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Internet Responds to Huck Finn Censorship – BlackBook

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

Internet Responds to Huck Finn Censorship – BlackBook.

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2010 Trend Watch Update: Global Internet Censorship

Posted on December 30, 2010 by Action for Freedom — 7 Comments

Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation By Peter Eckersley At the beginning of this year EFF identified a dozen important trends in law, technology and business that we thought would play a significant role in shaping digital rights in 2010, with a…

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Online Censorship Grows in 2010, Showing Power of Netizens

Posted on December 29, 2010 by Action for Freedom — 3 Comments

Source: PBS By Clothilde Le Coz Despite some good PR for online freedom this year, online censorship grew and became more subtle in 2010. Online propaganda remains strong within countries like China and Iran, where media censorship is everywhere and…

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This Year in Unnecessary Censorship (Video)

Posted on December 17, 2010 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

Check out Jimmy Kimmel‘s “This Year in Unnecessary Censorship.” (Video)

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#1. Global Plans to Replace the Dollar

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Action for Freedom — 1 Comment

Nations have reached their limit in subsidizing the United States’ military adventures. During meetings in June 2009 in Yekaterinburg, Russia, world leaders such as China’s President Hu Jintao, Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev, and other top officials of the six-nation Shanghai…

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#2. US Department of Defense is the Worst Polluter on the Planet

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

The US military is responsible for the most egregious and widespread pollution of the planet, yet this information and accompanying documentation goes almost entirely unreported. In spite of the evidence, the environmental impact of the US military goes largely unaddressed…

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#3. Internet Privacy and Personal Access at Risk

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

Following in the steps of its predecessor, the Obama administration is expanding mass government surveillance of personal electronic communications. This surveillance, which includes the monitoring of the Internet as well as private (nongovernmental) computers, is proceeding with the proposal or…

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#4. ICE Operates Secret Detention and Courts

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

Agents of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are holding thousands of US residents in unlisted and unmarked subfield offices and deporting tens of thousands in secret court hearings. “If you don’t have enough evidence to charge someone criminally…

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#5. Blackwater (Xe): The Secret US War in Pakistan

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Action for Freedom — 1 Comment

At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they…

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#6. Health Care Restrictions Cost Thousands of Lives in US

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

Despite national legislative health reform, health care in the US will remain dismal for many Americans, resulting in continuing deaths and personal tragedies. A recent Harvard research team estimates that 2,266 US military veterans died in 2008 due to lack…