Archive for the ‘Information’ Category
Monday, August 29th, 2011 by Azarius
In economically developed social-democracies, the greatest part of contemporary debates over free speech and censorship revolve around three broad areas: intellectual property, defamation and obscenity. The current opinionated article will focus on obscenity law as a menace to free speech. To better understand this state of affairs, it is required that we examine the relatively short but complex history of obscenity as a legal concept. This history of the concept will focus on two countries: the United Kingdom, birthplace of obscenity law, and the United States, rife with unique legal circumstances which have come about from many controversial precedent-setting cases.
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. What is provided here is intended for casual informational purposes only.
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Sunday, October 3rd, 2010 by Azarius
Contrary to what this website looks like, we are not dead. Not yet. We just lack motivation. And active members. 4, 5 or even 6½ busy people cannot realistically sustain a community on the Internet. Unless it’s more family-like, like our IRC channel which is quite very alive still. But said channel has little to do with campaigning to protect free speech. Oh, it’s still radically freedom-loving at its core.
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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 by Azarius
Along with the increasing amount of comments we receive, we also get an ever increasing number of comments that are never published on the site and are rather promptly deleted. In other words, Yes to Freedom does “censor” certain comments from an internal point of view. As we are an organisation that claims to fight for absolute freedom of speech, explaining the reasons behind such moderation is becoming pressing.
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Monday, January 25th, 2010 by Azarius
This weekend, http://yestofreedom.org was hit by an attack of unprecedented scale, originating from an unknown source. We are not in the position to blame anyone or any organisation, but would like to remind users that someone, whether intentionally or not, is probably breaking the law to stop us.
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Tags: attack, CAPTCHA, spam, statistics, website
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Friday, December 18th, 2009 by Azarius
As both of yestofreedom‘s current campaigns are related to Japanese subculture, and more precisely anime and manga, we have deemed relevant to create, in a line of thought similar to Wikipedia‘s Wikipe-tan, our own “-tan” anime-styled mascot.
We have named said character Freedom-tan – or, in Japanese, Jiyū-tan (自由たん) - as a clear reference to our goals and ideals. While her rather diminutive frame is somewhat meant as a reference to our campaign on lolicon art, her usual items hold a more mainstream meaning. The pen/brush is a way of defining writing as a “peaceful weapon”. The art palette, on the other hand, stands as a shield – art – against censorship and everything yestofreedom opposes. Finally, the feather, official logo of yestofreedom, symbolizes both freedom itself, through its link with bird-like features.
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Tags: Campaign, Freedom, Freedom-tan, Jiyu, Jiyu-tan, Mascot
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Saturday, November 28th, 2009 by Arokan
When you want to make a change in society, you deliver the message in a way society understands: you don’t make adverts for coke in London in hindu, and you don’t plaster swastikas all over your games in Germany, instead you plaster your adverts with good looking scantily clothed models and legions of fans telling us how amazing your product is.
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Tags: advertising, Campaign, free speech, freedom of speech, Future
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Thursday, September 24th, 2009 by Azarius
Browsing through the comments on a recent post at Sankaku Complex that featured Yes to Feedom, I stumbled across these words of wisdom:
Actualy [sic] by all logical means.
Equality should support hentai as hard as they could.
But they don’t think logicaly [sic] do they?
So now, do radical feminists think “logically”? The normal, reactionary answer of most readers of this very post would be that “such people can’t be logical”, that they “obviously are acting on the impulse of emotion”.
I beg to differ. Most women – and men – that militate among organisations such as Equality Now, the very kind Yes to Freedom is fighting against, are in no way short of intelligence and logic. Equality Now’s past campaigns hint to this quite conclusively.
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Tags: Censorship, Equality Now, Logic, Reasoning, Truth
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Sunday, August 2nd, 2009 by Sycamore
Freedom of speech is among the most important things we are given as humans. We have naturally gained the ability to let our creativity flow through the many streams and rivers that are our imagination. To say you may speak and imagine what you wish as long as it conforms to what “we” believe is not true freedom of speech, and to deny freedom of speech is to corrupt, decay, corrode, and stagnate society. To believe in freedom of speech is to look beyond our initial judgements and stereotypes and even tolerate ideals that we disagree with, thus increasing the diversity of our culture and ideals. The only speech that should ever be impeded is that which inhibits another person’s human rights.
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Tags: fiction, free speech, freedom of speech, imagination, tagme
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