[Reader-list] Word Frequency List on Sarai Reader List

Shuddhabrata Sengupta shuddha at sarai.net
Tue May 29 14:55:40 IST 2001


Dear Friends,

This is a result of a word frequency test applied to the postings on the 
Discussion List. It makes for very interesting reading

Cheers

Shuddha


>This is the result of of putting together all the sentances containing the 
>word arrest(ed)
>
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>When will the rest of us begin to wake  up When the gentlemen from the 
>cybercops come knocking on our doors  Cheers  Shuddha      ALERT CHINA  26 
>April 2001  Wave of repression against web dissidents SOURCE: Reporters 
>sans frontières RSF, Paris  RSFIFEX  In a letter to Jia Chunwang, Chinese 
>minister of public security, RSF protested the arrest of Lu Xinhua and Guo 
>Qinghai.
>
>According to the Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, he was 
>formally arrested on 20 April for "subversion".
>
>"  Four web dissidents are currently jailed in China: Qi Yanchen, chief 
>editor of the online magazine "Consultations", arrested on 2 September 
>1999 and sentenced to four years in jail see IFEX alerts of 21 September, 
>13 July, 26 and 5 June, 17 and 3 March and 26 January 2000 and 3 September 
>1999; Huang Qi, creator of the website www.
>
>Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal 
>Procedure,  1973, any police officer, not below the rank of a Deputy 
>Superintendent of  Police, or any other officer of the Central Government 
>or a State  Government authorised by the Central Government in this behalf 
>may enter  any public place and search and arrest without warrant any 
>person found  therein who is reasonably suspected or having committed or 
>of committing or  of being about to commit any offence under this 
>Act"  Explanation.
>
>   The law clearly state that the publishers of periodical news on 
> the   web who are not 'professional' journalists or write on behalf 
> of   them could be fined for up to 250 dollars and arrested for up to 
> two   years, and accused of the 'clandestine press' crime.
>According to the Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, he was 
>formally arrested on 20 April for "subversion".
>
>First the Law  The Information Technology Act of 2000 which is now law, 
>and people are  being arrested under its provisions in its now notorious 
>clauses 66 and 67  criminalized 'hacking' and 'publishing of information 
>which is obscene in  electronic form'.
>
>A  mob of vigilantes, patrolling a crossroad, have attacked and 
>seriously  wounded a person driving a car late at night because he had a 
>helmet in his  back seat they thought that he might be the 'helmeted' 
>attacker, several  people have turned up  with scratch marks and other 
>injuries at clinics and  hospitals and quite a few people have been 
>arrested on the charges of  spreading rumours.
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>WASTE_WORDS THEIR WEIGHT& FREQUENCY IN LONDON'S MUNICIPAL RUBBISH
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>http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/kunst/waste/index.html
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>Linker site
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Shuddhabrata Sengupta
SARAI: The New Media Initiative
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
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