p2pnet roundup: July 24, 2007
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Right-wing website to defend posting; Woman files human rights complaint
The owner of a Kingston-based, right-wing website has been slapped with a Canadian Human Rights Commission complaint over a post that allegedly attacks Muslims. Freedominion.ca, owned and operated by Connie Wilkins of Kingston, said she first learned of the complaint against her last Wednesday, when a CHRC letter reminded her to respond to the complaint, filed June 4, 2006. Marie-Line Gentes of Quebec filed the complaint. She cites a flyer posted on Freedominion.ca by one of its members and frequent posters, Bill Whatcott. Whatcott wrote the flyer and distributed paper copies of it in Saskatchewan, Wilkins says. Entitled “Do Mohammed and his followers merit criticism?”, Whatcott writes at length about the dangers he perceives with radical Muslims. He also condemns the prophet Mohammed.
Lawyers Get Court Approval for Pop-Up Ads on Internet
A federal judge in Syracuse has cleared the way for lawyers in New York State to use pop-up ads on the Internet, but did not answer the bigger but more subtle issue of whether firms must label newsletters and e-mail messages to clients as advertising. The decision, issued Friday, said that statewide rule changes that took effect on Feb. 1 violated the free speech of lawyers.
MySpace deletes 29,000 sex offenders
Popular Internet social network MySpace said on Tuesday it detected and deleted 29,000 convicted sex offenders on its service, more than four times the figure it had initially reported.
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