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Ireland's Ridiculous Blasphemy Law Goes Into Effect

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What, me worry?1/02/2010 3:25:56 pm PST

re: #192 freetoken

It wasn’t my intention to conflate “blasphemy” with internet blocking… but of course that is done in certain countries now. Don’t know if Ireland will ever get to that point, as the EU has laws which govern that type of thing.

Rather, I was thinking that the English Only crowd here will start to object to seeing non-English internet traffic - email, sites, come to be popular in the US.

My comment about the G8/G20 was not so much about internet blocking, but the bigger picture of the waning of American influence.

I know very little about G8/G20 to make an opinion.

To the rest, I guess I misunderstood you!

I was appalled to find a number of friends or acquaintances agree with the English Only meme. One coworker I noticed recently, joined an English Only Facebook network thing. Some of these folks I know are Black and Hispanic, too, which further confuses me. I don’t think they understand the racist overtones of these groups.