Wikipedia Blackout Protest Has Plenty Of Company Mozilla Firefox join antiSOPA strike 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 Comment on crackdown shows cracks as Sen. Bennet Colorado backs away from legislation WordPress Latest Tech To Come Strongly Against SOPA/PIPA How Creates Architecture Much More Widespread 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

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. 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 >> 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. 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. 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 ... AD dubs censorship 'U-turn' a pre-electoral gimmick L-R: MCCA chief Adrian Mamo, Mario de Marco, and Caldon Mercieca. Welcoming the draft bill, AD however said the sudden shift in policy of the Nationalist party was not yet credible. Maine delegation opposes Internet anti-piracy legislation 'The Internet was built on openness and innovation, not censorship,' says Rep. Chellie Pingree.
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