[IMC-Video] spam sent with my name

Tue Jul 3 12:05:07 UTC 2007

this is some sort of spam.
i did not post this.
DeeDee
On Mar 8, 2007, at 9:37 AM, DeeDee Halleck wrote:

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>> From: "Lauren Coletta" <LColetta at COMMONCAUSE.org>
>> Date: March 8, 2007 9:15:18 AM EST
>> To: cc-mediareform at list.commoncause.org
>> Cc: "Mary Boyle" <mboyle at CommonCause.org>, "Ian Storrar"  
>> <IStorrar at CommonCause.org>, "Jon Goldin-Dubois" <jgd at commoncause.org>
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>> 'Happy slap' crackdown sparks row
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>> Story Highlights
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>> • New law in France forbids filming and Net posting of real-world  
>> violence
>> • Critics call it a clumsy, near-totalitarian effort to battle  
>> "happy slapping"
>> • Violators of the law will be subject to up to 5 years' jail and  
>> &euro75,000 in fines
>> PARIS, France (AP) -- A new law in France makes it a crime --  
>> punishable by up to five years in prison -- for anyone who is not  
>> a professional journalist to film real-world violence and  
>> distribute the images on the Internet.
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>> Critics call it a clumsy, near-totalitarian effort by authorities  
>> to battle "happy slapping" -- the youth fad of filming violent  
>> acts -- which most often they have provoked themselves -- and  
>> spreading the images on the Web or between mobile phones.
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>> The measure, tucked deep into a vast anti-crime law that took  
>> effect Wednesday, took media advocates by surprise with what they  
>> say is an undesirable side effect: trampling on freedom of  
>> expression.
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>> Experts said the law is the first of its kind in Europe. France  
>> made headlines years ago by ordering U.S.-based online company  
>> Yahoo to pay a fine of about $15 million for displaying Nazi  
>> memorabilia for sale -- in violation of French law.
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>> The new provision takes on "happy slapping," a phenomenon whose  
>> name belies the gravity of the attacks. It mostly involves youths,  
>> and the victims often are strangers.
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>> Violators of the law, passed in parliament in February, will be  
>> subject to up to five years in prison and &euro75,000 in fines  
>> ($98,600). It was championed by Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy,  
>> who is a top contender in France's presidential election in April  
>> and May.
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>> The law was published in the government's Official Journal on  
>> Wednesday, bringing it into effect, after the Constitutional  
>> Council gave its final approval over the weekend.
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>> Ligue Odebi, an association that seeks to protect freedom of  
>> expression on the Internet, said the measure will also hinder  
>> citizens' abilities to expose police brutality.
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>> "This makes France the Western country that most infringes on  
>> freedom of expression and information -- particularly on the  
>> Internet," the group said in a statement on its Web site,  
>> www.odebi.org
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>> "Identifying uploaders (of such images) would require the creation  
>> of a totalitarian surveillance of the Net," the group said.
>>
>> Ligue Odebi noted that the council's approval Saturday fell on the  
>> 16th anniversary of the March 3, 1991, beating of motorist Rodney  
>> King by Los Angeles police officers in a scene captured on amateur  
>> video -- a case that sparked a national outcry in the United States.
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>> The French law says that anyone who "knowingly" films illegal acts  
>> of violence and distributes the images can be considered an  
>> accomplice -- but that professional journalists are exempt.
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>> French authorities have been seeking new ways to combat youth  
>> violence after a wave of rioting, car burnings and violence mostly  
>> in poor       neighborhoods on the fringe of Paris and other  
>> cities in 2005.
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>> Media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders said it understood  
>> the government's need to crack down on "happy slapping," but  
>> feared the law draws a "dangerous" distinction that would punish  
>> "regular citizens" for doing what journalists are allowed to do.
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>> "The sections of this law supposedly dealing with 'happy slapping'  
>> in fact have a much broader scope," Reporters Without Borders said  
>> in a statement. "Posting videos online showing violence against  
>> people could now be banned, even if it were the police carrying  
>> out the violence."
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>> The measure has implications for online video sites like YouTube,  
>> or France's Dailymotion.com: Authorities could ask them to  
>> identify the sources of images made available through their sites.
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>> Lauren Coletta
>> Senior Director of Media Programs
>> lcoletta at commoncause.org
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