FC: Canadian government orders smokers-rights group to delete flag

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

[Naturally I will circulate the URL to the U.S.-based mirror site that
Paul predicts... --Declan]

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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 17:50:12 -0500
From: plevy () citizen org
To: declan () well com
Subject: National Post Story

Dear declan () well com,

Your friend plevy () citizen org thought you might be interested in this National Post story:

Take Canadian flag off Web site, government tells smokers' group
http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20020130/1282714.html

So, a US site owner mirrors 
the site and puts the darn flag up, eh?

[...]

Take Canadian flag off Web site, government tells smokers' group
Makes pro-tobacco organization look like a federal agency, spokesman says

Joseph Brean
National Post
 
The federal government ordered a smokers' rights Web site to remove their
image of the Canadian flag, claiming the trademarked logo misleads
Internet surfers into thinking the site has government approval.

The directive sparked wild allegations in e-mail chat rooms that the
government was unfairly targeting the libertarian lobby group Forces
Canada, which is devoted to preventing the "hysteria and extremism of the
U.S.-led anti-smoking movement from infecting and corrupting Canadian
society."

[...]




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