Turkey oppresses the Kurds

Larry Lessig on laws that choke creativity

First, it makes consumers anxious and depresses demand.

But the truth is that regulations are stifling even for domestic competition.

For example, the immune system is enhanced by acute stress but suppressed by chronic stress.

Nevaan wondered how people can vote for a government that suppresses them

But some government members have referred to demonstrators as 'cavemen' and the police have repressed the demonstrations

Ukraine's ruling elite is brutally suppressing opposition, limiting freedom of speech, and curtailing economic liberty.

The stupidity of this solution is overwhelming, but after the recent events, it's even more obvious.

The first calls for the world to deem as utterly unacceptable state violence that seeks to impose conformity and discipline.

Indeed, there is a growing consensus among economists that the current IP regime actually stifles innovation.

Such violence is unjust on its face because it suppresses and intimidates both body and spirit.

The government uses the threat of terrorist attacks to justify domestic repression of political opponents and the absence of democratic reforms.

Maduro's government has suppressed protests, censored the press and curtailed free expression during this time.

The second generation relied on massed firepower and culminated in World War I its slogan was that artillery conquers and infantry occupies.

How much longer can we ignore the fact that, in raising the bogeyman of Chechen terrorism, the Russian government is suppressing the liberties gained when the Soviet empire collapsed?

Unfortunately Minh Man s case is yet another example of the Vietnamese authorities suppressing free speech and dissent by way of vaguely defined or fabricated offences.

In the comments thread Bharath added, To me, the thing to remember is which culture had power and which culture was dominated Appropriation occurs when a dominant culture takes over or lays claim to a subordinate culture.

The absolutist regime, using its security apparatus, continues still today to silence any form of dissent using the unconstitutional anti terrorism law enacted in 2009.

We reckon as unacceptable the usage of the international financial system to support the Yanukovych regime, which violently disperses peaceful demonstrations, organizes bloody beating of armless people, and kangaroo courts, that throw them later in jail.

China s strong central government overwhelms opposition from people displaced by new roads, bridges, and dams, and for many years ran roughshod over environmental concerns and workers rights.

Writing for the South Africa's Mail Guardian newspaper, Christine Mungai argued that Bridge International Academies' approach to teaching discourages exchange between teacher and student and suppresses critical thinking.

Why should the world provide food aid to a country when the ruling regime weaponizes the aid to decimate opposition, crush the democratic aspirations of the people and flagrantly violate human rights?

This directive stifles public discourse, violates values enshrined in our National Constitution, and creates an environment of fear when frank discussion is most needed.

Using the Internet, Befeqadu personified those eternal words of the grandfather of African literature, Chinua Achebe an artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.

Even Western bosses keen on China, it appears, are finding it hard nowadays to praise Jiang, as he crushes the Falun Gong spiritual movement by imprisoning or confining its members to psychiatric hospitals.

As Myanmar has brutally cracked down on Rohingya Muslims, forcing many to flee to neighboring Bangladesh, local Bangladeshi activists, journalists and aid workers have been there to document their difficult trek.

While Iran suppresses internal freedom, relies on a foreign policy of regional destabilization, and concentrates on developing nuclear weapons, which will reduce rather than enhance its security, Turkey is undergoing a process of successful and comprehensive modernization.

And with every story I remembered or don t because my brain prevents me and suppresses these memories the certainty that I was a person who neither kills nor wants to kill was gradually shrinking.