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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,…

Tagged with: Blog, Blogger, HTML, Publishers, Tools, Twitter, WordPress, WordPress.com
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North Korea Cuts 3G Mobile Web Access for Foreign Visitors

Posted on March 28, 2013 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

Groups that organize trips to North Korea say the country is no longer offering mobile Internet to foreign visitors, just weeks after it unveiled a new 3G service that promised an unprecedented look into the notoriously closed state. The apparently…

Tagged with: censorship, Instagram, Internet, Internet censorship, Koryo Tours, Koryolink, Leeds University, mobile phone service, Mobile Web, North Korea, Pyongyang, Technology, Twitter
Posted in Censorship, Internet Censorship

Special Report: Global Politics Shaken By Social Media (Video)

Posted on March 16, 2013 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

Italian comedian-turned-politician Beppe Grillo drew the largest vote for a single party in Italy’s election last month – despite shunning traditional campaign platforms such as TV, in favor of using social media like Facebook to spread his message. Analysts say…

Tagged with: Arab Spring, Beppe Grillo, Censorship in America, Douglas Carswell, facebook, Five Star Movement, Internet, italian elections, Italy, Occupy Wall Street, Politics, Twitter, University of Westminster, YouTube
Posted in Special Report, World News

Internet Censorship: Weibo Censors Move with Great Speed

Posted on March 14, 2013 by Action for Freedom — 1 Comment

Despite 300 million users generating more than 100 million posts per day, Chinese censors are very adept at deleting unwanted material on Weibo, the country’s main blogging platform. The censors are also fast, according to new research. “What’s interesting is…

Tagged with: Bo Xilai, Bowdoin College, censorship, China, Google, Internet, Internet censorship, Rice University, Sina, Sina Weibo, Technology, Twitter, Wallach
Posted in Censorship, Internet Censorship

Internet Censorship: Dark Musings #46 – Anti Free-Speech Assault on Twitter

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

Written by Andrew Zar of DarkBrain Comics – Re-Published by permission. I’ve always been proud of Twitter and Tumblr – they promote free speech – while other Internet titans (Google, Apple, FaceBook) actually aggressively suppress free speech. It is a…

Tagged with: Apple, darkbrain, facebook, Freedom of speech, Freedom of the Press, Google, Internet, Internet censorship, Stop Online Piracy Act, Twitter, Twitter Censorship, United State
Posted in Censorship, Internet Censorship

Internet Censorship: New Internet Regulations Provide Window into North Korea

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

Foreigners living in and visiting North Korea can now access Twitter, Facebook, and other social media on their mobile phones, providing what could be an unprecedented, real-time view of the notoriously isolated country. A slow but steady stream of tweets…

Tagged with: Associated Press, blogging, censorship, Free Speech Internet, Gareth Johnson, Instagram, Internet, Internet censorship, Koryolink, Martyn Williams, mobile service provider, North Korea, Pyongyang, Technology, Twitter
Posted in Censorship, Internet Censorship, World News

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

Internet Censorship: Raising Global Awareness of the Plight of Syrian Bloggers

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

The number of citizen journalists killed or arrested in Syria rises daily. While some, such as Razan Ghazzawi—who won Frontline Defenders’ award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk—have received ample international attention for their plight, many others have gone largely…

Tagged with: censorship, Censorship in America, Electronic Frontier Foundation, facebook, Front Line, Human rights defender, Hussein Ghrer, Razan, Syria, Twitter
Posted in Censorship, Government Control, Human Rights, Internet Censorship

A Sincere Apology From CensorshipinAmerica.com

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

I let you down. After you were loyal, and you “liked” my site on facebook, twitter, etc. After you followed my blog on WordPress, and even subscribed to my posts by email. I let you down. You, my readers, fans,…

Tagged with: blogging, censorship, facebook, I'm Sorry, social networking, Twitter, WordPress
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Internet Censorship: Chopping the Head off LulzSec

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Action for Freedom — 3 Comments

For a while, it seemed that the hacker group with the silly name was running rings around the FBI. In the end, however, it appears it was the FBI running the show. In the summer of 2011, LulzSec – supposedly…