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 [...]
Political Censorship: China Faces Ongoing Tension in Restive Xinjiang
Members of the Uyghur ethnic minority walk past a Muslim mosque near the Erduoqiao neighborhood in Urumqi in northwestern China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. China’s far northwestern Xinjiang region is settled primarily by the Muslim Uighurs who have long chafed under Chinese rule. In recent years, there have been episodes of violence between locals and [...]
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 [...]
Burma Celebrates Independence Amid Criticism
Burma is marking the 64th anniversary of its independence from Britain Wednesday, amid criticism that the government’s recent clemency program is not doing enough for political prisoners. President Thein Sein, in a statement commemorating independence day, praised the military’s role in bringing about the recent democratic reforms. He said Burma is “marching towards a democratic [...]
Who Will Be The First Politician To Be GoDaddy’d?
| By Mike Masnick | Sourced from TechDirt | Having GoDaddy back off its support for SOPA/PIPA is one thing, but it hardly kills off these bills. Politicians are still very much in support of the bills, and both bills are poised to move forward in Congress when it comes back into session in late January. [...]
Internet Censorship: Lamar Smith Still Thinks It’s Just Google That Opposes SOPA / PIPA
| By Mike Masnick | Sourced from TechDirt| It’s really quite stunning to watch Lamar Smith pull out really out-dated talking points as he gets more and more desperate to defend SOPA, as he discovers that all the vaunted “support” that the US Chamber of Commerce promised him there was for the bill melts away. [...]
Congressional Investigations Into Dajaz1.com Censorship Begins
Sourced from TechDirt By Mike Masnick If the Justice Department hoped that it could seize the domain of a hip hop blog for over a year with no due process and then return it quietly and pretend nothing had happened, it may be in for a bit of a surprise. About an hour and a [...]
Censorship: Seven Detained Over Kadeer DVDs
Chinese police say they were in possession of a documentary featuring the exiled Uyghur leader. Chinese authorities in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang have detained seven ethnic minority Uyghurs after police raids confiscated DVDs featuring exiled Uyghur businesswoman Rebiya Kadeer, whom Beijing has blamed for ethnic violence. Police in the prefectural capital of Gulja [...]
LGBT Rights: US Policy on Gays Draws Strong, Mixed Reactions
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, December 8, 2011. The Obama administration’s announcement that it will combat efforts abroad to criminalize homosexual conduct is drawing criticism from U.S. conservatives, and praise from gay and human rights activists. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the new policy this week at the United Nations Human Rights Council [...]
Chinese Activist Warned Off Foreign Media
But government threats are unlikely to silence China’s rights activists, some analysts say. Authorities in Beijing have warned civil rights campaigner Hu Jia not to give any more interviews to foreign media organizations and to stay away from further activism. But the activist has questioned the legality of the government order. Hu, who rose to [...]
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 [...]
China: Party Elders Meet, Debate ‘Culture’, Censorship
China’s Party plenum meets to discuss culture, despite a worsening economic crisis. China’s ruling Communist Party leaders are meeting in Beijing to debate ‘cultural reforms,’ which some interpret as a tightening of control over media and the Internet, ahead of a leadership succession scheduled for next year. With a worsening economic crisis overseas and a [...]
