1 month ago
Linkorama : Voices of the Olympic Games - Athletes allowed to blog. I'm waiting for something political to happen
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2 month ago
Linkorama : Big Brother versus YouTube: let the Beijing Games commence - the Olympic genie is out of the bottle. The prospect of global scrutiny has actually increased repression as the authorities try to stamp out dissent. But digital technology is impossible to police
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2 month ago
Linkorama : 'Public' online spaces don't carry speech, rights - The governmental role that companies play online is taking on greater importance as their services — from online hangouts to virtual repositories of photos and video — become more central to public discourse around the world. It's a fallout of the Int
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Linkorama : Bloggers offer glimpse of uncensored Cuba - Yoani Sanchez writes the "Generacion Y" blog and gets more than a million hits a month, mostly from abroad — though she has begun to strike a chord in Cuba. On her site and others, anonymous Cubans offer stinging criticisms of their government
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6 month ago
nelson : Golden shield project - How the Great Firewall of China works, both technically and socially
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Linkorama : California Court Wipes Wikileaks.org Out of Existence - One of the most important web sites in recent months has been Wikileaks.org. Wikileaks has upset the Chinese government enough that they are attempting to censor it, as is the Thai military junta. Wikileaks is now under attack from a censorship effort by
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10 month ago
Linkorama : Banning Facebook - Firewalling against innovation, or something else? About half of the company’s customers already block access to social networking sites (25% block just MySpace, 6.3% block just Facebook, and 19.3% block both).
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11 month ago
deusx : Public radio station in NYC won't air "Howl" for fear of the FCC - Boing Boing - "The FCC's war on dirty words is having a chilling effect -- even WBAI Pacifica, the radical radio station in NYC, is scared of airing Allen Ginsberg's magnificent poem, Howl."
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11 month ago
Linkorama : Internet Blackout in Myanmar - The loss of Internet access in Myanmar has slowed the tide of photos and videos shared with the rest of the world but people outside of the troubled country continue to use new media sites and other technologies to protest military activity in the Southea
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12 month ago
Richard Rutter : Prince is a twat - “Prince feels very strongly that people should remember his concerts as they were, not as some grainy mobile phone footage” .
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13 month ago
adamrg : Photo Matt » Turkey Update - Adnan Oktar's lawyers explain, after a fact, why they believe that woldpress.com should be blocked in Turkey.
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16 month ago
WillPate : Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007
kaninka.net : Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007
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18 month ago
Linkorama : Call for a Blogger's Code of Conduct - Good guidelines for blogging literacy, but I wouldn't call it a code
jimray : Tim O'Reilly calls for a blogger's code of conduct - This will go over well...
Khoi Vinh : Tim O’Reilly: Call for a Blogger's Code of Conduct - Overview in today’s New York Times.
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18 month ago
Linkorama : Web Worker Daily ? Blog Archive The Two-Edged Sword of Web 2.0 ? - 46% regularly access Wikipedia during work hours -- and this is a bad thing? *%$%!
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19 month ago
Linkorama : Illinois Bill to Ban Social Software - at libraries. sounds like they need Politicopia
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20 month ago
Linkorama : Badware - Google doesn't think Socialtext is safe for you to view...
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20 month ago
Linkorama : Quatar Banned from Wikipedia - The country uses a single proxy censor and its IP address had to be blocked from editing due to vandalism
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23 month ago
cameron : YouTube Is Purging Copyrighted Clips - New York Times - Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Comedy Central declares YouTube a Colbert- and Daily Show-free zone.
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23 month ago
cameron : China Unblocks Wikipedia - I guess the value of the information contained therein is of greater value than its censorship
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25 month ago
wearehugh : Workbench: Help! Help! You're Being Repressed! - "After a decade of publishing on the web, I finally reached my fuck-that moment regarding censorship"
deusx : Workbench: Help! Help! You're Being Repressed! - "Telling someone you have a right to free speech on their site is like walking into their house and demanding a ham sandwich." Right on!
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26 month ago
plasticbag : Wikia is tracking the furore over the censoring of major weblog sites across India - This whole thing happened while I was on holiday, so I've missed a lot, but apparently geocities, typepad and Blogspot were affected by the ban...
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28 month ago
cameron : Fuck by Christopher Fairman - "This process of silence then enables small segments of the population to manipulate our rights under the guise of reflecting a greater community."
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28 month ago
deusx : heidi go seek ~ Kids and Web Filters - "I expect that when I have kids they'll know more than me too, only I won't be embarrassed by it, I'll encourage it."
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28 month ago
deusx : Kids outsmart Web filters | CNET News.com - "It's going to be the constant battle. No matter what you put up, kids are going to work around it"
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