A Lyon, les caméras de vidéosurveillance permettent, en moyenne, une arrestation par caméra et par année. 200 arrestations, pour 219 caméras, comparées aux 20 604 actes de délinquance dits de voie publique… pour le sociologue Laurent Mucchielli, directeur de recherche au CNRS, “le résultat est clair : l’impact de la vidéosurveillance sur la délinquance constatée par la police nationale à Lyon est de l’ordre de 1%“.

Two Air Canada passengers were pulled from their Orlando-bound flight before takeoff from Toronto's Pearson Airport after another passenger spotted them watching video of the 9/11 terror attacks.

QMI Agency columnist Joe Warmington, on his way to cover the Conrad Black story in Florida, was on the same plane when another passenger alerted the flight crew after spotting the young boy watching video on his iPod of the planes smashing into the World Trade Centre, just before the plane took off for U.S. airspace.

Air Canada officials confirmed to the Sun the two passengers, a man and a boy, were watching video of the 9/11 attacks before flight AC922 departed Tuesday night.

"Other passengers and our crew became concerned," Air Canada spokesman Peter Fitzpatrick told the Sun Wednesday. "The passengers were deplaned and following an investigation allowed to travel (Wednesday) morning.

Australian customs officers have been given new powers to search incoming travellers' laptops and mobile phones for pornography, a spokeswoman for the Australian sex industry says.

Fiona Patten, president of the Australian Sex Party, is demanding an inquiry into why a new question appears on Incoming Passenger Cards asking people if they are carrying "pornography".

Patten said officials now had an unfettered right to examine travellers' electronic devices, marking the beginning of a new era of official investigation into people's private lives. She questioned whether it was appropriate to search people for legal R18+ and X18+ material.

La mairie de Parthenay a censuré une lettre écrite par Ida Grinspan, ancienne déportée, qui devait être lue à des élèves le 29 avril dans le cadre de la journée nationale du souvenir des victimes et héros de la déportation, selon le Courrier de l'Ouest de mercredi.

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Nathalie Lanzi, professeure d'histoire-géographie au collège de la Couldre (Deux-Sèvres), qui accompagne depuis cinq ans ses élèves "volontaires et enthousiastes" aux cérémonies commémoratives et patriotiques, avait demandé à l'ancienne déportée d'Auschwitz de rédiger un texte que les élèves devaient lire dimanche, a-t-elle raconté au quotidien. Mais ce témoignage a heurté Michel Birault, ancien gendarme et adjoint chargé des affaires patriotiques. Ida Grinspan y évoque son arrestation par trois gendarmes alors qu'elle avait 14 ans. La professeure a accepté, à contrecœur, de remplacer le mot "gendarmes" par "hommes".

"UNE FORME DE CENSURE"

M. Birault a présenté ensuite le texte au maire, Xavier Argenton (Nouveau Centre) qui, lui, a refusé sa lecture. "Ne stigmatisons pas une catégorie professionnelle qui, dans ces temps troubles, avait obéi aux ordres de l'autorité légitime", a-t-il dit à son adjoint. Ce texte "n'est pas de nature à apaiser les ressentiments à une époque où le repentir est malheureusement mis en exergue", a-t-il ajouté.

"Mes élèves ne participeront plus au devoir de mémoire et aux cérémonies commémoratives. Je renonce à souscrire à ce que j'appelle une forme de censure, a indiqué au quotidien M^me Lanzi, également conseillère régionale socialiste. Mon objectif n'était pas de blesser, mais de dire l'histoire. Je suis attachée au devoir de mémoire et au souci de vérité", a-t-elle conclu Nathalie Lanzi.

Pour Ida Grinspan, "c'est terrible, cette mentalité-là". "Il faut savoir regarder la vérité en face. Ce que je dis dans ce texte, je le dis chaque fois que j'interviens dans une école. Je dis simplement ce qui a été", déclare-t-elle.

Merci Pauline

"The next time you see someone with a make up style that puts David Bowie to shame, don't laugh too much. He or she may be cleverly fooling face recognition and detection systems with a crazy or asymmetrical design".

From April 6th 2010 it will be illegal to possess “non-photographic visual depictions of child sexual abuse” in England and Wales. Thousands of fans of Japanese anime, hentai and graphic novels face a maximum three years’ imprisonment and a place on the Sex Offenders Register for possessing sexually themed cartoons.

The full pdf concerning the law is available here: http://www.backlash-uk.org.uk/pdf/consultation-non-photographic-response.pdf

The Dangerous Cartoons clauses are found in http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2009/ukpga_20090025_en_5#pt2-ch2, also see explanatory notes.

A more concise explanation can be found here: .

Backlash contests this law on the grounds that freedom of expression should not be limited to information or ideas favoured by the Government or the majority.  In light of the Government’s apparent commitment to “evidence based” policy making, it is contradictory that material that lies outside these guidelines should be criminalised on the basis of abhorrence rather than harm. At the Commons Committee hearing, Maria Eagle MP argued that the use of disgust in the writing of UK sexuality law is “well-established”, when in the past incorporating disgust into censorship law has been used primarily to discriminate against representations of homosexuality. The Government is essentially inventing a victimless crime on the grounds of taste and creating law that will have no impact on child protection strategies. Images of non-existent children do not indicate abuse or trauma; nobody can be harmed in the making of an illustration.

Although this law specifies that it applies only to images created for sexual gratification, depending on the level of detail or crudeness of said illustration many of the images likely to fall under this law are laughably unrealistic, often rendered for comedy purposes, albeit crude comedy.  These images may indeed incite sexual arousal in some individuals, but to assume that is the case for the population as a whole is a damning condescension, and presents a very real risk of a jury misinterpreting a still from a cartoon or a single image from a comic when it is removed from the exposition of its narrative.

Cartoons particularly at risk here are manga and anime, Japanese comics and cartoons.  The well known Japanese trend for large eyes, small mouths, high voices, enlarged heads, androgynous body shapes, adolescent gesticulations and the twin cultures of Moé 萌え and Kawaii 可愛い mean that a massive proportion of “cute” protagonists in Japanese illustrated or animated erotica may be perceived by a western audience as underage simply due to the trends and bias of that culture. Japan’s tradition of Ecchi エッチ and Hentai 変態, and particularly in this instance, Lolicon ロリコン and Shotacon ショタコン, plus their mild censorship of explicit works (often tiny censorship boxes over only the very tips of genitals) mean that even mainstream material may potentially be an infringement of this law.

Western graphic novels may likewise fall foul, despite being more comprehensible to a western jury. Many moments in western cartoons and graphic novels could be deemed pornographic without the advantage of viewing the context of the story surrounding it. Specific points of concern include Alan Moore’s widely-lauded works, Watchmen and Lost Girls.

It is also worrying to note that Lolicon has been mentioned specifically in relation to this new law but not Shotacon. The law may just be culturally oblivious of Lolicon’s sister genre, but why do the depictions cited by Government exclusively relate to images of (fictional, non-existent) girls when the (fictional, non-existent) boys in these pieces are as much at risk?  In addition to inventing a law to punish those committing a victimless crime, it also runs the risk of appearing culturally ignorant and, as with the Dangerous Pictures Act, seems focussed far more if not entirely on women (or, in this case, non-existent girls) in the offending material, once again implying that only girls can be victimised by this material and must be protected.

Backlash is strongly opposed to any form of child abuse, and does NOT defend the right to possess sexually explicit images of children. However, the Dangerous Cartoons Act is the second intervention in five years by UK Government to police possession of pornographic content on the grounds of obscenity and abhorrence rather than evidence of harm. This law may potentially incriminate a far larger proportion of oblivious and otherwise law-abiding internet users than the Dangerous Pictures Act, in reaction to which Backlash was founded, and likewise runs the risk of creating criminals by dint of mere misinterpretation of an image when presented without context.

"5th April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff.

Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-site, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded."