Corporate Censorship
Police Who Illegally Broke Into Gizmodo Journalist’s House Deride Seized E-mails as “Juvenile”
Written By Matt Zimmerman The saga of the lost iPhone prototype — the 2010 incident at least, not the most recent one — has finally concluded. On Tuesday, Brian Hogan (who allegedly found the iPhone 4 prototype in a Redwood City bar) and Sage Wallower (who allegedly helped Hogan contact various web sites about the [...]
Occupy Wall Street Protests Spread Across Country
Jeff Swicord | Washington Liberal activists seem to be getting a boost from the spreading Occupy Wall Street protests in the United States. Their influence on American political dialogue is a work in progress. The demonstrations in New York against corporate greed and war have spread to Washington and other cities. The American political left [...]
#OccupyWallStreet Protest Joined by Labor, Community Groups
Written by Carolyn Weaver | New York City #OccupyWallStreet protestors were joined Wednesday by labor unions and community organizers demonstrating in New York against what they see as economic injustice. The “Occupy Wall Street” protesters, who have camped out in New York’s financial district since mid-September, were joined Wednesday by members of organized labor and [...]
#OccupyWallStreet Protest Movement Spreading Like Wildfire
What began in New York City more than two weeks ago and labeled #OccupyWallStreet has spawned similar demonstrations in several major U.S. cities, including Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and across the Midwest. Now the #OccupyWallStreet protest crowd will be getting some additional unexpected support. Army serviceman Ward Reilly posted the following on Facebook: I’m heading [...]
Apple Bans App That Shows Electronics’ Blood Trail
By Kristen Gwynne | Sourced from AlterNet Phone Story is a funny game with a not-so-funny message. By allowing players to assume the roles of technology’s manufacturers, it teaches players a lesson or two in the life-cycle of Apple products and the blood trail technology leaves behind. But Apple, apparently not too psyched on selling [...]
Pirate Bay Founder Fails To Appear At Court of Appeal Hearing
The mystery surrounding the whereabouts of Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm deepened today. After failing to turn up for 2010′s hearing to appeal his 2009 conviction for criminal copyright infringement, the court decided he would be dealt with at a later date. Today, however, Svartholm failed to appear at the Court of Appeal. At the [...]
Copyright Censorship versus Free Speech and Human Rights; Excessive Fines and the Eighth Amendment
Written by Stephan Kinsella In a recent Techdirt post, France: Copyright Is More Important Than Human Rights, Mike Masnick points out that France’s Nicolas Sarkozy, “a strong supporter of more draconian copyright laws, … has also been talking about the need to clamp down on free expression online.” And that he even declared that copyright [...]
September 11, 2001: Looking Back on Media Censorship Post 9/11
“They can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” ~ Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 Freedom of expression has been in focus following the September 11th attacks on the United States. All material in this section focus on the aftermath of the attacks. They do not [...]
Google Reports “Considerable Progress” In Fight Against Piracy
Last year, Google announced that it would begin censoring piracy-related terms from its Autocomplete and Instant services. Under intense pressure from United States music and movie companies, Google is continuing to take measures against piracy. Their latest report on the issue reveals that they have made “considerable progress” against online infringement and that they will [...]
BART Black-Out Leads to Hack-Back
It has not been a good month for municipal riders of the “Bay Area Rapid Transit” or BART system in San Francisco, California. On July 3, at the Civic Center station, a BART police official shot dead a man who appeared “wobbly” and possibly a danger to others. Locals immediately decried the shooting as massive [...]
Widespread Hijacking of Search Traffic in the United States
Technical Analysis By ICSI researchers Christian Kreibich, Nicholas Weaver and Vern Paxson, with Peter Eckersley. Earlier this year, two research papers reported the observation of strange phenomena in the Domain Name System (DNS) at several US ISPs. On these ISPs’ networks, some or all traffic to major search engines, including Bing, Yahoo! and (sometimes) Google, [...]
BPI Using Newzbin2 Ruling To Seek Much Broader Censorship Of Sites It Doesn’t Like In The UK
md1500 points us to news that will surprise absolutely no one. Apparently BPI (the UK version of the RIAA) is using the Newzbin2 ruling to seek broad censorship over a variety of websites it doesn’t like: The first likely step, which could be just days away, will be to ask ISPs to block some of [...]
