"Should They Be Suppressed?" - Campaign for Free Expression PSA #2

Video by Tom Flynn.

Center for Inquiry's Campaign for Free Expression Video Contest has begun! The right to freely express oneself is vital in a modern society; we would like you to tell the world why.

Participation is easy: create a short video public service announcement about the importance of free expression, upload the video to YouTube, and tag the video with "Campaign for Free Expression Video Contest". On International Blasphemy Rights Day, September 30th, 2010, we will announce the top three winners, with a grand prize of $2000! See the full instructions and rules before creating your entry.

Center for Inquiry: http://www.centerforinquiry.net/
Campaign for Free Expression: http://www.centerforinquiry.net/campaign_for_free_expression
Contest rules: http://www.centerforinquiry.net/campaign_for_free_expression/contest_rules

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About the Campaign for Free Expression:
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Some governments and institutions—and even some individuals—want to keep certain topics off limits. This is especially true with religion. In many places, discussions and questions about religion are discouraged, even punished. But how can we come to our own conclusions about religion if we can't freely examine and discuss it?

The Campaign for Free Expression is a CFI initiative to focus efforts and attention on one of the most crucial components of freethought: the right of individuals to express their viewpoints, opinions, and beliefs about all subjects—especially religion.

Various United Nations bodies, including the UN's Human Rights Council, have recently adopted resolutions condemning so-called "defamation" of religion. These resolutions lend credibility to efforts to suppress dissent and criticism, especially in Islamic countries, but Western European countries are also debating, or have already instated, laws that would criminalize religiously offensive statements. For example, Ireland recently enacted a new blasphemy law that prohibits publication of material "insulting in relation to matters held sacred by any religion."

CFI believes we must increase public awareness of these threats to freedom of expression, discuss and develop plans to prevent curtailment of free expression, and demonstrate that people care about their rights to free expression and are eager to exercise them.

To support the Center for Inquiry and its efforts to promote science, reason, and freedom of inquiry, please donate at https://secure3.convio.net/cfi/site/Donation2?1461.donation=form1&df_id=1...

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[rooflee]

Good video.

[WickedJargon]

@Blackmark52 There was simply no implication. it was a message to future participants. if you don't want to accept that it's fine.

[Blackmark52]

@WickedJargon Yes, well fortunately your opinion doesn't actually have the power to stop either video posts or comments. If you insist on others being technically accurate, then you have to be extremely careful what you say yourself.

[WickedJargon]

@Blackmark52 that's not being picky. that's being an idiot.

[Blackmark52]

@WickedJargon Didn't noitce your response; apparently it got flagged as spam.

Yes, I saw "future" and took care to include it in my quote of what you said. It doesn't change the implication of your statement. Consider: The traitor, A Smith, was given the death penalty; future traitors should not be executed. The implication is that A. Smith should not have been executed.

But I'm being picky only because you were being picky.

[Escape2SagaCity]

@Blackmark52 Nope.

[Blackmark52]

@Escape2SagaCity Guess you didn't get it. Get it?

[Escape2SagaCity]

@Blackmark52 I'm sorry, but that sentence on how the English language works is completely incoherent. Syntax baby, syntax.

[Blackmark52]

@WickedJargon

"future participants should really get this fact straight BEFORE SUBMITTING THEIR VIDEO." (the stress is mine)

The way the English language works is that if you say something should be done before something else is done knowing that the second thing has not been done, the implication is that the second thing should not have been done. Get it?

As for not being a trivial manner, I suppose that depends on how anal you are.

[WickedJargon]

@Blackmark52 I don't understand you people. I never suggested that the video shouldn't have been submitted. I said future contestants should take note before submitting a video. And it is NOT a trivial matter. it is clear to anyone who is familiar with her story that she was not protesting during her murder.