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Controversial TED Talk of the Day


“Big ideas” conference TED came under fire today for apparently censoring a TED talk about income inequality and tax policy by Seattle-based venture capitalist Nick Hanauer, but TED founder Chris Anderson is saying that’s n...
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Censorship Cat



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Iranian Supreme Leader's Antifiltering Fatwa Filtered for Mentioning "Antifiltering" [Iran]





The Iranian government's plan to install a Great Firewall like China's certainly didn't take long to backfire. According to reports, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's fatwa against antifiltering tool...
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Facebook, Google Caught Up In Indian Courts
A criminal case in India involving Facebook and Google is tangled up in that country’s court system, as the Delhi High Court adjourned a petition for dismissal by the two Internet companies until Aug. 7, despite the trial’s scheduled start date in the low...
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The Dutch Have the Weirdest Google Maps Censorship [Censorship]





The Netherlands have given the world so much: pizza, sex tourism, The Hague, Rembrandt, Vermeer—and let's not Aelbert Cuyp. In the tradition of the last three, the Dutch now serve up the most artisti...
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Iran Isn't Shutting Down the Internet In August, Merely Building a New One Next March [Censorship]





Iran has issued a strongly worded statement denying reports from yesterday that the country planned to shut itself off from the rest of the Internet. Quite the contrary—Iran is just building its own,...
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Iran Hopes to Be Rid of Meddlesome Internet by August [Censorship]





Iran has had it up to here with the Internet—Google's easy access to information, iTunes' funneling in of Western Media, and don't even get them started on Stuxnet—all totally the Internet's fa...
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Trolling Will Soon Be Illegal in Arizona [Censorship]





One of the Internet's basic tenets—the right to be as much of a myopic, infantile asshat as humanly possible—is currently under attack in Arizona. A sweeping update to the state's telecommunica...
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Pakistan reportedly withdraws Web censorship plans, but its pursuit of restrictions may not be over
Authorities in Pakistan caused controversy worldwide last week, when details of its plans to implement a system of censorship were revealed. An tender for the project, aimed at restricting access to more than 50 million URLs in Pakistan, was pitched to a ...
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Fictional Interlude: Penelope
Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles first appeared as a series of short stories published in the late 1940s; in the fictional “future history” depicted therein American economic strength and technological prowess grew rapidly in the second half of the c...
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Google would like to remind us that the company supports “free expression”, up to a point
Freedom of expression is a massive topic of discussion, especially on the Internet. At what point can a company that provides communication tools step in and remove or censor something? It’s a fine line and earlier this year Twitter discussed that...
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Brazil Is Suing Twitter for Tweeting DUI Checkpoints [Censorship]





Twitter has caught some flack in other countries for giving accounts free reign on what they can tweet. Twitter responded that it'll adjust its policy to include the ability to censor tweets if a country d...
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Apple Censors: Cosmo's Kinky Sex For 12-Year-Olds Is Good, Penis Science For 12-Year-Olds Is Bad [Apple]





Compare these two covers. On the left, Spanish science magazine Muy Interesante has an article titled "Myths and Truths About the Penis". On the right, your typical Cosmopolitan smut, from "50 Kinky Sex Mo...
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We’re Not Done Yet
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.  -  Charles Caleb Colton
What, you thought we were finished with updates for the month?  I’m getting so many of these now I’ll soon be changing the way I handle them; look for a new feat...
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Reporters Without Borders urges Twitter to reverse its decision to censor tweets
Yesterday, Twitter announced that it would be censoring tweets moving forward, based on laws where the tweet originated from.
Along with the hashtag streams of #TwitterCensored and #TwitterBlackout, which are comprised of tweets outside of the United Stat...
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Dear Politicians, Stop Supporting Laws You Don't Even Understand [Internet]





Another bill which would have violated the civil liberties of many—Hawaii's H.B. 2288 Internet Dossier bill—has been pulled off the table following public outrage. And for good reason; the law ...
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Scapegoats
I’d call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.  -  Woody Allen, What’s Up, Tiger Lily?
Humans are obsessed with assigning blame.  To a degree, this is understandable; when something bad happens, we want to know wh...
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Twitter Will Censor Your Tweets If a Country Tells It To [Censorship]





In a slight change in policy, Twitter has enabled the ability "to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country—while keeping it available in the rest of the world." Basically, if a tw...
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The Full Valenti: Dodd Trades His Olive Branch to Tech for a Howitzer, After SOPA/PIPA Gets Delayed

Poor Chris Dodd — he just got the top media lobbying job in Washington, D.C., at the very moment that the strong-arming-pols, scare-the-children, Jack Valenti era in media lobbying is now decidedly over.
It’s obviously a very confusing time f...
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Scientists Will Halt Research on Avian Flu That Could Kill Half the World's Humans—for Two Months [Science]





The scientists who created an airborne and extremely contagious strain of bird flu say they are temporarily halting their research for 60 days. Oh good! Looks like we don't have to be cripplingly terrifie...
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SOPA and PIPA – You Shall Not Pass
We’re protesting SOPA and PIPA today with banners placed on all our properties.Please join us by visiting American Censorship and adding your voice to those protesting against legislation that could censor the internet and could results in sites lik...
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The One Wikipedia Page You Can Actually Read Today [Sopa Protest]





The SOPA Blackout may be spreading across the internet today, which includes Wikipedia. But as Giz comrade Mark Wilson points out, there's one Wiki entry you can actually navigate to: the Stop Online Pirac...
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Senator Schumer’s reps call claim of Internet censorship support ‘absurd’
Today, we wrote about a phone call made by New York entrepeneur Amanda Peyton due to her concerns about the proposed PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). She called the office of her local Senator, Chuck Schumer and asked questions about why Schumer was supporting PIP...
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Reddit is Having a Blackout on 18 January in Protest Against SOPA [Internet]





The web's been grumbling and muttering about SOPA for a while now, but we've not really seen any big gestures made. That's changing: Reddit admins have announced a blackout to protest against the act. M...
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Belarus Is Now Home to the Internet's Most Insane Law [Internet]





Belarus: small. Proud. Kvass-drinking. A long history of dubious human rights and piddling dictatorship. And now, bound to a law that makes it illegal to browse foreign websites. Поздравляю! More &...
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GoDaddy Dickheads May Be Delaying Domain Transfers On Purpose [StopSOPA]





GoDaddy may claim to be neutral about SOPA, the shameful censorship law cheered by a bunch of greedy copyright corpocrooks, but that isn't stopping thousands of people from leaving their dreadful service. ...
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FAIL Nation: Automatic Censorship FAIL




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Brave GoDaddy CEO Says He's Neither For Nor Against SOPA [Sopa]





GoDaddy CEO Warren Adelman has had his job for a week. Not exactly a great week to start! But I chatted with the guy for his take on the company's SOPA surrender. Is he against SOPA? No. More &raqu...
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As If You Needed Another Reason to Hate F*cking GoDaddy [Sopa]





GoDaddy, proud supporter of internet censorship bill SOPA, has responded to those questioning its motives. Surprise! They're bullshit, just like the rest of the company. More »





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Sign This SOPA Petition to Get Obama's Attention [Sopa]





SOPA is terrible—it threatens the existence of the internet we know and love. You can call one of the dozens of companies backing it and give them a piece of your mind. Or, try the White House. Mo...
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Presented Without Comment: Every Single Company Supporting SOPA, the Awful Internet Censorship Law [Sopa]





Who's officially on the record backing what could be the worst thing to ever happen to the internet? All of these companies listed below. Don't take our word for it—this list comes straight from Cong...
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How to Sidestep this SOPA Nonsense Entirely [Sopa]





Dislike this proposed SOPA legislation? Yeah, me too. But just because a few legislators are trying to make our internet lives more terrible doesn't mean we can't best them with a simple Firefox add-on. En...
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Don't Break the Internet [Internet]





Two bills now pending in Congress-the PROTECT IP Act of 2011 (Protect IP) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House-represent the latest legislative attempts to address a serious glo...
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Shutup, Twitter Isn't Censoring Your Dumb Trends [Twitter]





So brilliant writer and Iraq War apologist Christopher Hitchens died last night. Almost immediately, #GodIsNotGreat started trending on Twitter. It's the title of one of Hitchens' books, of course, but it ...
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Universal Claims a Private Deal With Google Lets It Censor Videos It Doesn't Own [Censorship]





We reported that Universal had seemingly inappropriately tried to pull the Mega Song video from YouTube. Now, in a leaked court filing, it claims to have a deal with Google that allows it to censor any vi...
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MegaUpload Goes Through with Record Label Lawsuit Over Mega Song Censorship [File Sharing]





Remember that support video for MegaUpload with all the A-List stars? It's been yanked from the Internet because according to Universal's DMCA request, New Zealand artist Meg Gin Wigmore didn't consent to ...
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It Just Got Incredibly Easy to Tell Congress That SOPA Sucks [Sopa]





I'll fess up. Sometimes there are issues I want to support, but I'm too lazy to look up my congress person's phone number and call him. Or her? I don't know, like I said, I'm lazy. More »
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Meta: Universal Music Censors News Story About Its Censorship of Megaupload [Censorship]





Universal Music's legal department sure has been busy! Late last week UMG had a song defending Megaupload removed from YouTube on a false copyright claim. Then on Monday, the company had a news report remo...
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CENSORSHIP


CENSORSHIP
done amazingly well, actually.
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Apple's Pro-Censorship Software Alliance Backs Down [Piracy]





The Business Software Association, which includes tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, and Intel, has reversed its stance on the controversial (and awful!) Stop Online Piracy Act: now it doesn't like it. Goo...
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Here's Every Single Word You're Not Allowed to Text in Pakistan [Censorship]





The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority doesn't want Pakistanis to be able to text the following words to each other, in fear that they will become rapists and murderers, or something. So it banned them. ...
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Apple, Microsoft, and the 27 Other Tech Giants Who Support the Awful Internet Censorship Bill [Piracy]






The Next Web's Alex Wilhelm noticed something interesting—after trying to get a comment from Microsoft over the fascist Stop Online Piracy Act, he received silence. So he dug around and found Micros...
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All About SOPA, the Bill That Wants to Cripple Your Internet [Video]






SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act, is another one of those bills that sounds like it's going to do something mildly positive but, in reality, has serious potential to negatively change the internet as ...
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What Governments Worldwide Want Google to Take Down [Google]






Google published its biannual Transparency Report yesterday showing US Law Enforcement and courts requested the removal of 717 items from Google's servers—primarily Youtube videos depicting acts of ...
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Egyptian sentenced to 3 years in prison for Facebook posts
Ayman Yousef Mansour has become the second Egyptian, since the fall of former president Hosni Mubarak, to be sentenced to 3 years in jail for online self-expression.
Unlike Maikel Nabil whose three year sentence was for a blog post deemed insulting to the...
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BUT BUT BUT…


BUT BUT BUT…
I wanted to know what the worst thing about censorship is…
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Censorship Decision FAIL

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Facebook Forcing Drug Companies to Allow Pill Talk [Facebook]






Corporations love Facebook, because it's free advertising. Simple! But when you're a company that sells a product that changes the brains of your customers, you might be worried when they start to chat on...
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Cockmuncher, Cyberfuc, Knobjockey, and the 473 Other Words on Google's Banned List [Google]






Google's What Do You Love site is a cute little way to both show off their web-scouring muscles and dazzle you with delicious info—about things you love! But what if you love semen, fannyflaps, or d...
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The other shoe drops: it’s technically possible for Australia’s NBN Co to censor the Internet.
For the life of Australia’s National Broadband Network project, the official line has been that it’s not technically possible for NBN Co to filter the Internet, as a wholesaler of “layer two” Internet services.
The insistence that ...
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