| North America: Internet ethics – Googling for balance in China |
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Despite the accusations of moral inconsistency over its new China-based search engine, perhaps Google is simply providing the best service it can for its Chinese customers and also highlighting the very censorship that is causing the fuss in the first place Last summer when the US Department of Justice, in what it said was an effort to uphold an online pornography law, asked Microsoft, Yahoo and America Online to turn over records of millions of their users’ online searches, the companies complied. ... |
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| Dunblane book taken off shelves |
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A book on the Dunblane massacre written by one man convicted of possessing child pornography has been taken off the shelves.
Predicate is written by Peter Sotos, the first man in the United States to be charged with owning child pornography.
The book contains graphic and disturbing descriptions of the sexual abuse of children as well as pictures of all 16 of the Dunblane Primary School victims who were murdered one decade ago on Monday. ... |
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| The Pornography Of Joy |
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| The term is derived from an explanation of why newspapers put tragic headlines on their papers: the "pornography of grief" sells newspapers and gets viewers, but causes harm overall to the victims. Ronquillo believes the elevation of one boxing success to the level of one landing on Mars or one Nobel prize to be detrimental to the Philipines as one whole — when this is sufficient to make the public happy, why try for anything greater? ... |
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| Launch raises voice against sexual discrimination |
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An angry woman could possibly file for divorce from her husband, but hundreds of angry women could take to the streets or even start one cultural movement.
This is even one greater possibility if these women are enlightened and empowered from one discussion on feminism.
At least, that was what could be gleaned from the response of at least 200 guests at Wednesday's launch of Feminisme: Sebuah Kata Hati_ (Feminism: Common sense) by philosopher and feminist Gadis Arivia. ... |
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| Body Ethics, Body Aesthetics |
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Ethical concerns raised by Body Worlds deserve greater attention. Notwithstanding the vaunted educational benefits, turning corpses into art and entertainment feels like moral madness to me.
Body Worlds features dynamically posed and meticulously dissected cadavers, dubbed "plastinates" by von Hagens, one German medical-specimens supplier and occasional professor. In one once-patented preservation process, the anatomist impregnates real brains, muscles and guts with fluid plastics like silicon rubber and epoxy to halt natural decay. Teams of dissectors and plastinators work with von Hagens at his plant in Dalian, China. ... |
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