Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Wikipedia Blackout Protest Has Plenty Of Company Comment on Internet crackdown shows cracks as Sen. Bennet of Colorado backs away from antipiracy legislation Websites going black to protest bills in Congress Reddit's SOPA Admirable but Google and Facebook Must Follow The List Censoring Countries MPAA Thinks Provide A Good Example For US Finally Acknowledges Existence UnfortunatelyNamed Town Effin [Censorship] Lamar Smith Out Touch With Still It's Just That Opposes Insane Entitlement EMI Sues Irish Gov't Not Passing SOPALike Censorship Law WordPress Latest Tech To Come Strongly Against SOPA/PIPA How Creates Architecture Much More Widespread Raging Grannies ICE Propaganda Film Pats Itself On Back Web; Promises China Ramps Up Online Efforts As Gives Them Perfect Cover Heritage Foundation Says Threatens Free Speech Harvard Researchers Explain Supporters Are Misusing Their Research Support Boss Chris Dodd Denies Copyright Today Created Any Issues State Dept Don't Censor Internet! Unless We Order You Did In Spain...

First SOPA, Then Identity: What We Can Learn from Chinese Censorship With the U.S. government trying to pass what Google's Sergey Brin has called "China-like censorship," China has found a new way to tamp down free expression on the Internet: make people use their real names. ... Obama Won't Back Censorship in Piracy Bills The Obama administration won't back legislation to combat online piracy if it encourages censorship, undermines cybersecurity or disrupts the structure of the Internet, three White House technology officials said. White House Won't Back Internet Censorship in Anti-Piracy Bills The Obama administration won't back legislation to combat online piracy if it encourages censorship, undermines cybersecurity or disrupts the structure of the Internet, three White House technology officials said. After censorship relaxation, change obscenity laws Mark Camilleri was acquitted of obscenity charges after publishing a short story by Alex Vella Gera. Censorship at Harvard Comes as No Surprise ? Academics and observers of the academy have for several weeks now been professing shock at what even one of the perpetrators has called unprecedented at Harvard - the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' striking of uncontroversial economics courses taught by now-controversial Indian politician Subramanian Swamy, without even inviting him to defend himself. But we ... Websites protest antipiracy bills as censorship Some technology companies and free-speech activists say two bills aimed at fighting Internet piracy will allow government censorship of the Internet. Owen Bonnici: change the criminal code about censorship Partit Laburista (PL) Culture spokesman Owen Bonnici said today that the abolition of censorship in cinema and theatre should lead to a change on Article 208 of the Criminal Code that defines what is obscene. It should not lead to censorship, says professor KUALA LUMPUR: Excessive practice of moderation might become an act of censorship that stifles differing views, said a Dutch professor. Doco censorship called an 'affront to democracy' A documentary maker is outraged that NZ On Air is considering banning some television programmes in the weeks before an election. Critics say bills could amount to censorship Wikipedia was one of several websites that shut down at midnight in protest of anti-piracy bills that critics say could amount to censorship.
Key Words: censorship

References:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/01/wikipedia-blackout-pipa-sopa-protest-google/
http://feeds.denverpost.com/~r/dp-opinion-comments/~3/jR7vpzsw-40/viewtopic.php
http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2012/01/11/reddits-sopa-blackout-admirable-but-google-and-facebook-must-follow/
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111219/02551217124/list-internet-censoring-countries-mpaa-thinks-provide-good-example-us.shtml
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120112/09203917388/insane-entitlement-emi-sues-irish-govt-not-passing-sopa-like-censorship-law.shtml
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120110/17470317370/wordpress-latest-tech-company-to-come-out-strongly-against-sopapipa.shtml
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111223/03470117178/harvard-researchers-explain-that-sopa-supporters-are-misusing-their-research-to-support-sopa.shtml
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120106/02441117296/mpaa-boss-chris-dodd-denies-that-copyright-law-today-has-created-any-free-speech-issues.shtml
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