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Vainglorious Coward writes:
The hollywood lobbyist who once compared a video recorder to the Boston Strangler, Jack Valenti, has died at age 85. If I don't offer my condolences am I stealing from his memory?
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Vainglorious Coward writes:
Reality continues to catch up with Nineteen Eighty-Four with the announcement of the development of a brain scanner that can read a person's intentions. 'It's like shining a torch around, looking for writing on a wall,' said the leader of the project, Professor John-Dylan Haynes . Demonstrating his own mastery of doublethink, Haynes continued 'We see the danger that this might become compulsory one day, but we have to be aware that if we prohibit it, we are also denying people who aren't going to commit any crime the possibility of proving their innocence.'
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Vainglorious Coward writes:
http://slashdot.org/~Vainglorious+Coward/journal/1 52078
Sorry, I can't figure out how to submit journal entries as story submissions
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Vainglorious Coward writes:
In the UK, a man has been sentenced to three years in prison for posting inflammatory messages to a website. Pleading guilty to inciting racial hatred on a site dedicated to the memory of a murdered black teenager, the 30-year old accused stated that he was not racist, and had intended to stir up an argument on the website, but did not believe in what he had written. The defending lawyer described her client as "isolated and living in a fantasy world, spending hours on his computer in his room where his persona could be as he made it, good or bad."
Criminalising inciteful behavior is one thing, but three years for six messages seems a stiffer penalty than he might have received if he'd actually physically assaulted somebody.
