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By: Monica Peters

Monica Peters — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:32:00 +0000

I am also seeing many more that refuse to be ’spoon-fed’ information, with a preference towards experiential learning.

I much prefer to experience the adventures of clearing paths, finding some recognizable order in chaos, and even being the first to discover new nuggets of knowledge that were once hidden, secret, forgotten, or even misunderstood.

I look forward to more discussions to help Onkwehonwe discover how we got to where we find ourselves today.

By: Monica Peters

Monica Peters — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:59:15 +0000

CyrusYounger, yes I agree with your points. My professional background involves alot of math and computational linguistics too, so that reflects on my personality.

One of the misconceptions in my field, is that many believe that ‘Knowledge is Power’. I believe and promote my belief that ‘Shared Knowledge is Power’.

I find that if I am not able to share my knowledge or discoveries, that I will often hit a roadblock on my own path of growth.

When knowledge and discoveries are shared with a community or circle of friends, that each individual is a small piece of the giant puzzle and we all grow or move forward to even more knowledge, based on each of our own capabilities of understanding.

By: cyrusyounger

cyrusyounger — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:49:16 +0000

“The Internet is a free open society where censorship is not tolerated” Monica
Posting to our own Domains without being censored is our right. Others should not enter our domain and censor our opinions.
If other sites are taking down comments or are censoring, that is their right, they are the Sovereign of their site(territory). Censorship is an action to gain advantage over an other. Some may censor to maintain their view of reality–accepting information that could jeopardize their interpretation is censored, while others censor for mere profits–parlor games, slight-of-hand, social engineering, technology.
What is the Object of the Subject-censorer? Knowledge. Power structures have always recognized the effects that knowledge has on beings. From the Individual to the Company, many pursue knowledge so they can censor adverse knowledge. (People can claim to be a secret agent to pick up women, countries can claim that the world hates us because of our freedom.) By censoring knowledge that leads to adversity(he’s not an agent/your country is oppressive), complacency can continue unimpeded–Power is maintained(a woman thinks shes dating a secret agent; a country bombs more haters). This is a dualism of knowledge: the ability to say and mean two different things to Others.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:33:44 +0000

2nd Law or man made law, has no bearing on any Sovereign being.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:29:06 +0000

Nia:wen ko:wa

By: Billy Jack Douthwright

Billy Jack Douthwright — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:13:09 +0000

A good and thought provoking statement directed very well straight to the heart of the matter for those it concerns! As for myself, no-one ever has or ever could threaten me with censorship and so I do not live with this threat! And here are a couple of examples of how it relates to my experience… 1) just the other day I did a news search to find updated information reports on current developments with the Algonquin Nation and specifically the community of ‘ “Barrier Lake” ‘. Only two news items were produced from the Google search I typed in, and both dated to right around the date in early September when the Algonquin Nation launched their decisive action to force federal and provincial governments of Canada to comply with terms of a tri-lateral agreement! Very suspicious! so I left a comment on one of the news items-published by PacificPress & book-marked the page, which at some point I’ll check to make sure my comment is posted, and eventually I plan to cross-check these activities a number of ways, 2) I wrote a comment to an article published in Newsweek while comments were still open and got a message stating . ” Your comment cannot be published at this time, please try again later” ‘ which I did try immediately and also ‘later’ with the same result. So this is an instance that I am keeping track of to address more fully in time!
What I mean to imply by these examples is that many of us may have reason to be suspicious of censorship taking place on the internet, and what I would like to ask in return is, how should we understand and interpret our nations’ laws application in these matters? Because while The American Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Committee’s definition may well be an interesting reference on the subject, it does not have any direct legal bearing upon how Onkwehonwe can best address the threat of censorship, and this is so because our application of our sovereign, which has sole legal force across our territories, is law that can only be defined by us!