Day: February 18, 2011

"Operation Protect Our Children" mistakenly shuts down 84,000 Sites with no child porn

What if you woke up one morning and your blog’s URL pointed to a Department of Homeland Security page that said, "Website seized for trafficking in child pornography"? That’s what happened to 84,000 innocent site owners this week, and there’s no guarantee it won’t happen again.

Over the past few months, Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division has been seizing the website domain names of alleged copyright and trademark infringers.  […]

Fast forward to last Tuesday when DHS announced that it had seized 10 domain names allegedly involved in advertising or distributing child pornography. Caught up in that sweep, however, were 84,000 innocent domains, all of which were redirected to the imposing "seized for child porn" banner, which announced that "Advertisement, distribution, transportation, receipt, and possession of child pornography constitute federal crimes that carry penalties for first time offenders of up to 30 years in federal prison, a $250,000 fine, forfeiture and restitution." Exactly how this happened is unclear, but one likely scenario could have been prevented with better due process. /// Source; techland.time.com/

Domain seized for Child porn

No, Human-Stupidity has not (yet) been confiscated for criticizing the child porn witch hunt.  We were careful to black out photos of 10 year old Brooke Shields, and of the 1977 "Der Spiegel" cover. Legal mainstream press that became child porn!

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Medical research and treament for Blacks hampered by "race does not exist" dogma

Political correctness backfires and vicitmizes Blacks: research about how to improve black health care gets attacked and repressed. If optimal medical treatment differs by race, then researchers gets attacked. After all, race does not exist and is only a construct. And it is only skin deep.

Our comments about such nonsense are at race and intelligence  and political correctness. Any forensic specialist can tell the race of a person from a few bones. (Is Race A Valid Taxonomic Construct?)

The "race does not exist dogma" and "all races are equal dogma" is an impediment to medical research and victimizes black people who are denied optimal medical treatment.

Why Racial Profiling Persists in Medical Research

Experts within the research community say a small but stubborn streak of racial profiling has long persisted in the medical literature, borne out in studies that attribute health disparities between blacks and whites not to socioeconomics or access to health care alone but also to genetic differences between the races — a concept that implies that a biological category of race exists. […]

Researchers said also that even after adjusting for patients’ socioeconomic status, the survival gap between black and white patients remained for three of the cancers studied: breast, ovarian and prostate. […]

That conclusion, critics quickly responded, was flawed. "Race is a sociological concept, not a biological category," says Otis Brawley, the chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society, who wrote an editorial accompanying the study. "But this study brings race into medicine as a biological categorization." […]

But even while Albain’s and other similar studies don’t do much to shift the prevailing medical opinion — that disparities in health are fueled mainly by socioeconomics and access to care — they remind us that antiquated and unscientific ideas about race are alive and well in medical research in America.

Source: time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1916755,00.html

Now the author is a little concerned about being seen as attacking academic research.

To be sure, no one is accusing authors like Albain of racism,

oh, really?

and people on both sides of the debate want to save lives.

as long as saving lives would not violate the racial equality dogma, of course

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