Showing posts with label Legalities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Legalities. Show all posts

Friday, April 1, 2011

Facebook, Zuckerberg Sued For Not Removing A Page Fast Enough

In Soviet America, you don't sue when you are censored - you get sued for not censoring fast enough!

Have we really evolved past the point of protecting censorship that we are now suing people for not taking something down fast enough?? The controversial FB profile page of the "third Palestinian intifada" was removed on March 29th due to allegations of violence. [ I would also like to add as a counter point to the page removal - feel free to scan around facebook, especially regarding anti-LGBT pages. I'm sure you'd find some shocking "allegations of violence" as well.]  Free speech advocates have expressed much dismay over the measure and have many questioning if there wasn't measurements that could have been taken instead of the full removal of the page.

One thing that wasn't foreseen was to find people so upset it wasn't taken down sooner.  Larry Klayman, an author, activist, and former senate candidate is now suing Zuckerberg for a hefty 1 billion for not taking down the page fast enough.  Read the more on this story here

Farmers Taking On GMO Giant, Monsanto

Few areas interest me like that of GMO's (Genetically Modified Organism) and their infiltration into the american agriculture system.  Becoming a fast friend to mono-culture and the hidden bane of small farmers, GMO companies did a good job smoke screening themselves by capitalizing off of the tragic stories of foreign famine and providing a crop output that could not compare to conventional methods via space-age science methods applied to standard, staple crops.  But they were also pioneers on another front.  Companies like Monsanto have paved the way for a principle quite unique to become mainstream.  The patenting of seeds.  Big corporations could now be the proprietors of life forms.

Besides the potential biological environmental & health ramifications, GMO's have also put grave danger on the integrity of the american farmer.   The cost came in the form of loss of personal sustainability, crippling dependence on the companies, & the fear of the legal wrath of these giant corporations.  More shocking was that it was not just the planters of GMO's that suffered from the ill-tides of corporate back-lashings, but also those who were at risk of cross contamination of seed.  Plants would cross pollinate and put all farmers at risk of being sued for patent infringement.  Well since then, the GMO companies have been partaking in an all you can eat buffet of legal battles, slowly stringing up small farmers, one-by-one, for all they have.  It didn't take long for the landscapes of the Midwest to become comprised of large multi-corporation farms.



A resistance was found in the organic farming movement.  While, not immune to the proverbial gavel of businesses like Monsanto, they have strived to educate and encourage practices of seed saving.   But it still has not been enough just due to the sheer magnitude and scale of these big corporations.

So I wonder if the GMO giants saw this coming:
Organic Seed Growers & Trade Association, et al. v. Monsanto.  That's right.  Tables turned as
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