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ruled that the cross-border character of the web "cannot undermine powers vested to the Federal states. . . . Blocking orders were issued in 2001 by the district government of Dusseldorf to ISPs in North Rhine-Westphalia. The authority demanded blocking of the domain names nazi-lauck-nsdapao.com and stormfront.com by domain name or IP address. An online protest forum was penalized for violating those orders". http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/08/german_web_freedom_case
In a related article, the online Computer Weekly reported that an unidentified ISP had sought to reverse an order issued by the Düsseldorf district authority preventing Germany-based ISPs from granting access to foreign servers hosting neo-Nazi material. http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2005/01/07/207595/german-court-upholds-web-ban-on-nazi-content.htm
6. cf. note 5 above
7. Reporters Sans Frontières, an organization dedicated to freedom of information reports on its website that Germany belongs to the US spy network Echelon: “The media revealed in June 2001 that the government had allowed the country to become a link in the US Echelon electronic spy network. The Bavarian daily paper Merkur, citing a US military intelligence report, said the US base at Bad Aibling (Bavaria) housed one of Echelon’s biggest European electronic monitoring and interception centres, after the US base at Menwith Hill, in Britain. It enables the US to spy on e-mails sent from much of Europe, including all the former Soviet bloc countries.The revelation caused an outcry because Germany has not signed the UK-USA agreement setting out the roles of the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand in the spying system.” http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=10678
8. The ADL, on its website “Extremism in America,” writes of the KKK: “Its impressive presence on the Internet obscured its diminished power and meant to give the casual observer the impression of a revived, vital and active Klan attracting members everywhere: “Here are some reasons why we are growing so fast and why the Klan Movement is the White People's answer...The Klan name and symbol breaks through the paper curtain of the anti-White media and brings us to the attention of those who want to learn more about us. . .The Klan is youth oriented. . . The Klan is worldwide in scope. . .The Klan is surging; it is pulsating forward and growing with every day and every hour.”
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| Title | Negotiating pluralism and tribalism in liberal democratic societies |
| Author | Sadagopan, Shoba |
| Author email | sadagopa@usc.edu; shobasadagopan@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Philosophy |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-08-22 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2008-10-15 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Lloyd, Sharon |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Dreher, John Keating, Gregory |
| Abstract | My aim in this dissertation is to enquire whether toleration as a practice is achievable. It is prior to the question of how it can be grounded as a virtue. I argue that in liberal democratic societies where there are struggles for recognition on the part of ethnocultural groups, it is possible to negotiate pluralism and tribalism in a way that a stable pluralist society can be maintained. My core thesis rests on a theory of interdependence based both on a theory of human nature and on the material fact of globalization. Insofar as we affirm our nature as human beings engaged in productive activity with other human beings, insofar as we value a world that facilitates that activity, toleration is desirable. It is achievable because with globalization there is a tendency towards homogenization that erodes cultural differences. There is less reason for conflict because what we have in common, our interdependence, goes far deeper than culture. A further sufficient condition may be found in well thought-out policies that are executed through education and dialogue. |
| Keyword | toleration; value pluralism; liberalism; cultural homogenization; globalization; common citizenship |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1658 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Sadagopan, Shoba |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Sadagopan-2395 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume26/etd-Sadagopan-2395.pdf |
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| Title | Page 129 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 126 ruled that the cross-border character of the web "cannot undermine powers vested to the Federal states. . . . Blocking orders were issued in 2001 by the district government of Dusseldorf to ISPs in North Rhine-Westphalia. The authority demanded blocking of the domain names nazi-lauck-nsdapao.com and stormfront.com by domain name or IP address. An online protest forum was penalized for violating those orders". http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/08/german_web_freedom_case In a related article, the online Computer Weekly reported that an unidentified ISP had sought to reverse an order issued by the Düsseldorf district authority preventing Germany-based ISPs from granting access to foreign servers hosting neo-Nazi material. http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2005/01/07/207595/german-court-upholds-web-ban-on-nazi-content.htm 6. cf. note 5 above 7. Reporters Sans Frontières, an organization dedicated to freedom of information reports on its website that Germany belongs to the US spy network Echelon: “The media revealed in June 2001 that the government had allowed the country to become a link in the US Echelon electronic spy network. The Bavarian daily paper Merkur, citing a US military intelligence report, said the US base at Bad Aibling (Bavaria) housed one of Echelon’s biggest European electronic monitoring and interception centres, after the US base at Menwith Hill, in Britain. It enables the US to spy on e-mails sent from much of Europe, including all the former Soviet bloc countries.The revelation caused an outcry because Germany has not signed the UK-USA agreement setting out the roles of the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand in the spying system.” http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=10678 8. The ADL, on its website “Extremism in America,” writes of the KKK: “Its impressive presence on the Internet obscured its diminished power and meant to give the casual observer the impression of a revived, vital and active Klan attracting members everywhere: “Here are some reasons why we are growing so fast and why the Klan Movement is the White People's answer...The Klan name and symbol breaks through the paper curtain of the anti-White media and brings us to the attention of those who want to learn more about us. . .The Klan is youth oriented. . . The Klan is worldwide in scope. . .The Klan is surging; it is pulsating forward and growing with every day and every hour.” |
