Corporate Censorship
Censorship: 2011 in Review – Four Cases That Promoted Transparency in 2011
| By Jennifer Lynch and Mark Rumold | 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. 2011 was an important year [...]
Censorship: 2011 in Review – Patents Misused to Stifle Innovation
| By Julie Samuels | 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. 2011 saw what many had written off as [...]
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!
We’re hearing it from Senate offices, and we’re hearing it from people who’ve been bombarding Washington with calls: The phones in the Capitol have been ringing off the hooks this week. It’s having an impact: just days ago Hollywood’s head lobbyist was bragging about the dozens of Senate cosponsors of the legislation, but now he [...]
Internet Censorship: Google Now Censors The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, 4Shared and More
Google has expanded its search blacklist to include many of the top file-sharing sites on the Internet, including The Pirate Bay. The changes were quietly processed and appear to be broader than previous additions. Google’s blacklist prevents the names of sites appearing in their Instant and Autocomplete search services, while the pages themselves remain indexed. [...]
Occupy the Banks Victory: Over $50 Million Withdrawn From Big Banks
Sourced from AlterNet / By Sarah Jaffe Around the country, in groups and individually, Americans voted with their dollars this week to move away from the banks that caused the economic crisis. Around the country this week, people fed up with the power and influence of the big banks (not to mention their bailouts and [...]
Has Facebook Faded? Part Two: Privacy and Censorship
Has Facebook Become Everyone’s Creepy Friend? We’re taking a two-part look at the dual challenges facing social networking giant Facebook: increased complexity and decreased privacy. In part one, we explored whether the constant addition of new features is complicating the user experience, making it less fun and more work. Today, we look at criticisms that [...]
Has Facebook Faded? Part One: Privacy & Censorship
Part One: Is Facebook’s Size Its Strength, or Vulnerability? We’re taking a two-part look at the dual challenges facing social networking giant Facebook: increased complexity and decreased privacy. First, we explore whether the constant addition of new features is complicating the user experience, making it less fun and more work. In our second report, we’ll [...]
Internet Censorship: SOPA: Hollywood Finally Gets A Chance to Break the Internet
Here’s the first installment of our closer review of the massive piece of job-killing Internet regulation that is the Stop Online Piracy Act. We’ll start with how it could impact Twitter, Tumblr, and the next innovative social network, cloud computing, or web hosting service that some smart kid is designing in her garage right now. [...]
Internet Censorship: S.978 Could Put Bieber in Jail
If there’s one bill in Congress that pits people of all political stripes against big corporations and the politicians they fund, S.978 is it. The word around the campfire is that the bill is set to be introduced in The House of Representatives this Wednesday (October 26, 2011). The bill would make web streaming of [...]
Internet Censorship: Wikileaks Suspends Publishing to Fight Financial Blockade
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has announced the organization is suspending the publishing of secret documents in order to concentrate on fundraising to ensure its future survival. At a news conference in London, Assange said a financial blockade by American companies such as Visa, Mastercard and PayPal means WikiLeaks will have to aggressively focus on raising [...]
How Bank of America Covered Up Fraud by Silencing Whistleblowers
IWatch News / By Michael Hudson Countrywide made life hard for an internal investigator, and a court ruled that when BofA took over, she was illegally fired in retaliation. In the summer of 2007, a team of corporate investigators sifted through mounds of paper pulled from shred bins at Countrywide Financial Corp. mortgage shops in [...]
