In a report released yesterday, entitled “Cyber Violence Against Women And Girls: A Global Wake-up Call,” UN Women, the group behind last year’s risible “He for She” campaign, called on governments to use their “licensing prerogative” to ensure that “telecoms and search engines” are only “allowed to connect with the public” if they “supervise content and its dissemination.”
In other words, if search engines and ISPs don’t comply with a list of the UN’s censorship demands, the UN wants national governments to cut off their access to the public.
So, what sort of content does the UN want to censor? ISIS recruitment videos, perhaps, which lure women into lives of rape and servitude? Live-streamed executions from Syria? Revenge porn or snuff videos? There’s no shortage of dangerous and potentially traumatising content on the web, after all, much of it disproportionately affecting women.
Alas not. The UN is hung up on “cyber violence against women,” a Kafkaesque term that is apparently shorthand for “women being criticised on the internet.” At least, that’s how at least two attendees at the launch of the UN report, published by the United Nations Broadband Commission, explained it yesterday.
I’m sorry, and I know I don’t speak for all women, but:
1) Censorship and political correctness don’t lead to solutions to the problems that they think exist.
2) People tend to rebel against those who try to control them unnecessarily.
3) If I let words hurt me, if they’re just words and not actions, it is up to me to decide how I’m going to feel.
4) Learning to deal with adversity is a skill set that everyone needs to learn. Without practice, I cannot learn.
5) Nobody likes whiny babies. Grow up.
6) Oh, and there’s something called “free speech”. I know that many countries don’t allow it, and our country is on the brink of losing this right, but we still have it and we can and should exercise it, dangit.
Yessir I did, it is a beautiful truck. That system of running on 4 cylinders while cruising is awesome, it goes back and forth and you can’t feel it. And the back up cam, that will be nice for backing up to trailers. His is the cream white color, I always liked it. Ford has a color like that as… Read more »
GJT, Did you see #47?
Second!
The weekend is over!
Mornin’ Gang
BTW -I highly recommend “War Room”. Go see it.
Let’s just say that the new password that was given to me when I reset the router didn’t work on any devices. Nor did the old one.
/sigh
It’s a gift.
Cyber fires have no smell.
Wireless frying is smokeless.
Tedtam, what do you mean, you fried everything? Actual smell of burning wires? Or just metaphorically?
Seen on FB.
Under the posted story THE MYSTERY OF POPE FRANCIS: WAS THERE A VATICAN COUP?
This comment:
Just got back onto the internet. I tried to fix access to our home network for the printer in my office, and ended up frying access for everything. Fortunately, we have a tenant who owes us and is quite savvy with these things.
I’m back.
Well, with all the speculation of how Francis 1 was elected and Benedict 16 “retired”, it might be enlightening to know that in the Middle Ages there was the unpleasantness called the Western Schism during which time there were two popes and eventually three before all was, umm, worked out. And all politics from start to finish.
http://www.britannica.com/event/Western-Schism
I stumbled across this and found it interesting. She calls herself a hairstyle archaeologist. That the ancient sculptures had enough detail to make this possible is interesting. Anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/user/jntvstp
TEXPAT:
Chag Sameach Sukkot
#53 bone
The teasippers need sumpin to get themselves all up in a whiny lather every now and then.
Here’s a little insight as to what’s going on over at the Vatican.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/09/the-mystery-of-pope-francis-was-there-a-vatican-coup.php
At last, a win 19-9. Several roses among the thorns for the Texans.
Texans are hanging on 10-9. Each team is having episodes of similar mistakes,
so it appears that for now they are pretty evenly matched but not in the most desirable way.
59 El Gordo
Spoken like a true, blue Rice Owl.
Poooor Texas, pooooor Texas. I knew that the Big 12 or however many would not last because Texas would no longer be able to call all the shots. The Aggies leaving as well as other teams going to the Pac10 or wherever hasn’t helped. Texas wants to be the big fish in a little pond, and that’s fine, but seldom… Read more »
#55: Point taken, as I said I did not watch the game. The thrust of the comment was the crookedness (according to the link) of the refs, not the combatants on the field.
Onward to victory today Texans. Please.
Good morning Hamsters. Overcast from the start and 70 with light sprinkles at 7. Radar shows stuff drifting up from the Gulf that could be heavy in some unlucky places. Not a breath of air stirring and 73 on the front porch. Looks to be one of those gloomy days that sap ambition. #51 Texpat Yes, the American Council on… Read more »
#53 – FYI – Longhorns played Oklahoma State not OU (UT plays OU Oct 10th)
#50 Texpat Commuting from the hotel penthouse to the ranch reminded me of a story Hubs tells. His maternal grandfather was an Edwards in West Texas, of the pioneering family the Edwards Plateau and the Edwards limestone and the Edwards Aquifer were named for. Grandpa Edwards was a rancher and the family lived on the ranch. As he got older,… Read more »
http://www.barkingcarnival.com/2015/9/26/9402795/phantom-calls-from-corrupt-officiating-crew-buries-texas-longhorns
Apparently the UT OU game was not the finest hour for fair and unbiased officiating. I did not watch the game, however, I have no illusions that refs ate not bought on a regular basis.
This is one of the most intelligent, thoughtful columns I have seen on the GOP, TARP and Main Street conservatives over the last 7 and more years. I first heard Brian Wesbury on the Ric Edelman financial advice show years ago where he is a regular commentator. How TARP Created Trump President Bush, who authorized this approach, later explained it… Read more »
Scamming gullible fools with the “Organic” label: Moreover, a study published in 2012 in the Annals of Internal Medicine by researchers at Stanford University’s Center for Health Policy aggregated and analyzed data from 237 studies to determine whether organic foods are safer or healthier than non-organic foods. They concluded that fruits and vegetables that met the criteria for “organic” were… Read more »
The always creative and inventive James Lileks started a while back compiling scenes of small towns across America from Google Street View. It’s a very cool, novel use of the free data. Here is the page. And here is the one Lileks did on San Angelo. I know downtown San Angelo fairly well and remember what a bustling, busy town… Read more »
33 Shannon
I was thinking the exact same thing.
This man is the kind of immigrate we need more of. H/T ReeC
Tim, good for your son, this country needs more young men and women that are willing to work and fortunately for him, his industry doesn’t mind paying good money for someone willing to work. You are right to be real proud of him. Oh, and nice truck, I’m saving up my coupons for one just like it. I’m a little… Read more »
Just started sprinkling down here, gonna’ be a wet few days. I woke up when the old grandfather clock clicked off six bells, I was going to sleep a little longer but I wanted to get my Bambi steak started in the Crock Pot so it can cook all day.
Mornin’ Gang
Poor MHarp, foiled again.
Missed it by ***********that********** much.
🙂
What shall I do? Oh 42, that’ll cool me down.
#36 El Gordo Your question cuts to the chase. And whatever the Texas legislature’s committees looking into the revelations of PP’s illegal and immoral activities have found thus far is bottled up, likely owing to the “ongoing investigation” scenario. The lefty media covering for the abortionistas surely works to keep the cap on the bottle as long as possible, and… Read more »
It won’t stop!
hummina humina, I’m getting that tingle up my leg.
Girly man?
I clinked it.
🙂
Not too sure about clicking on a link that big.
Woooooo pigs, sooooey
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Murder is not a Federal crime, it is a state crime typically prosecuted by the local District Attorney in the name of the State. So why is everyone sitting around waiting on a do-nothing congress to do something about Planned Parenthood? If the DA can show that a live birth occurred and that the child was then murdered, prosecute. It’s… Read more »
Tonight I say Go Hogs.
Sic ’em Bears!!!!!!!
19, 20
I think I’ll stick with Gus McCrae’s definition of a poke.
GJT #17;
That sounds cool. Hope it’s successful. It does sound like it has potential.
John Boehner’s a jackass.
Phil;
Sad to think that he was serious.
El Gordo #22;
That’s funny. 🙂