[Naturally I will circulate the URL to the U.S.-based mirror site that Paul predicts... --Declan] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 17:50:12 -0500 From: plevyat_private To: declanat_private Subject: National Post Story Dear declanat_private, Your friend plevyat_private thought you might be interested in this National Post story: Take Canadian flag off Web site, government tells smokers' group http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20020130/1282714.html So, a US site owner mirrors the site and puts the darn flag up, eh? [...] Take Canadian flag off Web site, government tells smokers' group Makes pro-tobacco organization look like a federal agency, spokesman says Joseph Brean National Post The federal government ordered a smokers' rights Web site to remove their image of the Canadian flag, claiming the trademarked logo misleads Internet surfers into thinking the site has government approval. The directive sparked wild allegations in e-mail chat rooms that the government was unfairly targeting the libertarian lobby group Forces Canada, which is devoted to preventing the "hysteria and extremism of the U.S.-led anti-smoking movement from infecting and corrupting Canadian society." [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Events: Congreso Nacional de Periodismo Digital in Huesca, Spain from Jan. 17-18 (http://www.congresoperiodismo.com) and the Second International Conference on Web-Management in Diplomacy in Malta from Feb. 1-3. (http://www.diplomacy.edu/Web/conference2/) -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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