Censorship is tantamount to destruction.
Madison Rising had a new arrangement of the Star Spangled Banner posted on Facebook - it was very popular. Lots of likes.
Then, popularity plummeted - because Facebook classed the video as "spam". They since have reversed that decision.
Video at the link.
Madison Rising web site.
Showing posts with label censorship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label censorship. Show all posts
Sunday, June 9, 2013
Thursday, January 5, 2012
India censoring social networking sites?
I'll have to keep an eye on my Facebook page...
Social websites including Google and Facebook have been ordered by an Indian court to remove all 'anti-religious' and 'anti-social' content within six weeks. On Saturday a Delhi Court ordered 22 social networking sites, including Yahoo and Microsoft, to wipe the objectionable and defamatory contents and file compliance reports by February 6, 2012. Additional Civil Judge Mukesh Kumar passed the order on a suit filed by Mufti Aijaz Arshad Qasmi seeking to restrain the websites from circulating objectionable and defamatory contents. |
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Enjoy it while you can
The Internet might be blacked out for all intents if this goes through...
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/12/30/will-google-amazon-and-facebook-blackout-net/#ixzz1i8St7B3b
Will Google, Amazon, and Facebook Black Out the Net?
Published December 30, 2011 | FoxNews.com
In the growing battle for the future of the Web, some of the biggest sites online -- Google, Facebook, and other tech stalwarts -- are considering a coordinated blackout of their sites, some of the web’s most popular destinations.
No Google searches. No Facebook updates. No Tweets. No Amazon.com shopping. Nothing.
The action would be a dramatic response to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a bill backed by the motion picture and recording industries that is intended to eliminate theft online once and for all. HR 3261 would require ISPs to block access to sites that infringe on copyrights -- but how exactly it does that has many up in arms. The creators of some of the web's biggest sites argue it could instead dramatically restrict law-abiding U.S. companies -- and reshape the web as we know it.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/12/30/will-google-amazon-and-facebook-blackout-net/#ixzz1i8St7B3b
Friday, December 30, 2011
Censorship?
Tell the truth, and get rewarded...
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Saturday, October 1, 2011
Free speech!
wwltv.com
Posted on September 28, 2011 at 2:29 PM
Updated Thursday, Sep 29 at 10:39 AM
Maya Rodriguez / Eyewitness News
NEW ORLEANS -- There are several political signs attracting all kinds of attention in one Uptown neighborhood.
On Wednesday, crowds gathered at the corner of Calhoun and Coralie streets, looking at several signs depicting President Barack Obama as either a dunce, a puppet or a crying baby in a diaper.
"It disrespects the nation -- and President Barack Obama represents our nation," said Skip Alexander, as he looked at one of the signs. "He represents everybody, not some people."
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And Osama bowing down to every tin-pot dictator DOES respect America?
He sure as hell does not represent me. At best, he represents what Americans get when Americans do not pay attention to their responsibilities and vote intelligently.
Go to the site and watch the video - especially the council member discussing how she will search for a "legal" means to get the signs removed, as soon as she can find a loophole that does not appear to violate the First Amendment.
Free speech on campus?
Not so much. Found this link through a post at Borepatch - FIRE
I believe there should be zero public funding for universities that oppress free speech or any other inalienable right, such as the right to self-defense.
Right here in Wisconsin:
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MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 28, 2011—The chancellor of University of Wisconsin-Stout (UWS) has declared that he will not defend faculty First Amendment rights from censorship. UWS censored theater professor James Miller's poster featuring a line from actor Nathan Fillion's character in Joss Whedon's television series Firefly. Campus police threatened Miller with criminal disorderly conduct charges, and he was reported to the "threat assessment team." After UWS censored his second poster, which stated, "Warning: Fascism," Miller came to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) for help. In the midst of FIRE's national campaign to restore faculty rights at UWS, the university is standing by its absurd claim that both posters were "implied threat[s] of violence."
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This crap has to stop.
I believe there should be zero public funding for universities that oppress free speech or any other inalienable right, such as the right to self-defense.
Right here in Wisconsin:
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UW-Stout Chancellor Doubles Down on Censorship of 'Firefly' and Anti-Fascism Posters
September 28, 2011
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 28, 2011—The chancellor of University of Wisconsin-Stout (UWS) has declared that he will not defend faculty First Amendment rights from censorship. UWS censored theater professor James Miller's poster featuring a line from actor Nathan Fillion's character in Joss Whedon's television series Firefly. Campus police threatened Miller with criminal disorderly conduct charges, and he was reported to the "threat assessment team." After UWS censored his second poster, which stated, "Warning: Fascism," Miller came to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) for help. In the midst of FIRE's national campaign to restore faculty rights at UWS, the university is standing by its absurd claim that both posters were "implied threat[s] of violence."
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This crap has to stop.
Friday, November 19, 2010
Feds could shut down your web site?!?
Not satisfied with suing single moms for hundreds of thousands of $$$ because their teen shared a music file, now this:
Web Censorship Bill Sails Through Senate Committee
- By Sam Gustin
- November 18, 2010 |
- 2:50 pm |
- Categories: Intellectual Property, Politics
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On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved a bill that would give the Attorney General the right to shut down websites with a court order if copyright infringement is deemed “central to the activity” of the site — regardless if the website has actually committed a crime. The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) is among the most draconian laws ever considered to combat digital piracy, and contains what some have called the “nuclear option,” which would essentially allow the Attorney General to turn suspected websites “off.”
COICA is the latest effort by Hollywood, the recording industry and the big media companies to stem the tidal wave of internet file sharing that has upended those industries and, they claim, cost them tens of billions of dollars over the last decade.
The content companies have tried suing college students. They’ve tried suing internet startups. Now they want the federal government to act as their private security agents, policing the internet for suspected pirates before making them walk the digital plank.
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