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She's finally out!
Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been released from her latest stint
of home detention.
Plus, Amazon's latest scandal: shuld it have put the book up online?
I'm Leway Previs, and this is Vent.
[loud thud]
Okay, as you heard at the start of the program, our first article is about Aung San Suu Kyi,
who has just been released from her latest set of detention in Burma, or Myanmar, I should
say.
Aung San Suu Kyi is Burma's pro-democracy leader, and she's been fighting for who knows
how long to return Myanmar to a democratic state.
As a result of this, she's recently had to spend seven years in home detention, and the
government's turned around and said, "You know what, she has satisfied all the requirements
of her detention, we're going to release her early."
Now, they have also said, and this is from a government-controlled news service, that
they have released her without restrictions, and that's the part that makes me sketchy
about her entire release. I actually think that there's probably an ounce of untruth
in there.
Basically, I think she may actually be returning to detention, possibly sometime in the near
future, for some trumped-up charged.
Our second article today talks about Amazon, and the fact that they've just had to pull
a book that was available for their Kindle reader, from their digital shelves. Now, I'm
not going to say the title of the book, but it does deal with ***. Basically, the
book's been pulled, Amazon and the book's author aren't saying anything, but everyone
else has actually had a shot at it, mostly along the negative.
However, there is at least one person out there who's saying that this book should be
freely made available, and that is a guy by the name of Christopher Finan, who uis head
of the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression. Now he said that the book
in question does not break the First Amendment right, because it does not include stuff like
child ***, or is not legally obscene, and the reason why he says this is because
the book does not contain any pictures. Well, I hate to tell him this, but I kinda have
to disagree. I mean, it's a non-fiction book that talks about *** encounters between
an adult and a child, and how pedophiles can go about them; it is legally obscene. So,
to my knowledge, the book is actually outside of the right; it cannot be published.
Unfortunately, there are still a few others out there that alonmg a similar vein and are
still available. So, I'm hoping Amazon does the right thing and gets rid of them.
Now, it's time for that section of the show called, "News from my Phone!" And the news
from my phone is, some children in Chile have spent three days building the world's tallest
Lego tower. Now, the tower itself stands 31 metres tall, wieghs 600 kilos, and is made
up of five hundred thousand Lego bricks. Now, my guess is that the tower is free-standing
— it wouldn't be able to enter the record books otherwise. But yeah, this is actually
pretty interesting news, and I like the fact that these kids have gone to these extraordinary
lengths to break a record.
Question time, guys: do you believe the Myanmar government when they say that Aung San Suu
Kyi has been released without restriction? Leave your answers in the comments section
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So, I'm Leway Previs, this is vent, and I'll see you all next week. Bye.