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Announcement to All Blog Followers: Moving My Blog!

Posted on April 20, 2013 by Action for Freedom — 2 Comments

Hello to all my WordPress blog followers! After 2½ years on the WordPress.com publishing platform, I have decided to make a change. My time here at WordPress has been very fulfilling. I really have learned a lot about blogging, html,…

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Internet Censorship: Is a Declaration of Internet Freedom What the Internet Needs?

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Action for Freedom — 7 Comments

Written by Jillian C. York Re-published from Global Voices under the Creative Commons License On July 4, a group of digital rights and other advocacy organizations unleashed a set of rights and principles for the Internet dubbed the Declaration of…

Tagged with: censorship, Censorship in America, Free Speech Internet, Internet, Internet censorship
Posted in Censorship, Freedom of Expression, Internet Censorship

Hypocrisy in Hollywood: Infographic

Posted on March 4, 2012 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

Created by: Paralegal.net

Tagged with: censorship, Censorship in America, entertainment, Hollywood, Hypocrisy, Occupy Wall Street, Politics
Posted in Censorship, Freedom of Expression, Government Control

DMCA: Horrors of a Broad and Automated Censorship Tool

Posted on March 4, 2012 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

The DMCA was once drafted to protect the interests of copyright holders, allowing them to take infringing content offline. Today, however, the system is systematically abused by rights-holders as an overboard censorship tool. One third of the notices sent to…

Tagged with: censorship, Censorship in America, content offline, Copyright, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Google, honest mistake, Hotfile, Internet, Microsoft, open source operating system, penalty of perjury, Technology, TorrentFreak, Universal Music Group, YouTube
Posted in Censorship, Free Speech, Freedom of Expression

Internet Opens Russia for Democracy Movement

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

Russia’s protest movement grew and got organized with speed that startled many in the political establishment. Russia’s uncensored Internet allows people to communicate, coordinate and raise money for rallies, all through their computers. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is running for…

Tagged with: Alexey Navalny, censorship, Dmitry Medvedev, Moscow, prime minister putin, Putin, Russia, russian opposition, Sam Greene, sasha baron cohen, United States, Vladimir Putin
Posted in Freedom of Expression, Human Rights, Internet Censorship

Art Censorship: Pissy Pussy Comic – ‘Getting Social’

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Action for Freedom — 1 Comment

The following comic art, story and characters are Copyright © 2012 DarkBrain, LLC. All rights reserved. Images used by permission of DarkBrain, LLC. See more awesome art and comics at DarkBrain.com Download this free edition as a PDF…

Tagged with: Art Censorship, censorship, Comic Book Censorship, darkbrain, pissy, pussy
Posted in Freedom of Expression, Literature Censorship

Internet Censorship: The Wiki Blackout, One Day Later

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Action for Freedom — 1 Comment

Just What, If Anything, Did Wednesday’s Protest Achieve? Not content to leave the battle un-joined, the hacker group Anonymous stepped into the SOPA fray Thursday evening by launching a massive denial of service attack on several SOPA supporters, including Universal…

Tagged with: Ben Huh, Google, Motion Picture Association of America, PIPA, Protect IP Act, SOPA, Twitter, Wikipedia
Posted in Freedom of Expression, Human Rights, Internet Censorship

Internet Censorship: Copyright Enforcement Vs. Censorship — Impact Of ‘Megaupload’ Case

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Action for Freedom — 1 Comment

Joss Wright, a researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, speaks to RFE/RL correspondent Ron Synovitz about the possible impact of the Megaupload copyright case on Internet freedoms around the world. RFE/RL:…

Tagged with: censorship, Copyright infringement, Federal government of the United States, Filesharing, Kim Schmitz, Megaupload, PIPA, Protect IP Act, SOPA, United States, University of Oxford, US government
Posted in Freedom of Expression, Human Rights, Internet Censorship

Freedom of Expression: Sharia Police Arrest ‘Punks’ in Indonesia’s Aceh

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Action for Freedom — 1 Comment

Indonesian police in the Sharia-ruled province, Aceh, have detained 25 teenagers, but it is not clear why. The youths call themselves “punks” and human rights activists call their detention an attempt to curb freedom of expression in the traditionally conservative…

Tagged with: Aceh, Banda Aceh, Chief of police, Indonesia, Indonesian National Police, Jakarta, Sharia, West Java
Posted in Free Speech, Freedom of Expression, Government Control

Music Censorship: North Korea Crackdown on ‘Thumb Drives’

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Action for Freedom — 4 Comments

North Koreans find new ways to access illicit South Korean pop culture. North Korean authorities are stepping up a crackdown on portable media devices in an attempt to block the spread of “Korean Wave” culture from the South, North Korean…