Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Google Goes Big With Its SOPA/PIPA Protests; Blacks Out Logo Google’s Home Page Will Lobby Against HollywoodSupported AntiPiracy Bills Editorial An online blackout to prevent a dark day Court rejects appeals in student speech cases White House Comes The Approach In Response To Online Petition Lamar Smith Of Touch Internet Still Thinks It's Just That Opposes SOPA Insane Entitlement EMI Sues Irish Gov't For Not Passing SOPALike Censorship Law How Creates Architecture Much More Widespread Supporters Pretend Statement Means We Can Rush Through Call Censor Bird Flu Studies Draws Fire RIAA Whines Won't Let It Program Google's Search Algorithm China Ramps Up Efforts As US Congress Gives Them Perfect Cover Reddit Plans Black Site A Day Protest State Dept Don't Int

Please Censor The Web America, The Rest Of Us Can't Wait You might notice many of your favorite websites look different today. Wikipedia is down. Wordpress is dark. TechCrunch has adjusted it's homepage logo to look even weirder than usual. So what's the big deal? Right now in Washington D.C., Congress is considering two bills that would censor the web and impose burdensome regulations on American businesses. Over here on the European version of ... Censor snips gory 'Ghost' scenes, director cries foul By Subhash K. Jha, Mumbai, Jan 9: The on-release Shiney Ahuja starrer "Ghost" has received full censorial treatment - its excessive gore-content prompted the board to make severe cuts. Director Puja Jatinder Bedi says that some of the cuts have been unjustified. Censor snips gory scenes from Shiney's 'Ghost' Director Puja Jatinder Bedi says that some of the cuts have been unjustified. Google Wants You To Petition Congress Over SOPA / PIPA As previously reported, Google has gone with a blacked out logo for SOPA Blackout Day (in case you haven't visited Google yet today to see for yourself). The company put up a blog post titled "Don't censor the web." The … Call to Censor Bird Flu Studies Draws Fire "I don't like to scare people," says microbiologist Paul Keim. "But the worst-case scenarios here are just enormous." [More] Blog: SOPA would censor us, not websites Rodney Brown, MHT's Managing Editor–News: Today is the SOPA Blackout protest day on the web — when giant, high-traffic sites show how overreaching the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act are by censoring themselves for a day. The problem is, most of them don't show what the real danger of these Acts, as currently written, are. Greenpeace and Google hit back vs. SOPA 'censorship' Greenpeace and Google have thrown their hats in the ring in the fight against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect-IP Act (PIPA), two pending US bills that both companies say threaten to 'censor the Internet.' Sometimes People Should Censor Themselves Online - Yes Casey Anthony, I'm Talking to You So the moment I finish a long screed lambasting the entertainment industry for censorship I hear the news: there is a Casey Anthony video on the internet! Don't censor life-saving science Controlling who is allowed access to information about mutations in the H5N1 bird flu virus is unacceptable, says Peter Palese. Google Blackens Its Logo To Protest SOPA/PIPA, While Bing & Yahoo Carry On As Usual As promised earlier , Google has voiced its opposition to two bills currently being discussed in Congress that the company says — and countless critics around the world agree — would censor the web and hurt U.S. businesses.
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