Blog Archives

Internet Censorship: Enemies of the Internet – Infographic

Posted on September 18, 2012 by Action for Freedom — 5 Comments

Brought to you by our friends at open-site.org (Creative Commons License) If you think identity theft is the worst-case-scenario of Internet use, you clearly don’t live in any of the nations that make the list of top “Enemies of the…

Tagged with: Barack Obama, facebook, Google, Identity theft, Internet censorship, Nation, Online Communities, social networking, Twitter
Posted in Internet Censorship

Facebook Loses “Cool Points” – Censoring Art Getting Ridiculous

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Action for Freedom — 34 Comments

Did you know that the CBS Morning Show, Twitter, the local art gallery, and high school art class are way cooler than Facebook? Well, they are, and here is why. Andrew Zar, owner of Dark Brain Comics (darkbrain.com), has had…

Tagged with: All Articles, Art, art, Banned, censorship, Censorship in America, Corporate Censorship, facebook, Facebook Service, First Amendment, Frank Frazetta, Frazetta, Free Speech, Free Speech Internet, General Censorship, Internet, internet, Internet censorship, Newsworthy, Online Communities, Social Network, Social network service, Stupidity!, Twitter, United States
Posted in Corporate Censorship

Tunisian Blogger Resigns From Government Over Internet Censorship

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Action for Freedom — 6 Comments

Tunis – A renowned Tunisian blogger who was imprisoned during the country’s Jasmine Revolution announced Tuesday his resignationfrom the country’s interim government, apparently in protest over the resumption of internet censorship. Slim Amadou, 23, minister for sport and youth, announced…

Tagged with: 2010–2011 Tunisian protests, All Articles, big brother, censorship, Express FM, facebook, Facebook Service, Free Speech, Free Speech Internet, Freedom of the Press, General Censorship, Government, Government, Human Rights and Liberties, Intellectual Freedom, Internet, Jasmine Revolution, Newsworthy, Online Communities, Politics, Provisional government, Rachid Ammar, Social Network, Social network service, Tunisia, Twitter
Posted in Human Rights

UK Court Expands ‘Super Injunction’ Censorship Rules To Include Twitter & Facebook

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Action for Freedom — 2 Comments

There’s been a lot of attention paid recently to the process of super injunctions being issued in the UK, which block newspapers from reporting on certain people or issues (quite frequently, they’re used to get stories of famous people having…

Tagged with: All Articles, big brother, Broadcasting, Celebrity, censorship, facebook, Facebook Service, Free Speech, Free Speech Internet, Freedom of speech, General Censorship, Government, Government, Human Rights and Liberties, Injunction, Intellectual Freedom, Internet, internet, Internet censorship, Jemima Khan, Newsworthy, Online Communities, Politics, social networking, Social Networks, Superinjunction, Techdirt, Twitter, UK
Posted in Human Rights

Twitter Clarifies Own Censorship Policy

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Action for Freedom — 1 Comment

Source: Computer World The shutting down of Twitter and the internet in Egypt has prompted the social networking site to issue a statement on the company’s own regulation of communication on the internet. In the post, Twitter co-founder, Biz Stone,…

Tagged with: Alexander Macgillivray, All Articles, Biz Stone, Corporate Censorship, Egypt, Free Speech Internet, Freedom of speech, General Censorship, Government, Hosni Mubarak, Internet, internet kill switch, Newsworthy, Online Communities, social networking, Twitter
Posted in Corporate Censorship

Political and Religious Censorship and Harassment by Facebook (User-Submitted Article)

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Action for Freedom — 7 Comments

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Censorship in America, its owner(s) or affiliate(s). By Steve Winter Does not Facebook have a…

Tagged with: All Articles, censorship, Censorship in America, China, Corporate Censorship, facebook, Facebook Service, Free Speech Internet, General Censorship, Google, Intellectual Freedom, Internet, Internet censorship, Mark Zuckerberg, Online Communities, Political censorship, Social Network, User-Submitted Articles
Posted in Corporate Censorship

Facebook Trying To Deactivate The Truth

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

Source: Desert Peace In Defense of Uruknet! Tonight’s post is about defending one of our colleages, comrades, friends, and allies. Tonight is about defending Uruknet whose blog is dedicated to providing information from the Middle East. For those of you…

Tagged with: Account Profile, Activism, All Articles, Allies, Blog, censorship, Comrades, Corporate Censorship, danah boyd, Desert, facebook, Facebook Service, First Amendment, Free Speech, General Censorship, Login, Middle East, Online Communities, Palestine Solidarity, Peace Palestine, postaday2011, Privacy, Social media, Social Network, Sofia, Solidarity Activists, Surprize, truth, Url, Uruknet Info, Web Design and Development
Posted in Corporate Censorship

Facebook will NOT END on March 15!

Posted on January 8, 2011 by Action for Freedom — 9 Comments

↑ Grab this Headline Animator There is a wild rumor virally spreading around the internet that Facebook will end on March 15. Well, don’t believe everything you read (haha). Facebook is NOT going to end on March 15. The $500…

Tagged with: All Articles, Business Insider, Digital Sky Technologies, facebook, Facebook Service, Facebook will end on March 15, Facebook will NOT end on March 14, Goldman Sachs, Initial public offering, Internet, Investment, Online Communities, postaday2011, Public company, rumor, Social Network, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, viral, Wall Street Journal
Posted in Uncategorized

Facebook Censorship = Censorbook

Posted on December 18, 2010 by Action for Freedom — 54 Comments

Facebook is one of the world’s busiest websites, second only to Google, according to Alexa. One would think that with such a diverse, broad reaching audience, Facebook would set a better example for everyone else. Apparently, freedom of expression is…

Tagged with: Alexa Internet, All Articles, Breast cancer, Censorbook, censorship, Censorship in America, facebook, Facebook Service, First Amendment, Free Speech, Free Speech Internet, Freedom of speech, General Censorship, Google, Intellectual Freedom, Internet, internet, Internet censorship, Muhammad, Online Communities, Social Network, United States, Wall Street Journal, Wikileaks, Wired (magazine)
Posted in Uncategorized

Twitter Responds to Wikileak Censorship Allegation

Posted on December 11, 2010 by Action for Freedom — 5 Comments

The suspicion surrounding Twitter‘s censoring of the “Wikileaks” topic from trending comes on the heels of PayPal‘s admission that they caved under governmental pressures and stopped handling Wikileaks’ donation payments. Amazon also stopped hosting the Wikileaks site last week, presumably…