Malaysia’s Anti-Fake News Act: A cog in an arsenal of anti-free speech laws and a bold promise of reforms by Joseph M Fernandez

“…The Attorney-General Tommy Thomas wrote scathingly before the Act was passed and before taking office as the new A-G: The draconian effect of the entire bill renders it unconstitutional…This is a disgraceful piece of legislation drafted by a desperate government determined to crush dissent and silence critics. The bill is so hastily and poorly drafted that it cannot under any circumstances be improved by amendment. …”
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From Independence Day to Land of Plenty: Screening American Patriotism from German Émigré Perspectives before and after 9/11 by Frank Mehring

“…Wenders manoeuvres into an artistic space producing what I call patriotism of dissent. The films engage in a kind of dialectic dialogue on American patriotism. …”
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Ambulantes, mães-pretas e engraxates: A cidade dissidente de Geraldo Filme by Giordano Barbin Bertelli

“…We conclude by pointing out the dissenting character of the politic and social practices in the evoked sociability and in the poetry from the songs of this composer.…”
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Panel logit regression analysis of the effects of corruption on inflation pattern in the Economic Community of West African states by Idowu Oluwasayo Ayodeji

“…It is widely believed that increase in money supply increases inflation rates in the long run. Dissenting evidences have later emerged to show that the inflation-money growth link has weakened over time. …”
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Reply to Berry, C. Factors Related to <i>Bacillus thuringiensis</i> and Gut Physiology. Comment on “Rajan, V. An Alkaline Foregut Protects Herbivores from Latex in Forage, but Incr... by Vidya Rajan

“…The key points in the dissent are the following: 1. Bt is generally safe to non-target species. 2. …”
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‘The new but lonely voice against the authoritarianism’: humor and irony in Turkish political discourse after the Taksim Gezi Park Protests by Gunes Ekin Aksan

“…People used alternative media to voice their dissent, mainly in the form of social media messages in addition to street performances, graffiti, videos and murals. …”
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A patrimonialização da memória social: uma forma de domesticação política das memórias dissidentes ou indígenas? by Alejandra Aguilar Pinto

“…This article aims to introduce memorization practices, experienced by diverse groups, focusing on hegemonic memories (such as those represented in memory institutions like museums and archives as well as those carried on by its professional archivists, librarians, historians and official state policies of patrimonialization) and dissenting memories (in our case, indigenous thought). …”
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What are 'Think Tanks'? Revisiting the Dilemma of the Definition by Juliana Cristina Rosa Hauck

“…Thus, the aim is to reduce non-specificities in the analytic category and the dissent of its social significance, which demands less abstraction facing the exploratory state of the field of study.…”
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An Ethics of Sanctions? Attempt and Critique of the Moral Justification of Economic Sanctions by Florian Ladurner

“…As the groupthink concept illustrates, dissenting opinions are neglected in the consensus-building process. …”
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Freedom Of Determination Of Maximum Criminal Prosecution Plan By The Public Prosecutor by prof. Dr. Taufik eka purwanto, I Nyoman Nurjaya, SH., MH, Dr. Iwan Permadi, SH.,MH

“…In addition, to be a new reference to the freedom of prosecution of the prosecution plan because throughout the search is still very lacking references related to the application of equality or some kind of dissenting opinion from the Prosecutor in the preparation of the prosecution plan against criminal cases. …”
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Tripartite school conflicts and non-consensual democracy. An attempt of autoethnographic analysis by Martyna Pilas

“…The school in my article is perceived as a place of conflict which is an unobvious expression of democratic dissent and a difficult way of achieving commonality, which is a condition of democracy. …”
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"Sexplosion": corps armés chez Virginie Despentes by Daniel Maira

“…In or-der to understand this shattering finale, we have to look at Beatriz Precia-do’s (Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics, 2008) queer and postporn ideas on technosexuality which will help us to understand Despentes’ lite-rary universe characterized by anti-heroines who take up a defiant stance against society through a dissent use of their bodies. Such a reading of the novel aims at understanding the connection between the technosexual reappropriation of Valentine’s body and her vindictive anger. …”
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The Application of the Socratic Method in Teaching General Education Law Courses by Ling-Shuang Shih

“…The approvers consider that the method is effective in teaching basic legal principles. The dissenters consider that the classroom experience is humiliating to all students. …”
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Ambiguitas Hak Kebebasan Beragama di Indonesia dan Posisinya Pasca Putusan Mahkamah Konstitusi by M. Syafi’ie

“…In that context, the Constitutional Court rejected judicial review entirely, although there are dissenting opinion from one of the judges of the constitution. …”
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When Heterodoxy Became News: The Representation of the Diggers and the Ranters in Contemporary Newspapers by Laurent Curelly

“…It especially looks into the way the Diggers and the Ranters were labelled and what these labels tell us about those who supposedly voiced dissenting opinions as well as about perceptions of the heterodox landscape of the late 1640s and early 1650s. …”
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Braxon®-assisted prepectoral breast reconstruction: A decade later by Franco Bassetto, Laura Pandis, Federico Facchin, Gian Paolo Azzena, Vincenzo Vindigni

“…However, this has caused a great deal of confusion and dissent with regard to the adoption of feasible reconstructive strategies as well as the original scientific rationale underlying the prepectoral approach. …”
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Brandon is a Network Not a Name: Fictocriticism & the Cyberfeminist Art of Shu Lea Cheang by Zach Pearl

“…In this paper, I examine correlations between fictocritical approaches and formal tactics in Cheang’s studio practice to consider them as interrelated cyberfeminist strategies of resistance and dissent; ones that arose in counterpoint to the proliferation of deterministic, technocapitalist narratives. …”
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‘The new but lonely voice against the authoritarianism’: humor and irony in Turkish political discourse after the Taksim Gezi Park Protests by Gunes Ekin Aksan

“…People used alternative media to voice their dissent, mainly in the form of social media messages in addition to street performances, graffiti, videos and murals. …”
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Feeling the Chill: , State Censorship, and “Networked Affect” on Malaysian Social Media 2012–2018 by Amelia Johns, Niki Cheong

“…This, combined with allegations that the government has used astroturfing (commonly referred to as “cybertrooping” in Malaysia) to shape voter sentiments and suppress the momentum of Bersih and popular forms of online political dissent, has been strongly condemned by human rights organizations. …”
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Defects in new legislative regulation of the appeal proceedings by Belkin A.R.

“…It is proposed to count 10 days since passing the sentence. In case of dissenting opinion (Art. 310 Sec. 5) we should count from the day of its first reading. …”
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