Nokia boosts enterprise push with $430m Intellisync buy “This, alas, will bring it face-to-face with Qualcomm Inc, which has just applied for an injunction to halt the sale of Nokia Corp’s handsets in the US, alleging it is infringing its patents.”
Historian Charged With Denying Holocaust “Irving was detained on a warrant issued in 1989 under Austrian laws that make Holocaust denial a crime, Golia said. If formally charged, tried and convicted on the charge, Irving could face up to 20 years in prison, said Otto Schneider of the public prosecutor’s office.” You have to be kidding me. What next, a law against moon-landing deniers?
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I don’t know how I feel about the Austrian law, but, having read Debroah Lipstadt’s book “Denying the Holocaust” and following the Lipstadt/Irving libel trial in Britain, I have no pity for David Irving. The man is a bigot and a propagandist who should not be supported by mainstream institutions.
Yes, but isn’t this the type of person free speech is meant to protect?