Nastic Gryzunova. Seine: issue 87

The American Civil Liberties Union has once again taken on a rather slippery task. This time, ACLU attorneys are defending the North American Man/Boy Love Association in connection with a lawsuit filed against the association by the parents of ten-year-old Jeffrey Curley. The child's parents blame NAMBLA - or more accurately, its website - for instigating the murder; one of the two convicted, Charles Jaynes, you see, visited the association's website (now closed) shortly before the murder and had printouts of the site's materials in his possession. A classic case: online publications were to blame for very real violence. Representatives of the ACLU make full reference to the First Amendment to the US Constitution and believe that the accusation against NAMBLA is an attempt to infringe on freedom of speech. There's nothing special about the trial itself, really.

Regardless of the professional success of human rights activists, understandable attempts to link online and offline events into a single system are, in fact, not very reasonable. Not only is blaming the publisher of a porn magazine for the increase in rape, but blaming NAMBLA for the pedophilic spasm of Charles Jaynes is delusional and irresponsible. Plus, there is one subtlety: as long as criminal impulses of this kind remain on the Internet and have not yet led to any action in real life, they are not criminal - from a moral point of view, I mean. Therefore, for example, the sensational story about thirteen-year-old Katie Terbox, who chatted for six months with a certain twenty-three-year-old Mark, who turned out six months later in a personal meeting to be a forty-year-old pedophile with a completely different name, is not as clear as the publishers of Katie.com and The young lady herself was almost injured. Because, strictly speaking, a forty-year-old pedophile, communicating with Katie for six months as Mark of the mentioned age, for all six months he really was Mark was . According to the laws of the environment - because in an environment of global masquerade, which we are trying so hard to deny, due to the inability to see real faces, the real ones are those that can be seen - virtual personalities, if you like. Crime, violence, courts and everything else begins when you go offline. This is another argument in favor of minimizing offline in our already eventful lives.

• RBCmp3.com is conducting an Internet broadcast of the Russian rock festival in New York on September 1 . The festival and, accordingly, the broadcast will begin at 19:00 New York time - 1 am Moscow time. Registration on the site is required to view. Participants of the Festival: Garik Sukachev and “Untouchables”, “Chaif”, “Resurrection”, “Time Out”, “Dancing Minus”, Andrey Makarevich. What do these dances have to do with it, I really don’t understand. The phrase "Russian rock" takes on a strange meaning.
• has opened The website "AntiBrat-2" - the creators complain that with the excitement that has arisen around the film "Brother-2" , no one asks what is good about it, and they undertake to prove that, in fact, there are no grounds for general enthusiasm . In general, such evidence does not require any active body movements - a shrug of the shoulders and a bewildered grin is enough. However, everyone has their own means of expression.
• Memories of a campaign you were not on are dubious reading, but nevertheless - a quote: “Who doesn’t want to read about the campaign, but is interested in various strange things like how exactly the esaul gallops across the steppe, how they reach consensus, how they play into an elephant, how the dishes are flattened, what the tavern looks like and, finally, how many kilometers to Selizharovo - then you’re here " .
• On August 31, the Open Society Institute announced the opening of the Auditorium.ru server , which will become an electronic humanities library.
• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency The US Department of Defense is working on a project that will increase the speed of Internet access a thousand times - new software and equipment are being developed. An increase in speed and the entry of new technology into the market is promised in five to ten years. So far, the American military has done well .