Facebook refuses to take down rape joke pages | Technology. Women's rights activists in Britain and the US have accused Facebook of promoting rape and "rape culture" after the social networking site refused to take down pages on which users made jokes and apparent confessions about sexual assault. Petitions urging the site to remove pages such as "You know she's playing hard to get when your [sic] chasing her down an alley" have been signed by more than 3,600 people in the UK and 175,000 people on the US website Change.org.
They say the material found on the pages is a clear violation of Facebook's terms and conditions, which bar hateful or threatening content. "This is hate speech," said Jane Osmond, who has campaigned on behalf of the UK petition. "I find it very disturbing that Facebook don't appear to see the connection between pages such as this and the prevailing rape culture we have in our society. " The refusal to act has incurred the wrath of campaigners on both sides of the Atlantic. La Birmanie suspend un projet de barrage financé par la Chine après des protestations. La France pourrait sortir du nucléaire d’ici 2050. En faisant preuve de « sobriété » et d’ « efficacité », la France, deuxième producteur mondial d’énergie nucléaire, pourrait abandonner l’atome d’ici 2050.
Abandonner l’énergie nucléaire pour s’adonner à des alternatives renouvelables, c’est le choix qu’ont fait de nombreux pays après la catastrophe de Fukushima survenue en mars 2011. L’Italie, l’Allemagne et Suisse notamment désirent dorénavant tirer un trait définitif sur l’atome civil. Ces décisions pourraient bien faire écho puisque, d’après les récentes rumeurs, l’Espagne, la Pologne et la Belgique parlent également de fermer les centrales en fin de vie et réfléchissent à une date de sortie du nucléaire. Et la France dans tout ça ?
Seulement des solutions existent et la France pourrait très bien réformer totalement son programme énergétique d’ici 2033, selon une récente étude réalisée par les spécialistes de négaWatt. Crédits photos : flickr - strelitzia. Mystery surrounds suicide of Iranian bloggers | World news. Human rights activist Kouhyar Goudarzi is still missing after being arrested alongside two friends who later committed suicide. Photograph: Guardian Two Iranian bloggers have killed themselves after being detained by security officials thought to be from Iran's ministry of intelligence. Opposition activists believe Nahal Sahabi and her partner Behnam Ganji had been under intense pressure to testify against their friend Kouhyar Goudarzi, the prominent human rights activist. Goudarzi was arrested on the same day, 31 July, and remains missing. At the time, the authorities refused to acknowledge holding them.
A week after the arrests Sahabi and Ganji were released from jail but Goudarzi, a member of the Committe for Human Rights Reporters (CHRR) in Iran is still missing, his lawyer said by phone from Tehran. Ganji killed himself on 1 September, followed by Sahabi on 28 September, according to an article on CHRR's website.