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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>,
Cyberculture <cyberculture@zacha.org>
Subject: [NetBehaviour] A huffy Canada shuts down 'Yes Men'. (fwd)
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:31:33 -0500 (EST)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:30:23 +0000 From: marc garrett <marc.garrett@furtherfield.org> Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org> To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org> Subject: [NetBehaviour] A huffy Canada shuts down 'Yes Men'. A huffy Canada shuts down 'Yes Men'. Stung by a satire at the Copenhagen climate conference, Canada's government has shut down two parody Web sites criticizing the Great White North's glacial policy on global warming. In the process, however, it has taken down 4,500 other Web sites that had nothing to do with the prank played two weeks ago at the global climate summit. The two "offending" sites, developed by "Yes Men" pranksters, announced that Canada would reduce greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 40 percent from 1990 levels, and 80 percent by the year 2050. The "announcement" came as Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government was privately circulating a plan to permit a 165 percent INCREASE in emissions from Alberta's huge, dirty oil sands project. The two Web sites, "enviro-canada.ca" and "ec-gc.ca" are "directly connected to a hoax which misleads people into believing that the Government of Canada will take certain actions in relation to environmental matters," Mike Landreville from Environment Canada wrote in an e-mail to the German Internet Service Provider (ISP) Serveloft. "We trust you appreciate the importance of avoiding confusion among the public concerning Canadian governmental affairs and that you will assist us in preventing this hoax from spreading further." more... http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/189467.asp _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour