Thursday, January 19, 2012

Wikipedia Blackout Protest Has Plenty Of Company Column Author's article an attempt at censorship Google protest US antipiracy proposals Websites go dark to SOPA PIPA bills Reddit's Admirable but and Facebook Must Follow The List Internet Censoring Countries MPAA Thinks Provide A Good Example For Finally Acknowledges Existence of 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 Mozilla Firefox join antiSOPA strike Raging Grannies ICE Propaganda Film Pats Itself On Back Web; Promises China Ramps Up Online Efforts As Congress 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...

Is Screening the Answer to Censorship Internationally? Censorship is not a new topic; it has been around in many forms for a long, long time and it looks like it is not going anywhere any time soon. Now it seems more than ever before in the (relatively) short history of the internet has there been so much concern for censorship. With Google [...] Follow SEJ on Twitter @sejournal 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. 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. What Internet censorship looks like around the world Dozens of American Web sites went dark today in protest against the House's Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Senate's Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA), which critics believe would kill freedom of expression and allow the government to censor the Web. Read full article >> 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. Bloggers in China sound off on SOPA blackout Watching from China, where web censorship is practically a national hallmark, some can't help but smirk and crack jokes about the controversy raging over Internet freedom in the U.S. "Now the U.S. government is copying us and starting to build... 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 ... Rebecca MacKinnon On Internet Censorship And How To Resist It Illustration by David Cowles There's the law of the land, but what about cyberspace? Online censorship expert Rebecca MacKinnon talks shop about her new book, Consent of the Networked, which hits shelves January 31. Q: Why Consent of the Networked? Until recently, we've looked at politics and power as something that happens in the physical world; we figured out governance by consent with the ...
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References:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/01/wikipedia-blackout-pipa-sopa-protest-google/
http://news.communitypress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/C2/20120119/VAV02/301190002/
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://gawker.com/5873886/facebook-finally-acknowledges-existence-of-unfortunately+named-town-of-effin
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111230/10300517237/lamar-smith-out-touch-with-internet-still-thinks-its-just-google-that-opposes-sopa.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/20111228/10302017214/heritage-foundation-says-sopa-threatens-free-speech.shtml
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111223/03470117178/harvard-researchers-explain-that-sopa-supporters-are-misusing-their-research-to-support-sopa.shtml
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