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Protect Press TV and freedom of speech
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FREEDOM TIME (18+) 4th of July Special
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Freedom Is The Key To Love Attraction
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Mau Mau Freedom Fighters To Lodge Fresh Claims For Compensation
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The boundaries separating where freedom campers can and cannot park up overnight within the Queenstown Lakes district are being disputed by the body representing caravan users.

The New Zealand Motor Caravan Association has questioned the Queenstown Lakes District Council's freedom camping bylaw via law firm Chen Palmer, taking issue with how the council identified which areas should be off-limits to freedom campers.

The association's general manager, Bruce Lochore, said the argument was not about wanting to park up in the middle of town but about questioning the bylaw's boundaries.

''They [QLDC] haven't been specific enough in identifying why they need to have such large areas prohibited.''

The new bylaw came into effect on December 19 last year, replacing the former bylaw which also allowed the council to issue infringement fines.

Earlier this year, Lakes Environmental regulatory and corporate manager Lee Webster said under the new bylaw ''some boundaries have changed but the general principles are the same''.

The council's chief executive, Adam Feeley, recently talked to Chen Palmer and he told the Otago Daily Times the association took exception to the bylaw preventing people in self-contained vehicles parking overnight in urban areas.

Mr Feeley said the Queenstown Lakes district faced a ''constant challenge'' with people in motor homes ''coming into urban areas''.

''We are confident that our bylaw is valid.

''It is valid and we are entitled to put the restriction on freedom camping in urban boundaries.''

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There is an ongoing debate on rights and freedom of speech and expression in the Internet age. For the Philippines, it began with the CyberCrime Prevention Act of 2012, with the inclusion of Online Libel provisions. It continued with the petitions before the Supreme Court. It goes on today with Nancy Binays e-violence bill, and the Santiago-Conjungco Magna Carta on Philippine Internet Freedom (MCPIF).

The Presidents argument in the inclusion of online libel in the Cybercrime Prevention Act is sound. We have rights, but it shouldnt be abused. Thats not whats wrong with the Cybercrime law. Whats wrong about it is how it goes about it.

The same tone exists with Nancy Binays e-violence bill. It seeks to prevent electronic attacks. The Binay argument is based on what the senator experienced during the campaign. Never mind that the bill she wishes to file doesnt actually protect her. Never mind that its inclusion into the Violence Against Women and Children, muddles VAWC. Never mind that e-violence goes about solving the purported protection for women, in the same way the cybercrime law does. To put it simply, a misnomer.

A meme, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary is an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture. A meme is a shortening of the Greek word, mimeme, and the word meme was first coined by Richard Dawkins. And an Internet meme is of course speech, and expression spreading from social networks, in email, as hashtags, video, photos, and so on. Even as viral marketing. It was meant to be shared. Meant to be viewed. Memes have been in existence since the dawn of the Internet.

Internet meme in the political context has taken over what political cartoons used to be. Public figures and public personas are the favorite targets of meme. President Aquino is a target. And his successor would be too. Just ask many Internet sites, and Facebook pages that love to attack the president.

Sometimes the meme is totally baseless, intellectually dishonest and at times, propaganda and opinion. The deputy press secretary, Abigail Valte, for example has been a victim of meme attacks. Her face, embedded with words she didnt actually say. Perhaps, it is the cognitive bias built by an echo chamber that exist only to validate their world view.

During the 2013 Senatorial campaign, Nancy Binay has been a victim of memes. A favorite target partly because she refused to engaged the online world, and partly because the online community is hardly her demographic. And so, apparently her ego bruised by the recent campaign.

President Aquino, Nancy Binay and Abigail Valte share the same problem. They are publicly attacked. Now, it can be argued that all three are public figures. Do they deserve it? Whether the attacks had basis or not, is beside the point. Every public figure should be ready to have their reputations and image disfigured because we live in a democracy that doesnt place unnecessary demand of intelligence to be heard. So the bar of libel and the bar of tolerance ought to be set higher than the ordinary citizen. It can be argued that as public officials ought to have thicker hides. it can also and rightly argued that sometimes public opinion can take it a bit far, and below the belt.

Would an amendment on Violence against women help protect Deputy Press Secretary Valte or Senator Nancy Binay? The quick answer is: No because the matter is not a domestic issue because the Violence against women and children is focused on domestic violence so the proposed e-violence bill doesnt work for them. Whats more, the leveling of playing field that is the Internet doesnt give any sex more power or less power on the Internet. While it is true, that women are far more easy targets in the real world, on a purely statistic basis, there are 47% male users and 53% female Facebook users in Philippines, compared to 49% and 51% in United Kingdom and 49% and 51% in France.

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The word ''freedom'' is used so often in our everyday lives from political speeches to advertisements that it's easy to think of it as having lost all meaning.

But for the country's PWDs (persons with disability), freedom is something they struggle for on a daily basis. Whether it's freedom from poverty, discrimination, or teasing and bullying, the country's PWDs have to fight the good fight every single day.

That's why it's only fitting that a celebration of the unity of PWDs and the people who support them be dubbed the ''Freedom Walk.'' Held last month at the Bonifacio Global City, the Freedom Walk involved government agencies, non-government organizations, and PWD support groups.

The government agencies include the National Council for Disability Affairs (NCDA), the Department of Social Welfare and Development, the Philippine Information Agency, the Department of Transportation and Communication, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, the Department of Public Works and Highways, the House of Representatives Committee on Social Services, the Department of Health, the National Anti-Poverty Commission, the Department of Interior and Local Government, and the Metro Manila D

For the non-government organizations, those taking part were Alyansa ng may Kapansanang Pinoy (AKAP-Pinoy), the Philippine Academy on Rehab Medicine, the New Vois Association of the Philippines, the Philippine Federation for the Rehabilitation of the Disabled, the Philippine Association of Citizens with Developmental and Learning Disabilities, the Autism Society of the Philippines, the Philippine Blind Union, as well as the SM Disability Affairs Program.

BIGGER AND BIGGER

The idea for the Freedom Walk was first conceptualized in 2011, when a group of PWD leaders met and planned for an Independence Day celebration with PWDs. It took a technical working committee, spearheaded by AKAP-Pinoy, three months to organize the event.

The decision to call it Freedom Walk came about mainly because the organizers wanted to hold the event in June.

''The event is dubbed the 'Freedom Walk' as a way for the PWD sector to celebrate Philippine Independence Day. This is also an expression of their desire to be free from shackles of discrimination, inequalities and poverty,'' explains Capt. Oscar Taleon, president of AKAP-Pinoy.

This year, the Freedom Walk went with the theme ''Each Right-full step We Take, All Barriers We Break,'' which the NCDA says focuses on the progressive realization of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN-CRPD), as well as the adoption of the Incheon Framework to ''make the right real'' for persons with disabilities.

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Why have a Fourth of July weekend festival that celebrates both cars and airplanes?

Ask Kim Fisher that, and shell look at you like youre a slow child.

Its part of the Freedom Fair, right? she says. Theres freedom in both -- the freedom to fly, the freedom to drive.

Thats the essential premise of Wings & Wheels, Pierce Countys annual celebration of fast machines, held at and above the Tacoma Narrows Airport.

Wings & Wheels is a companion festival to the July 4 Freedom Fair along Ruston Way, and it features not only aerial acrobatics but also buffed up vintage cars and pickup trucks.

Fisher, who lives in Spanaway, is okay with the airplanes, but she thinks of them mostly as a sideshow at Wings & Wheels.

She barely notices the Ace Maker T-33 Shooting Star, the Cobra helicopter and the P-51D Mustang.

Her passion is big Dodge muscle cars, especially her husbands 1966 Polara. Its a smooth ride but still muscular, she said. It has power.

Theres nothing like the roar of the engine of a Mopar, she said. Theres really nothing else like it.

(For the uninitiated, Mopar translates roughly to Chrysler.)

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Freedom to fly, drive celebrated at event

Afterburner with Bill Whittle: Dependence Day
Bill Whittle thinks that the Freedom of Speech is in peril, and so is the Freedom of Religion. Hear why on this Afterburner as Whittle reminds you of the importance of our most important civil...

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StarCraft II Arcade Highlight: Weekend of Freedom!
Grab your friends and enjoy the Weekend of Freedom where all past Arcade Highlights are now free to play through the StarCraft II Starter Edition. We also want to know which game is your favorite,...

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