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Tag Archives: censorship
Into the Memory Hole?
Hmm. It seems that media reports filed on November 5th explicitly stating that Obama met with Governor Blagojevich to discuss his Senate replacement, are suddenly disappearing from the web.
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged archival revisionism, Blagojevich, censorship, journalism, Media, media bias, Obama, senate
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MySpace: Censoring the Disabled
MySpace, apparently in the mood for universal condemnation, has deleted the photographs of burn victim BJ McCombs for being “offensive” on sight. I don’t know about you, but when I think of the limitless number of offensive things I’ve seen … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged BJ McCombs, burn victim, censorship, myspace, offensive, photos, sconets, social networks
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GVO Summit: The Power of Organized Utopianism
One of the subtextual themes coming out of the conference so far is what can almost be called a double-standard: the participants demand the right to unrestricted speech, but recoil in horror at the consequences such speech brings. It is … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Media, regulation
Tagged activisim, Budapest, censorship, conference, freedom, Global Voices Online, human rights, speech
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Global Voices Online Citizen’s Media Summit 08
Hey everybody. First off, Budapest is a great city! We’re about to start the GVO meting, which is focusing mostly on net censorship. Considering my other blog, Registan.net, is definitely blocked in Uzbekistan, and quite possibly elsewhere, this matters tremendously, … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Media
Tagged Budapest, censorship, Global Voices Online, summit 08
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The Muhammad-pedia Controversy
After their success getting the Muhammad cartoons banned, some Muslims have now set their sights on wikipedia. Recently a large group of Muslims have started an email campaign asking wikipedia to remove their images of their holy prophet Muhammad, even … Continue reading
Posted in Chris' Page, Media, Religion and theology, Society, Technology
Tagged censorship, email campaigns, islam, muhammad, muhammad cartoons, petitions, wikipedia
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Walls and Ladders
(photo: Sébastien Boymond-Pfahrer) Howard W. French notices that attempts to evade and promote evasion of China’s Great Firewall –which blocks vast regions of the web from the Chinese public– are taking off inside the PRC. Li Xieheng, who coded the … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged , censorship, China, Firefox, Flickr, gladder, Google, great firewall, James Joyce, Li Xieheng, prc, proxies, Ulysses
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Censors in the Subcontinent
GamePolitics has an interesting story about a plan in the Indian parliament to ban violent video games. A pity, as I was just reading in Businessweek about the fantastic growth of the Indian gaming market. But that’s a bit of … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged censorship, Domestic Politics, gaming, India, video games
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