Art Censorship
Art Censorship: Dark Musings #29 – Yes, Comics Are Still for Kids
The following article was written by Andrew Zar, owner of DarkBrain Comics. DarkBrain is a massive comic project that has already produced over 800 pages of content in full color and with music and voice-over narration. Re-published with permission of Andrew Zar. Copyright© 2012, DarkBrain, LLC, All Rights Reserved. Original article appeared on Andrew’s blog, [...]
Censorship
Censorship 2012: New Year’s Resolution: Full Disk Encryption on Every Computer You Own
| By Seth Schoen | Sourced from EFF.org (Creative Commons License) | The New Year is upon us, and you might be partaking in the tradition of making a resolution for the coming year. This year, why not make a resolution to protect your data privacy with one of the most powerful tools available? Commit to full disk [...]
- Censorship: 2011 in Review – Four Cases That Promoted Transparency in 2011
- Censorship: 2011 in Review – Patents Misused to Stifle Innovation
- Burma Celebrates Independence Amid Criticism
- Censorship 2011: A Year That Began and Ended Anonymously
- Tunisia: Censorship and Freedom of Speech in the Year That Was
Corporate Censorship
Censorship in America: ‘Word on Street’ Impacted Language in 2011
Global grassroots movements coin new words, phrases. Occupy Wall Street protesters at Three World Financial Center in New York. While 2011 is over, some of the words that came to define the past year are still very much with us, and may be for years to come. Occupy Grant Barrett, vice president of the American [...]
- SOPA / PIPA Take a Beating From Activist Groups and YOU!
- Internet Censorship: Google Now Censors The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, 4Shared and More
- Occupy the Banks Victory: Over $50 Million Withdrawn From Big Banks
- Has Facebook Faded? Part Two: Privacy and Censorship
- Has Facebook Faded? Part One: Privacy & Censorship
Internet Censorship
Censorship: 2011 in Review – Internet Freedom in the Wake of the Arab Spring
| By Jillian C. York | Sourced from EFF.org (Creative Commons License) | As the year draws to a close, EFF is looking back at the major trends influencing digital rights in 2011 and discussing where we are in the fight for a free expression, innovation, fair use, and privacy. For several years, discussions about global Internet [...]
- Internet Censorship: China Clamps Down on Microblogs
- Internet Censorship: Chinese Netizens Jailed for Wedding Video
- Who Will Be The First Politician To Be GoDaddy’d?
- Internet Censorship: Lamar Smith Still Thinks It’s Just Google That Opposes SOPA / PIPA
- Censorship: 2011 in Review – Search Incident to Arrest and Your Cell Phone
Media Censorship
Censorship in America: Hate Speech Overview
Hate speech is, outside the law, any communication that disparages a person or a group on the basis of some characteristic such as race, color, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, or other characteristic. In law, hate speech is any speech, gesture or conduct, writing, or display which is forbidden because it may incite [...]
Music Censorship
Music Censorship: North Korea Crackdown on ‘Thumb Drives’
North Koreans find new ways to access illicit South Korean pop culture. North Korean authorities are stepping up a crackdown on portable media devices in an attempt to block the spread of “Korean Wave” culture from the South, North Korean sources say. With cell phones and video players becoming more popular in the North, South [...]
Political Censorship
Political Censorship: Britain to Maintain Sanctions Until Burma Frees Political Prisoners
British Foreign Secretary William Hague, on a visit to Burma, says European Union economic sanctions will not change until authorities release all political prisoners. The top British diplomat made the comments after holding separate meetings with democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma’s military-backed leaders. Hague held talks Friday morning with Burma’s opposition and [...]
Religious Censorship
Religious Censorship: Contraceptive Coverage – Who’s Religious Freedom Is It?
By Amanda Marcotte Frances Kissling, writing for RH Reality Check, made excellent points about why it’s not up to President Obama to determine which definition of “Catholic” is more valid than another by writing health care regulations around what the Catholic bishops claim to be the final authority on what Catholics believe while ignoring what [...]
- Bad Faith: The Catholic Hierarchy’s Pointless Campaign Against LGBT Rights
- ONI Releases New Report on Faith-Based Censorship
- The Scary Religious Ideology Behind Michele Bachmann’s Anti-Gay Crusade
- Freedom Isn’t Free – And It Turns Ugly At Times
- Scopes “Monkey Trial”: Historic Religious Censorship Case
More Articles
Iran to Start Uranium Enrichment at Underground Site This Month
Satellite image shows a facility under construction inside a mountain located about 20 miles (32 kilometers) north northeast of Qom, Iran. A senior Iranian official says Iran will launch a second uranium enrichment facility later this month at an underground site that is well protected from potential air strikes by nations opposed to the Iranian [...]
Human Rights: U.S. Accused of Abusing Afghan Prisoners
A commission set up by Afghan President Hamid Karzai is making serious accusations against a U.S.-run prison. In a report released to the media Saturday, the commission accused the United States of abusing and torturing Afghans held at a prison neat Bagram air base, north of the capital of Kabul. The report contains few details [...]
Human Rights: Tunisia Tense Ahead of Revolution Anniversary
An elderly man is in serious condition after setting himself on fire in southern Tunisia this week – in an apparent attempt to draw attention to the dire economic situation in the North African country. The act speaks to simmering tensions days ahead of the one year anniversary of Tunisia’s revolution that launched the so-called [...]
Human Rights: Prosecution Demands Death Penalty for Egypt’s Mubarak
Prosecutors in the trial of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak say they will seek the death penalty for him and at least five security officials. Mubarak faces a variety of charges over corruption and involvement in the deaths of hundreds of anti-government protesters during last year’s uprising that forced him from power. The former [...]
Free Speech: Nigerians Protest End to Fuel Subsidy
Protesters in Nigeria marched against a government decision to end a popular consumer fuel subsidy, which has sent prices soaring in the oil-rich nation. Demonstrators in Lagos Tuesday chanted as they carried banners and signs critical of President Goodluck Jonathan. Some protesters went to gas stations to disrupt business. Jonathan has said ending the $7.5 [...]
Censorship: 2011 in Review – Developments in ACTA
| By Maira Sutton | Sourced from eff.org (Creative Commons) As the year draws to a close, EFF is looking back at the major trends influencing digital rights in 2011 and discussing where we are in the fight for a free expression, innovation, fair use, and privacy. While Internet blacklist bills exploded into the domestic U.S. [...]
Censorship: 2011 in Review – Ever-Clearer Vulnerabilities in Certificate Authority System
| By Dan Auerbach | Sourced from EFF.org (Creative Commons License) | As the year draws to a close, EFF is looking back at the major trends influencing digital rights in 2011 and discussing where we are in the fight for a free expression, innovation, fair use, and privacy. At EFF we are big fans of [...]
Censorship: 2011 in Review – Defending Location Privacy in Courts and Congress
| By Kevin Bankston | Sourced from EFF.org (Creative Commons License) | As the year draws to a close, EFF is looking back at the major trends influencing digital rights in 2011 and discussing where we are in the fight for a free expression, innovation, fair use, and privacy. 2010 was very eventful when it came [...]
Censorship: 2011 in Review – Nymwars
| By Kevin Bankston | Sourced from EFF.org (Creative Commons License) | As the year draws to a close, EFF is looking back at the major trends influencing digital rights in 2011 and discussing where we are in the fight for a free expression, innovation, fair use, and privacy. This year, Google launched its social networking [...]
Internet Censorship: State of the Arms Race Between Repressive Governments and Anti-Censorship Tor Technology
| Sourced from boingboing (Creative Commons) | By Cory Doctorow | Wednesday night’s Chaos Computer Congress (28C3) presentation from Jacob Applebaum and Roger Dingledine on the state of the arms race between the Tor anti-censorship/surveillance technology and the world’s repressive governments was by turns depressing and inspiring. Dingledine and Applebaum have unique insights into the workings [...]
