@diasp.eu

Hong Kong: Governments Should Oppose Security Bill

86 Groups Urge Rebukes, Sanctions Against Beijing’s Latest Assault on Rights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yjLlYNFKCg

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/02/19/hong-kong-governments-should-oppose-security-bill

National governments should strongly oppose the Hong Kong government’s introduction of so-called Article 23 national security legislation, which will further devastate human rights protections in Hong Kong, 86 civil society groups including Human Rights Watch, said today in a joint statement. On January 30, 2024, the Hong Kong government announced a four-week “public consultation” period for a new national security law under Article 23 of the Basic Law, Hong Kong’s de facto constitution.

#hong-kong #香港 #freedom #liberty #自由 #china #human-rights #human-rights-watch #hrw #glory-to-hong-kong

wist@diasp.org

A quotation from Jacobs, Jane

I do not think military readiness, in itself, will defeat Communism. I do not think we can consider the job finished with that. I think it buys us time to do the bigger job. We must demonstrate that it is possible to overcome poverty, misery and decay by democratic means, and that we must ourselves believe, and must show others, that our American tradition of the dignity and liberty of the individual is not a luxury for easy times but is the basic source of strength and security of a successful society.

Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) American-Canadian journalist, author, urban theorist, activist
“No Virtue in Meek Conformity” (1952)

#quote #quotes #quotation #America #communism #democracy #internationalrelations #liberty #military #model #power #success
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/jacobs-jane/66228/

prplcdclnw@diasp.eu

Saudi Crown Prince Confirms Death Sentence for Tweets

https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/09/22/saudi-crown-prince-confirms-death-sentence-tweets

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS, has confirmed that retired teacher Muhammed al Ghamdi was indeed sentenced to death for his social media posts. In an interview with Fox News on September 20, MBS admitted about the death sentence: “Shamefully, it's true,” and blamed the sentence on “bad laws.”\
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“Do we have bad laws? Yes. Are we are changing that? Yes,” he said.\
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MBS is right in saying that he is working to change bad laws: under his rule, bad laws have only become worse.

#human-rights #human-rights-watch #hrw #mbs #saudi-arabia #twitter #tweets #death-sentence #free-speech #freedom #liberty

theaitetos@diaspora.psyco.fr

The Satanic Essence of Globalism

The #Archbishop explains the nature of modern Babelism and why it seeks to #erase every aspect of #Christianity from #society:

The essence of #globalism is #satanic, and the essence of #Satanism is #globalist. Because #Satan’s plan is to establish the #reign of the #Antichrist, allowing him to parody #Christ’s earthly life, to imitate His miracles with grotesque wonders, to lead crowds not with the simplicity of #Truth but with #deception and #lies. Globalism is, so to speak, the staging, the script and the scenario that must prepare humanity for the political ascent of the Antichrist, to whom the leaders of the world – his servants – will cede #national #sovereignty so that he becomes a kind of global tyrant.

But the kingdom of the Antichrist is not created out of nothing: it is first necessary to erase what remains of the kingdom of Christ in the institutions, in the culture and in the daily life of the citizens. Moral dissolution is one of the simplest means of subjugating the masses, encouraging them to vice, ridiculing virtue; and, of course, by destroying the natural family, the fundamental cell of society. Once the family is demolished, the children become commodities, products that those with money can order over the Internet, fuelling the vast and growing criminal network, not to mention the surrogacy industry. #Divorce, #abortion, #euthanasia, #homosexuality and #pansexualism, #mutilation for #gender #transition have proven to be effective tools for eliminating not only the revealed #Faith, but also the most sacred principles of #NaturalLaw.

And it is indeed a #religion, the one that is being established with the #Woke ideology; a religion which, like the true Religion but with diametrically opposed goals, intends to impose itself in society, to imbue its #dogmas into the #institutions, the #laws, the #education, the #culture, the #arts and human activities. The globalists apply the Catholic principles of “social kingship,” but proclaim Satan king of society: Te nationum præsides honore tollant publico: colant magistri, judices; leges et artes exprimant. May the rulers of the world publicly honour and extol Thee; May teachers and judges reverence Thee; May the laws and the arts bear Thy mark. These are the words of the hymn of Christ the King, but we see them applied blasphemously by the priests of the #NewWorldOrder to their king, the prince of this world, and to the Antichrist in his time.

Beware though: globalism, as an emanation of #Masonic and revolutionary thought, apparently proclaims #democracy and condemns #absolute regimes; but in fact, it knows very well that the #Monarchy of #DivineRight is the best possible form of government, because it subjugates everyone – including the king himself, who is the #Vicar of Christ in temporal things – to a #transcendent law to which everyone owes #obedience.

It’s a hard thing for many #Americans to accept that the revolutionary concepts of #freedom and #liberty and #equality around which the original #Republic was founded were #evil #philosophical #seeds planted during the #Enlightenment. But the #wicked #nature of their fruits, and the #bitter #harvest they have entailed, can hardly be denied.

digit@iviv.hu

#consider https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzUw0cR223M
worth it for that last sentiment... that idea... that awareness... that they get their censorship camel in the tent, starting with camel's nose of nazi svastikas and child porn, then they use their censorship against anything contrary to their official orthodoxy dogma doctrine whatever that may perversely become. and the camel runs away with the whole tent. democracy, science, all. #no #democracy #nor #science #under #censorship
but still... in a sea of #misinformation, everybody's a #shill. #managedoposition #controllednarrative
#freespeech

ps, bit silly in that one bit though, to think could rely upon gov to not censor and to protect free speech. #eternalvigilance #liberty

prplcdclnw@diasp.eu

Hate Speech from Modi Supporters Belies His Claims of Indian Democracy During US Visit

https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/07/05/hate-speech-modi-supporters-belies-his-claims-indian-democracy-during-us-visit

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to the United States included yoga at the United Nations, an address to the U.S. Congress that promised strides in the bilateral partnership, and a lavish state dinner at the White House with 400 guests. President Joe Biden spoke of the “unlimited potential” of ties between India and the United States.

#modi #india #democracy #freedom #liberty #hate-speech #narendra-modi #discrimination #caste #ethnicity #ethnic-prejudice #bjp #bigotry #CrimeMinisterOfIndia #minorities #potus #biden #joe-biden