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THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE took to the streets of Dublin yesterday to commemorate the centenary of the Easter Rising.
What did media outlets abroad make of things? We take a look.
New York Times
The NYT covered the Rising in a number of ways – ‘straight’ stories, opinion pieces and historical articles:
In its report on the Rising, taken from Associated Press, it noted:
Thousands of soldiers marched solemnly through the crowded streets of Dublin on Sunday to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising against Britain, a fateful rebellion that reduced parts of the capital to ruins and fired the country’s flame of independence.
In the run-up to the event, it also had this fascinating article on the involvement of women in the Rising:
The picture emerging from this research is one of women who were not just committed nationalists willing to die for Ireland, but also longtime campaigners for social justice who had been fighting inequality on many fronts: land reform, labor battles and women’s suffrage. These women wanted a fairer society in which they would have an equal say. In 1916, they had reason to believe that the republic they chose to fight for was the surest means to that end.
BBC
The BBC covered the parade, and gave some contextual information for those not familiar with the event.
It also had a wealth of articles about the Easter Rising, including who the leaders were, and what the human cost of the Rising was.
BBC Northern Ireland’s Mark Simpson reported from the scene:
It is a rare moment in a large crowd when everyone puts down their smart phone and just listens. That rarity occurred when Captain Peter Kelleher, a soldier from Cork, re-read the 1916 proclamation of Irish independence. Social media went on hold in the crowd. The ‘selfies’ stopped. There was a Twitter ceasefire.
Washington Post
The Washington Post filled in its readers about what the Rising actually involved:
Its main article on the commemoration was headlined like this:
This was AP copy, similar to the New York Times story above.
Andalou Agency
This Turkish publication had a piece on how the organisers expected the commemoration “to be the largest parade in Irish history”.
The Telegraph
In one of the more unexpected pieces about the Rising, Charles Moore wrote a piece in The Telegraph headlined ‘Islamic State and the Easter Rising’ which even brought in the Brussels attacks to his discussion of the events.
The Guardian
Reporting from Dublin, Henry McDonald noted:
The rising is one of the seminal events in modern Irish history and took place in the middle of the first world war. More than 450 people lost their lives in almost a week of fighting between republican rebels led by the poet and teacher Pearse and British armed forces in the city.
The site also featured the fascinating stories of those involved in the Rising, told by their families.
One man, Bernie Duffy, recalled how his grandfather Barney Duffy volunteered as a messenger during the Rising.
But it’s difficult for Bernie to speak of Barney without remembering his other grandfather Johnny Quinn, who served with the RAF during the second world war. “Both my grandfathers played their role in history and I am proud of them for that, but neither were fighters and I’m grateful for that too.” For Bernie, the lives of both his relatives help reflect the complexity of feelings for Irish people when it comes to Ireland’s relationship with the UK.
Earlier in the weekend, Olivia Leary wrote a searing column about the role of women in the Rising, and the paper also included an editorial on the centenary. Both of them drew many letters from readers.
In its editorial, The Guardian said:
Meanwhile, a century on, the rising can also now be seen as a precursor of the modern fracturing of the United Kingdom’s internal cohesion. Yet in Britain, with some honourable exceptions, commemoration of the rising has been fitful at best. The lazy habits of closed minds are to blame here. Too few British people know anything of Ireland’s history, including about the rising, which is likely this year to be eclipsed by the centenary of the Somme, where, as it happens, many Irish soldiers died. No one who cares about the study of British history should feel content with this.
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What’s with that ahole writing the article ‘Isis and the Easter rising’. Does he see some sort of link between the two? It’s a strange angle to be taking. How would the Americans react to an article ‘George Washington and isis’
He can’t even say the Republic of Ireland refers to us as Southern Ireland. We should ditch the tricolour and revert to our green flag and golden harp. It’s our Ireland flag.
It’s the usual anti Irish crap that was, and still is on rare occasions, a hallmark of British papers down through the years. If you read the article it just shows how misinformed and clueless the writer is, one laughable example is he thinks its called the Easter Rising to try and link it to religion and God rather than the actual timing of the event. No surprise that yoke Dudley Edwards got a mention. I await similar articles when every other country celebrates their fight against colonialism like the 4th July but somehow I doubt it. The anti Irish bile is never far from the surface.
You don’t see a parallel?
No but I see you have a big head in that photo………
It’s by Charles Moore, died in the wool Tory. A pathetic piece from a homophobic Thatcherite that deserves to be ignored.
It was nothing but a Military Parade.
North Korea or Stalin Russia would have been proud of it
I think the initial mistake made in relation to this, is when seeing what the fight for independence actually resulted in, which was the predominance of Roman Catholisum in the running of the States institutions. That is as apposed to the republican, socialist ideals it was striving for at the outset. So for those looking in fro the outside, you could well make the assumption it was a driven religious thing.
Well it doesn’t take any bottle to be critical of people who died 100 years ago …. I’d be interested in seeing how critical he is of some of the tales about Mohammed.
@PaulJ Absolutely agree with that, it’s a disgraceful headline and article written by a bigot. The disgusting coward who wrote it or their paper would never have the guts to write such a headline about the Independence day celebrations of a bigger nation like the US. It underlines how they could commit such atrocities in Ireland in the past and yet still today have no shame, only hatred for having won our freedom.
He died in the wool? Was it for Ireland!
It’s like a parody article. He uses tiny similarities to compare Pearse to the ISIS terrorists in Brussels; the fact that he uses the phrase “in the name of God” in the proclamation, the fact that he died for his cause and that his brother was killed too. Nevermind that they did not target civilians, that they were fighting for a Republic and not a theocratic dictatorship or that they were in their own country where the natives were subjugated and treated poorly for hundreds of years. One of the best bits in the article is where he says public opinion on the “murderous” rising leaders has changed in Ireland. We just threw them a bloody parade! Or how about this gem: “It no longer seems so heroic to have provoked violence against a parliamentary democracy and slaughter among one’s own people”. I think that speaks for itself.
I am afraid that this is what you kind of expect from a Tory newspaer like the Telegraph. Wait to see what anti Europe guff they write about the Brexit in June.
Of all the British newspapers you will find the Guardian to be the independent voice through journalism.
Murdoch at it’s best……
The Telegraph has a long history of anti-Irish hatred.
So self-respecting Irish person should buy the rag.
The Guardian is a regressive left rag!
Last night ITV screened a two hour documentary about the Queen, coincidence or what……??
Throughout the ages, nations and their leaders have invoked God to intervene and aid their cause; Philip II of Spain believed he was doing God’s work on Earth while Cromwell thought his God would be pleased by his murdering of thousands of Catholics. The Almighty Dollar still bears witness to ‘In God We Trust’. It’s a pity this Journalist from the Telegraph did not have a greater understanding of the complex interactions of religion and politics, then he might have produced something worthwhile for his readers to read, rather than a retreat into the unproductive peddling of disharmony and ignorance.
Very true Paul, ” murderous self righteous fanatics , provoke violence from a parliamentary democracy” the same ‘democracy’ that ruled huge parts of the world at the time through what? Violence of course. The fact he recommends that self confessed liar O Callaghan makes it all the more laughable.
Which Queen would that be, Chris?
The Telegraph is not owned or controlled by Murdoch. The Barclay brothers live as tax exiles on the Channel Island of Sark and are much more ideological than Murdoch.
Brenda Power is not a member of The Iona Institute . Maybe you should do your research before sitting at your computer
A right wing nut job, I wouldnt take much notice.
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Apologies, Con. I got my Brendas and my Bredas mixed up. They both hold such extreme right-wing, anti-democratic and illiberal views that they have morphed into one in my mind!
I can see your point. But journalism is supposed to be a researched un biased reporting of events. This article was the complete opposite. It wouldn’t have been too hard to find the real truth if he wanted to . He was clearly just interested in voicing his own bigoted opinion. That said we did dishonour the values of 1916 when we allowed the Catholic Church hold such a gig on the country for so long
@Chris Kirk – The Daily Telegraph is owned by the Barclay Brothers – Murdoch owns The Times.
The article does not surprise me as The Telegraph has always held an anti Irish sentiment in its journalism.`
Every paper has an exception – interesting article in the Daily Telegraph on 26 March written by Simon Heffer – ‘ Easter Rising: it is time to apologise to the Irish ‘
So thats where Bishop Ken went to after his years in Cavan…..nice bloke, but has his head in the clouds like the rest of the Church of Ireland heiracy. They don’t listen to people in any practical sense I found, like the parish records gathering dust instead of releasing them for genealogists to help people research family history. The Church of Ireland has kept its head buried for far to long since the Irish state came into existence, probably with too many skeletons in the cupboard concerning orangism in its membership and embarrased by the numbers of protestants who were actually involved in the process of nation building including Countess Markievicz, Connollys wife etc.
Yes Charles, I was actually commening on the Sunday Times article…
@Chris Kirk – I assume therefore, you were referring to George Hogan’s comment. Apolgies, I wasn’t trying to be smart and yes you’re right – typical Murdoch who politically, will run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.
Brenda Power is not a member of the Iona Institute, please keep your prejudicial lies to yourself.
Maybe we should take the orange out of the flag._.
Just went and read the article. It’s pretty offensive stuff.
Based on your comment I read the “telegraph ” article. moor… What a fcuking opinionated pr1ck
I suggest that anyone who wishes to lets the racist homophobic bigot who was allowed by the telegraph to print such hateful bile in their newspaper know what they think of him. Charles bigot racist Moore @CharlesHMoore
@michael kavanagh…ha ha ha….Comment of the day. Sure Dev hoooored for ireland.
Islamic state and the Easter rising , the Sindo missed a trick with that headline.
Maybe he meant to say Irish state and the Easter rising
That was one mixed up article.
Charles Moore’s article in the Telegraph is toss. What an ignorant twit.
He even suggested we should rejoin the commonwealth as a gesture of reconciliation.
i have to laugh at the tory telegraph, they still cant understand that we would want to be independant, that we will wake up in the morning and realise how foolish we have been.
Still yearning for a return to the glorious empire.
I remember a photo of a pensive looking Padraig Harrington catching my eye on a news stand, it was the back page of the Daily Express – another equally anti-Irish rag, it had one word under the photo – ‘Tinker’
As a nation we do seem to have a serious preoccupation with our outward image to the world and what everyone thinks of us.
Many events that take place here are designed to stage manage our national profile and image to the wider world.
Some are particularly cringworthy, as presidents are given bowels of shamrock, heads of state are force fed Guinness and Donald Trump is greeted by Celtic dancing cheerleaders and Harp playing.
Being honest most countries run articles on how events get covered abroad. British and American media certainly do it as well.
Sorry reply was for another comment, agree with your sentiment re Trump etc. How pathetic was Michael Noonan, the minister of Finance, standing beside a red carpet for Donald f*cking Trump at Shannon airport.
Tronald Dump was also greeted by ‘the penguin’ Michael Noonan on the red carpet.
And why shouldn’t we? For such a small nation we’ve managed to win the hearts of others in nearly every corner of the globe. How others perceive us is very important and is key factor in driving our tourism industry. As a nation we’ve mastered the ability to drive others perception of us. Absolutely no harm in keeping an eye on what is being said abroad. In fact I’d actually say it’s quite important/prudent.
Yes… Best little country to do business, open economy, overseas foreign direct investment, multinational corporations, modern tech hub, IFSC…. It’s as much about image as it is tax rates.
We’ve built an economy and created 100′s of thousands of on marketing ourselves as a good base to do business in Europe.
I will never forget when. Bertie Ahern wore those yellow trousers, running behind George W Bush.
It was nearly as bad as Tony Blairs ‘poodle’ exploits with the said Bush idiot.
Ireland has a serious preoccupation with what the neighbours think, whether they be next door, or in the next country.
That”s because Irish people in general have an unhealthy preoccupation with what their neighbours think!
This may be true Brian, but I think that it is what our Northern neighbours think really is the issue and this is why the Irish Government brought in (Presbyterian) Heather Humphries to organise the 1916 events. She did an excellent job in my view and we can’t really comment on what other people think…good, bad or indifferent. Well done to everyone who put Ireland centre stage yesterday and made us all proud.
While it was convenient for the government to stage the commemoration around a bank holiday weekend. This is NOT the centenary.
Truthfully. They should have marked it on the actual date, not on the moveable feast (which in itself is strange).
An enjoyable and sombre commemoration that unfortunately, (& possible the only such commemoration of such a historic event in the world), happened a month too early.
It happened on Easter Monday, today is Easter Monday, there were very few British Soldiers in Dublin as they were all off at the Races. Celebrating it this weekend contextualises the Rising into the correct historical period. The fact that it doesn’t take place on the same date is of lesser importance……..
Both good points, I hope they do actually do something on the date though. It would be odd to let the real centenary pass just cos they did it at easter.
There’s a citizens centenary commemoration at the GPO on the 24th at 11am, before that a 1916 5k walk/run from O’Connell Street to Kilmainham hospital, and probably more.
Pearse choose Easter for the Rising as he was a deeply religious individual and he intentionally situated the event to coincide with the death and resurrection of Christ, which acted as a motif for his own interpretation of what was to follow. It is therefore most appropriate that we should commemorate the sacrifice of these men and women at Easter and not on the chronologically exact date of the centenary.
I think that the Rising was held for many different reasons and did not come down to a single decision by Pearse. Whether we accept it or not Ireland was already at war through differing opinions north and south and the only reason that it hadn’t spilled blood was because Irish Volunteers and Northern forces were dispatched to Flanders to fight against the Kaisers army.
Pearse was a smart and calculating man. He did not plan the Rising because of how it coinciding with the resurection. (Although he would have been foolish not to have used it as a motivator). He is a smarter man than one who would plan his revolution cause luck is on his side. It was on that date because the numbers travelling to Dublin would not arise suspision on a public holiday, the weapon depository was tight rnough time wise to not be noticed and more importantly a hape of the British forces were out of the city at the races.
David, I think the symbolism of Easter WAS important to Pearse. His writings would indicate so. (I’ve copied and pasted a piece from an interesting article on http://www.historyireland.com) :
Pearse also compared the sacrifices necessary to those of Christ: ‘It had taken the blood of the son of God to redeem the world. It would take the blood of the sons of Ireland to redeem Ireland’. And he compared the Irish people to the Messiah: ‘the people labouring, scourged, crowned with thorns, agonising and dying, to rise again immortal and impassable’. In his stories he took this a step further: ‘One man can free a people as one man redeemed the world. I will go into battle with bare hands. I will stand up before the Gael as Christ hung naked before men on the tree’. To counter concerns that England could not be beaten militarily, he emphasised that God was on the Irish side in a reasoning that comes close to that of a jihadist:
‘Always it is the many who fight for the evil thing, and the few who fight for the good thing; and always it is the few who win. For God fights with the small battalions. If sometimes it has seemed otherwise, it is because the few who have fought for the good cause have been guilty of some secret faltering, some infidelity to their best selves, some shrinking back in the face of a tremendous duty.’
The symbolism of Easter was important to Pearse, as indicated in his writings. The excerpt below is from the historyireland website.
Pearse also compared the sacrifices necessary to those of Christ: ‘It had taken the blood of the son of God to redeem the world. It would take the blood of the sons of Ireland to redeem Ireland’. And he compared the Irish people to the Messiah: ‘the people labouring, scourged, crowned with thorns, agonising and dying, to rise again immortal and impassable’. In his stories he took this a step further: ‘One man can free a people as one man redeemed the world. I will go into battle with bare hands. I will stand up before the Gael as Christ hung naked before men on the tree’. To counter concerns that England could not be beaten militarily, he emphasised that God was on the Irish side in a reasoning that comes close to that of a jihadist:
‘Always it is the many who fight for the evil thing, and the few who fight for the good thing; and always it is the few who win. For God fights with the small battalions.’
Double post, sorry.
I agree, Ibelieve it was very important to him. What I was saying was that, unlike the poster I was replying to, I doubt it was THE reason for the Rising was on Easter.
Stop moaning about the date. Besides you forgot to adjust it for leap years and daylight savings time. It’s called Easter Rising not 24th-29th April Rising and Easter Sunday was chosen for its symbolic nature.
Ireland holds centenary after 99 years and 11 months. St. Patricks day to be held in February next year. Christmas put back to November. More news at 10.
For years the Easter Rising was funnily enough rememered at Easter time. Did you expect it to be changed this year!
Well considering it’s a centenary on April 24th, I expected it to be done correctly.
Well done Trevor,you know the actual date!
But did the Rebels pick a date?
Or the Easter weekend????
Don’t worry the actual date will be celebrated too,
You’re the type of person who insists on having weddings and bithdays in the midde f the week, so everybody has to take a day off work.
*of
I don’t insist on anything, but I’d expect a centenary to be celebrated on 100 years, not a month early.
There’s always one…
Did Jesus really die on the first full moon after the equinox, or is there another reason for moveable feast of Easter.
Having thought about this, Trevor’s sensitivities to dates are very important, it should be moved to the actual date and renamed the Spring Rising! All in favour……
what did I miss? I was bust eating my “seasonal chocolate eggs”
You don’t expect anything. You just like fcuking complaining. Piss off.
The symbolism of the Easter Rising is vitally important. Hence, this weekend is correct in the celebrations. There are also celebrations on the 24th April. So both time periods will be remembered. So chill man, chill. As for moving the date of Christ. You’re probably rgt since the 25th December wasn’t the birth of Christ. It was decided after some time by pagan Romans. But anyyyyhooooo….
Commemorate it on your own then come April 24th if you feel so passionate about it.
Good question Chris Kirk.
The Irish and Rome have been fighting about the date of Easter for exactly 1352 years Chris.
The Synod of Whitby (664 A.D.) was held at an Irish colony in Northumbria called “Lindisfarne”.
King Oswiu of Northumbria eventually ruled that his kingdom would calculate Easter and observe the monastic tonsure according to the customs of Rome, rather than the customs practised by Irish monks at Iona and its satellite institutions.
(County Mayo here in Ireland ultimately derives its name from that historical event incidentally….google “Mayo of the Saxons”).
Pat, I don’t claim to be an expert on ecclesiastical matters and I agree wirh you on the Whitby date for settling the old calendar. But wasnt it the Normans who eventually put the boot into the Irish church after the Synod of Kells, which pulled us into the Roman church by the scruff of the neck.
Actually my birthday is on the 24th of April too. So I can assure you, I will be celebrating all things great on that day. Hoooohaaaaa….
Kinda sad for a supposedly secular modern republic to still be in the thrall of a flying spaghetti monster’s arbitrary calendar. Even more pathetic that a bunch of glib conservative gobsheens would slag people off for pointing this out. Why are we letting a hierarchy of pederasts and paedophiles decide when we celebrate this pivotal moment in our state’s history? The Rising took place on 24 April 1916 and the fact that it coincided with Easter was symbolic and convenient but to keep commemorating according to the Pascal calendar is an embarrassing hangover from our days of thrall to the rapey stormcrows. Time we actually marked the date like a grown-up secular republic rather than bleating about Pearce and Easter and all that mystical catholic guff.
Here we go, external naval gazing again. Just celebrate the dam thing and get locked, who cares what the world thinks
What’s wrong with external naval gazing? When I visit my cousin in Haulbowline I like to gaze upon our mighty fleet, tho’ on cold days I prefer to do it internally.
You can always rely on the torygraph to lower the tone.
They bemoan loss of sovereignty to the EU, but fail to see the hypocrisy when discussing Irish sovereignty. Telling us to join the commonwealth, as if the empiire hadn’t dissappeared and the great game was afoot, where the great powers could create and dissappear small countries with the stroke of a pen.
By “World Media” you mean a few papers in the UK and US. Fair enough. It would be interesting to see what the rest of the actual world made of it, if anything esp in light of events in Brussels, Palmyra and Lahore today
That’s the first thing I thought too. Is the world really only represented by the English-speaking area? What the about the (not so insignificant) rest?
Have to admit it was an impressive presentation by RTE and their team however I have to comment on the army officer caught on his mobile phone while the president was laying a wreath. It was quite disgraceful and later the army dismissed this clowns actions as not being disrespectful, notwithstanding the phone this buffoon had his hand in his pocket and a nice smirk on his face. Appalling indiscipline and the caption was repeated on both sky news and the BBC . An officer he maybe but certainly not a gentleman. http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/1916/defence-forces-dismiss-claims-officer-acted-inappropriately-by-speaking-on-mobile-phone-during-1916-wreath-laying-34576301.html
Absolutely agree, Joey. How can the Army say he had not acted inappropriately?!? Clearly, he was receiving a personal call, which one can tell from his demeanour, and his hand in his pocket, while he is centre-stage at the centenary commemorations and the laying of the wreath on behalf of all our citizens by the President. Most disrespectful!
I’m slightly surprised you didn’t include the fantastic four page Easter rising supplement in the ‘Djibouti Times’
They would of seen that the ordinary citizens of the country were locked out of the city – celebrating freedom!!
People who say “would of” deserve to be locked out
Give yourself a gold star Lorem Einstein.
We’ve done the Commemoration, so can we just move on with life as we know it today, and deal with problems of today?
Problems?
Here in Nirvana!
You must be one of those “glass half empty” sorts we don’t need around here!
And what socio-economic problems would you like the journal to solve for you today?
We will deal wirh that next week Johnny, lets get this party out of the way first.
I’ve been traveling round Asia and Australia on business all Easter week it’s certainly garnered international interest. The general tone of professional people abroad is lots of awkwardness describing celebrations as controversial or questioning the appropriateness… Particularly as coverage of it is pretty much interspaced between coverage of the aftermath of Brussels.
I was asked a lot about the current situation, if it’s safe and if tensions have returned up north.
It reminded me of Bastile Day in Paris, far too militaristic but I pose the question, was the likes of Bobby Sands, MP included in the commeration, for at leat Mr. Sands had a democratic mandate for his actions which the 1916 rebels lacked.It’s funny how “selective group thought” can legitimise one man actions with a gun while reviling another man’s actions, when both actions are inextricably linked and both men driven by the same cause and ideology but their actions just happen to be 70 years apart.
Charles – you are comparing the actions of a large nuclear world power like France with that of Ireland, a small neutral country with a proud UN record of peace keeping around the world.
With respect the actions of Bobby Sands as an UK member of Parliament had nothing to do with it.
Chris,the rebels were British citizens in a British city, the very same status as Bobby Sands MP.
The Almost Centenary Celebrations!
Sure it’ll be grand! No one will notice.
Great day in town today. Good atmosphere and celebrations. Only downside were the helicopters above who were drowning out the music.
Here in Dingle the Rebel Co Kerry
It was peaceful and subdued
Video: https://youtu.be/-KmiE-GJxPI
Cork is the Rebel County !
Dingle Holiday, is that you?
A commemorating where the people are excluded
Our?
Yes.
Your.
No, our. As in Irelands. The country you choose to live in.
Because I live in a place does not mean that I approve of some act of terrorism perpetrated by a gang of murderous fanatics 100 years ago. I reserve my admiration for men who preach peace.
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Content presented to you on this service can be based on limited data, such as the website or app you are using, your non-precise location, your device type, or which content you are (or have been) interacting with (for example, to limit the number of times a video or an article is presented to you).
With your acceptance, your precise location (within a radius of less than 500 metres) may be used in support of the purposes explained in this notice.
With your acceptance, certain characteristics specific to your device might be requested and used to distinguish it from other devices (such as the installed fonts or plugins, the resolution of your screen) in support of the purposes explained in this notice.
Your data can be used to monitor for and prevent unusual and possibly fraudulent activity (for example, regarding advertising, ad clicks by bots), and ensure systems and processes work properly and securely. It can also be used to correct any problems you, the publisher or the advertiser may encounter in the delivery of content and ads and in your interaction with them.
Certain information (like an IP address or device capabilities) is used to ensure the technical compatibility of the content or advertising, and to facilitate the transmission of the content or ad to your device.
Information about your activity on this service may be matched and combined with other information relating to you and originating from various sources (for instance your activity on a separate online service, your use of a loyalty card in-store, or your answers to a survey), in support of the purposes explained in this notice.
In support of the purposes explained in this notice, your device might be considered as likely linked to other devices that belong to you or your household (for instance because you are logged in to the same service on both your phone and your computer, or because you may use the same Internet connection on both devices).
Your device might be distinguished from other devices based on information it automatically sends when accessing the Internet (for instance, the IP address of your Internet connection or the type of browser you are using) in support of the purposes exposed in this notice.
The choices you make regarding the purposes and entities listed in this notice are saved and made available to those entities in the form of digital signals (such as a string of characters). This is necessary in order to enable both this service and those entities to respect such choices.
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