China has unblocked the popular entertainment website IMDB (Internet Movie Database), which has been blocked since 2010. “I know very few cases where a site that’s been blocked for a long time is unblocked,” said Doug Young, a journalism professor…
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Special Report: Global Politics Shaken By Social Media (Video)
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
Posted in Special Report, World News
Censorship in America: Who Owns The News?
It went bad at the very end, and started with the #7 car. On the last lap of last Saturday’s NASCAR qualifying heat in Daytona Beach, Florida, the race cars were bunched so tightly together they appeared to be touching.…
YouTube’s Censorship of Anti-Islam Video Raises Numerous Questions Around Online Free Expression
Re-Published from eff.org (Creative Commons) Written by Jillian C. York. The reactions over the past week to a video, ‘The Innocence of Muslims’—made by an Egyptian-American Christian and later shown by Egyptian television, sparking riots—have varied wildly. While some governments…
Tagged with: censorship, Censorship in America, Freedom of speech, United States, YouTube
Posted in Internet Censorship
Posted in Internet Censorship
World News: Pakistani Protesters March on US Consulate
Hundreds of Pakistanis protesting an anti-Islam video produced in the United States have clashed with police as they tried to march toward the U.S. Consulate in the southern city of Karachi. Police fired tear gas and water cannon at the…
Tagged with: Middle East, Pakistan, Protest, United States, Unrest, Video Response, World News, YouTube
Posted in World News
Posted in World News
Censorship or Sensationalism?
The “Innocence of Muslims” And The Spread Of Internet Rumor Once again, the world is learning the hard way that in the tinderbox of religion and politics, the Internet can be gasoline. This week’s shocking attack on a U.S. consulate…
Tagged with: censorship, Censorship in America, Christopher Stevens, Egypt, Libya, Los Angeles Times, Middle East, Nakoula, Simon Wiesenthal Center, social networking sites, Wall Street Journal, YouTube
Posted in Media Censorship
Posted in Media Censorship
DMCA: Horrors of a Broad and Automated Censorship Tool
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
Posted in Censorship, Free Speech, Freedom of Expression
Burma: Censorship Abolished In ‘Months’
The head of Burma’s censorship board says a law has been drafted and is awaiting approval. Burma’s censorship chief insisted Wednesday that the country’s censorship board will be abolished in “a matter of months,” despite recent reports of a rollback…
Tagged with: 88 Generation Students Group, Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, censorship, censorship board, Censorship in America, democratic practices, Freedom of Expression, National League for Democracy, parliament session, Press Censorship, Thein Sein, verbal warnings, Wednesday, YouTube
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Posted in Censorship
SOPA / PIPA Take a Beating From Activist Groups and YOU!
We’re hearing it from Senate offices, and we’re hearing it from people who’ve been bombarding Washington with calls: The phones in the Capitol have been ringing off the hooks this week. It’s having an impact: just days ago Hollywood’s head…
Tagged with: American Censorship, Censorship in America, Internet Protocol, Motion Picture Association of America, PIPA, Senate, SOPA, United States, United States Senate, YouTube
Posted in Corporate Censorship, Free Speech, Freedom of Expression, Government Control, Human Rights, Internet Censorship
Posted in Corporate Censorship, Free Speech, Freedom of Expression, Government Control, Human Rights, Internet Censorship
Even Though SOPA / PIPA Are Hot Topics, Remember DMCA Already Has Significant Problems
A number of folks on both sides of the SOPA/PIPA debates have noted the seeming “irony” that the anti-SOPA/PIPA folks keep pointing to the DMCA and complaining about how SOPA/PIPA will undermine the DMCA. After all, many in the tech…
Tagged with: American Censorship, Censorship in America, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, DMCA, Internet Protocol, Motion Picture Association of America, PIPA, Senate, SOPA, United States, United States Senate, YouTube
Posted in Free Speech, Freedom of Expression, Government Control, Human Rights, Internet Censorship, Media Censorship, Music Censorship
Posted in Free Speech, Freedom of Expression, Government Control, Human Rights, Internet Censorship, Media Censorship, Music Censorship
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