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Australian Prime Minister Denounces Photo
Diary of a Nudist | 21 hours ago by nudiarist
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has weighed in on the photo of the nude 6 year-old girl on the cover of Art Monthly Australia. "How can anyone assume that a little child of six years old, eight, 10, 12, somehow is able to make that decision for read more
Serbian Lesbians Speak at S.F. Dyke March
Lavender Newswire | July 5th 2008 by J Rogers
The San Francisco Dyke March site has the transcripts of speeches given last Saturday by two lesbians from Serbia — both well worth the full read: Tijana Popivoda …Thank you for your persistence in protesting on the streets for so many ye read more
McCain threatens bombing China over U.S. flag sales
Scholars and Rogues | July 5th 2008 by Scholars and Rogues
On the heels of news that millions of American flags are actually imported from China, Republican presidential nominee John McCain addressed the issue this Fourth of July morning outside a flag factory in Fredericksburg, Virginia. "All options must read more
Welcome Decisions by the Canadian Human Rights Commission... With…
Persecuted Church Weblog | July 5th 2008 by glenn
In the News
Xingu | July 4th 2008
An Indiana teacher who used a much lauded bestseller, The Freedom Writers Diary,to try to inspire under-performing high-school students has been suspended from her job without pay for 18 months.The effective book ban by the school authorities in Perr read more
Age of Censorship!
Classy Gamer | July 4th 2008 by Abriael
Age of Censorship Inserito originariamente da Abriael Looks like Funcom's overzaelous moderation on the Age of Conan forums is beginning to border on clear cut censorship of any possible criticism, even in the form of concern by one or more p read more
Independence Day: Let Us Remember Who We Are
Mrs Silence Dogood | July 4th 2008 by Mrs. Silence Dogood
Kucinich's fourth of July impeachment message.read more | digg story read more
Fallout 3 to be Banned in Australia?
GamePolitics | July 4th 2008
GameSpot is reporting that hugely-anticipated role playing title Fallout 3 may be subjected to the Australian government's notorious ban hammer.While GameSpot is careful to add that the Fallout 3 ban is still a rumor at this point, it point read more
Bloggers Write Text Backwards to Bypass Web Filters in China
Digital Inspiration | July 4th 2008
Bloggers and journalists in China are using a novel approach to bypass Internet filters in their country – they write backwards or from right to left. The content therefore remains readable by human beings but defeats the web filtering software. read more
links for 2008-07-04
Chip's Quips | July 4th 2008 by Sterling Camden
Darwin Awards: 2008 Darwin Awards More entertaining examples of natural selection in action. Thanks, Joseph. (tags: naturalselection humor darwinawards) Net-60 Days - iBLOGthere4iM Lately, when someone gets even close to 90 days, I change my policy read more
ICT Minister and police want to arrest “illegal websites operat…
Thai Crisis | July 3rd 2008 by ThaiCrisis
A very nice Lunacy Of the Day. Consider this : Minister of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Man Pattanotai yesterday handed over a list of illegal websites including pornographic sites, sites violating copyright laws, gambling sites and read more
Army and police plan another coup against GMA
The Black Book | July 3rd 2008
Once more the army and the police are reportedly preparing to overthrow GMA, though the president claims that the threat level is minimal. Of course this is the line that she is feeding the press as she illegally arrested five indi read more
PBS and NBC’s symbiotic sins of omission
Scholars and Rogues | July 3rd 2008 by Scholars and Rogues
On Tuesday night, NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams and Newshour with Jim Lehrer presented two telling examples of how omitting information shapes public perception with regard to civilian casualties. read more
PBS and NBC's Symbiotic Sins of Omission
at-Largely | July 3rd 2008 by Larisa Alexandrovna
On Tuesday night, NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams and Newshour with Jim Lehrer presented two telling examples of how omitting information shapes public perception with regard to civilian casualties. read more
A Fourth of July Quotabull
Scholars and Rogues | July 3rd 2008 by Scholars and Rogues
The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He h read more
USA Censorship and Books
BiblioHistoria | July 3rd 2008 by BiblioHistoria
I apologise for the harsh title of this post but facts are facts. Last year I read and reviewed a book called the Freedom Writers Diary, which was also made into a movie starring Hilary Swank. It was an excellent book written by Asian, Caucasian, Lat read more
YouTube / Viacom lawsuit poses a threat to more than just civil l…
Scholars and Rogues | July 3rd 2008 by Scholars and Rogues
In 2004, Yahoo turned over user information to the Chinese government that was used to track down a dissident journalist, Shi Tao, and send him to a labour camp. It was the moment that the Internet knew sin. Now, Judge Louis Stanton has decided to f read more
Google Believed to be Censoring Anti-Obama Web Sites
The Interested American | July 3rd 2008
Bloggers who have been critical of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, a senator from Illinois, are expressing concerns they are facing an organized effort to shut down their message, possibly with help from Google's Blogspot.co read more
Horror! Iran mulls death penalty for Internet crimes
MidEast Youth | July 3rd 2008
A very dangerous bill was proposed in Iran according to the Khaleej Times which you should all be alert about: TEHERAN - Iran’s parliament is set to debate a draft bill which could see the death penalty used for those deemed to promote corrupt read more
The FCC's Flawed Complaint Process
Diary of a Nudist | July 3rd 2008 by nudiarist
Exposed: ...activist decency groups encourage thousands of people to complain to the FCC about programs that they may not have seen themselves. "In many instances, these prepackaged complaints are sent to each of the five Commissioners and to other F read more
The Porn Bakery
Tatiana von Tauber | July 3rd 2008 by Tatiana von Tauber
Pornography is like dessert. Some people prefer very rich decadent chocolate cake while others prefer a light French pastry with fruit topping. Some will stand by their tastes and never deviate. Why should they? They found what they liked and s read more
Sesame Street Censorship
Steven Humour | July 3rd 2008 by Steven
If you didn’t know better you’d think Elmo and the rest of the Sesame Street gang were actually saying some bleep worthy words. Very funny! This article was originally posted on: Steven Humour Sesame Street Censorship read more
Are people of Wenn’an mafia?
Chinese in English | July 2nd 2008 by Aw Guo
Have you guys ever heard of mass incident happened in China? I haven’t. On Joooun 29th, 10,000 local people in Wann’an county gathered in front of public security bureau office building and set it on fire. However, the mass’s outrag read more
Boing Boing And Violet Blue
Memoirs on a Rainy Day | July 2nd 2008 by range
Valleywag sheds more mystery into the break-up between Boing Boing and Violet Blue. Valleywag is making it sound like a broken up love a triangle. It’s possible, but how could it the other Boingers be convinced to remove Blue from their archive read more
Germany bans Kurdish TV despite decisions in Denmark that the sta…
MidEast Youth | July 2nd 2008
The Danish-based television broadcaster, Roj-TV, was recently banned in Germany after officials declared that they believe the station shows support for the conflict between the Turkish military and Kurdish rebels in Turkey. The German Interior Min read more
Forget Wikipedia! Now you’re blocking Facebook!?!
Eye of Modok | July 2nd 2008
Chinese language version of Facebook A little more than a week after the launch of the simplified Chinese Facebook site, users all across China, including yours truly, are reporting that they are unable to access Facebook. Having had to endure the G read more
BANNED ROYAL PORTRAIT ON THE WEB
CollectValue Gazette | July 2nd 2008 by Jacques Chapon
Censorship is alive and well and living in Belgium, where the authorities have banned an exhibition portrait of the late King and Queen because it was "too shocking" to view. But the sensational painting by a publicity-shy woman artist is now on disp read more
Half of Americans Want Internet Censorship
The Interested American | July 2nd 2008
This should make Nanzi Pelosi happy. She could clamp the so-called "Fairness Doctrine" down on the web. No more Drudge, Real Clear Politics, World Net Daily, News Max, etc.Should the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulate the Internet like read more
Boing Boing Responds To Violet Blue
Memoirs on a Rainy Day | July 2nd 2008 by range
Boing Boing finally responds to Violet Blue… Speaking for all the Boingers– Boing Boing has been caught in the middle of a real internet shitstorm and pile-on over the last few days. A blogger named Violet Blue noticed that we unpublished read more
Facebook blocked, but Wkipedia Chinese version is now available i…
Chinese in English | July 2nd 2008 by Aw Guo
While Facebook’s finally crashed inside China, the zh dot Wikipedia dot com comes back. It’s really ridiculous and I am puzzled. As for as I know, the Wikipedia is much more “sensitive” and “harmful” than Facebook read more
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