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Internet Censorship: Wikileaks Suspends Publishing to Fight Financial Blockade

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has announced the organization is suspending the publishing of secret documents in order to concentrate on fundraising to ensure its future survival. At a news conference in London, Assange said a financial blockade by American companies

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Posted in Corporate Censorship, Internet Censorship

Who is WikiLeaks Blaming for Breaching Its Security? *

Whistleblowing website names names. Former ally blamed for leaking secret password. WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing website, has said that its massive archive of unredacted US state department cables was exposed in a security breach, which it blamed on its one-time partner – Britain’s Guardian newspaper.

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Posted in Human Rights, Internet Censorship

A Situation of Parenti Control? Has WikiLeaks Inspired Artist @ExiledSurfer Been Censored, Blocked on US Government Networks?

Re-published from Wikileaks-Movie.com under the Creative Commons License Written by Jacob Andrews @exiledsurfer censored? ArtificialEyes.tv, the website and blog operated by artist and “Wikivisionary” Michael Parenti, appears to have been blocked and censored on at least one U.S. government computer network. While WikiLeaks-Movie.com is

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Posted in Human Rights

At least 14 Arrested in ‘Anonymous’ Hackers Bust

According to CNN, a federal government official said at least 14 people connected to the activist hacker group ‘Anonymous‘ were arrested today in a nationwide bust that stretched from California to New Jersey. Early this morning, the FBI executed search warrants

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Australian Journalist Arrested Over Facebook Photo

By Kevin Rennie Australian journalist arrested and iPad seized! No it’s not Julian Assange. But Ben Grubb’s brief encounter with Queensland authorities raised several serious cyber issues including social media privacy and security, police powers of arrest and confiscation of

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Posted in Human Rights

US Media Outlets Criticised For Their WikiLeaks Stance

Source: Index on Censorship – By Emily Badger One of the oddest strands of the WikiLeaks story in the US over the past year — and this week marks the one-year anniversary of the release of the “collateral murder” video

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Posted in Corporate Censorship

Harvard Law Reviews WikiLeaks Censorship

Source: Ground Report – By Dean Walker Originally published on The Daily Censored for Project Censored Harvard Law Professor Yochai Benkler is about to release a comprehensive study on the U.S. government and media’s role in censoring WikiLeaks. The forthcoming

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Posted in Human Rights

While Clinton Calls for Free Speech, Ray McGovern is Arrested and Abused Before Her Eyes for Exercising Free Speech

source: Counter Punch – By Kevin Zeese Hillary’s Hypocrisy On Tuesday, February 15th Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a speech on the importance of Freedom of Speech in the Internet age. She focused her attention on foreign countries and

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Assange: China Is ‘Technological Enemy’ Of Wikileaks

Source: redOrbit WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, in comments published on Thursday, has attacked China calling it the “technological enemy” of the whistleblower website because of its aggressive Internet censorship. China, with its wide-reaching Internet censorship system commonly referred to as

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Homeland Security’s Laptop Seizures: Interview with Rep. Sanchez

Source: Salon – By Glenn Greenwald AP For those who regularly write and read about civil liberties abuses, it’s sometimes easy to lose perspective of just how extreme and outrageous certain erosions are.  One becomes inured to them, and even

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Posted in Human Rights

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