I concur with Milton on this. Perhaps its not funny but the idea of closed communities is not new nor fresh having been around in different shades for quite a while <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Milton L Mueller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mueller@syr.edu">mueller@syr.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">There are millions of "closed communities" on the Internet.
The right to establish customised and special applications for your own
idiosyncratic community is as inviolable as (indeed, part of) the right to
freedom of association and freedom of expression. </font></span></div>
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<p><font size="2">Milton Mueller<br>Professor, Syracuse University School of
Information Studies<br>XS4All Professor, Delft University of
Technology<br>------------------------------<br>Internet Governance
Project:<br><a href="http://internetgovernance.org/" target="_blank">http://internetgovernance.org</a><br></font></p>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
[mailto:<a href="mailto:isolatedn@gmail.com" target="_blank">isolatedn@gmail.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 04, 2009 2:08
PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org" target="_blank">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a>; Meryem Marzouki<br><b>Subject:</b>
Re: [governance] Halal Search Engine<br></font><br></div><div><div></div><div class="h5">
<div></div>Hello,<br><br>It is not amusing. This could inspire other religious
groups to start Kosher search engines, satvic search engines ?? Such divisions
could create closed Internet communities. <br><br>Usually, Internet
communities are specialized groups that do not restrain or prohibit the
members of the community from being a part of any other community; religious
communities with a restrained attitude could emerge to be communities that
restrain or influence (if not prohibit) its members from being a part of other
communities.<br><br>Sivasubramanian Muthusamy<br><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Meryem Marzouki <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marzouki@ras.eu.org" target="_blank">marzouki@ras.eu.org</a>></span>
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Very funny indeed. I'm eagerly waiting
for the <a href="http://www.iamharam.com" target="_blank">www.iamharam.com</a>
search engine (the domain name is still free BTW).
<div>But after all, simply a targetted form of blocking: isn't blocking all
about "unethical" websites, whatever the "ethic" reference?</div>
<div>But what is *really* clever with this is the possibilities
of really well targeted advertisement. </div>
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<div>Le 4 sept. 09 à 10:26, Shahzad Ahmad a écrit :</div><br>
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<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt">Dear Colleagues,</span></div>
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<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt">Do you know something about this "HALAL" Search
Engine... <span> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman','serif'"><a href="http://www.iamhalal.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:blue">www.iamhalal.com</span></a><br>
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<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt">It seems that now cyberspace is heading towards
religious divisions also... This search engine only wants to focus Muslim
Internet Users. Couldn't figure out that who is behind it?</span></div>
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<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt">They claim to be blocking ALL "unethical"
websites... I reckon a new interesting form of blocking..isn't
it? I also feel that this search engine wants to develop their
business "using" religion :)</span></div>
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<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt">It is very funny... they have somehow arranged 3
levels of searches being Haram... Don't know the logic behind it though as
how they decided these levels. Level 3 is the serach at top most
level... which they think is really really haram.</span></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt"></span> </div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt">For example, put "Sex" in the search area, it is
haram at level 3 (BTW how "sex" can be haram ;)). If you search "Penis",
it is at Level 2 of being haram and "Breasts" are also at level 2 ;))) See
for yourself, am not attaching the screen shots :)</span></div>
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<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt">Would really love to hear your thoughts on this...
particularly, if someone know that how will it work...and who is behind
it?</span></div>
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<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt">best wishes</span></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt">Shahzad</span></div></font></div></div></div>
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