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• Uzbekistan: photographer facing jail term

  
  Index on Censorship — Authority: 609
  A criminal case has been filed against the photographer and documentary film maker Umida Akhmedova in Uzbekistan for “slander” and “insult”. Akhmedova is incriminated for her involvement in “Women and men: from dawn till dusk” photo album, produced in 2007. The album consists of 110 pictures, reflecting ...
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• Next years must see movie!

  
  North Coast Voices — Authority: 140
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• Kevin Rudd gets anti-censorship mail from Paris

  
  North Coast Voices — Authority: 140
  From Reporters Without Borders : The Hon Kevin Michael Rudd Prime Minister Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 Australia Paris, 18 December 2009 Dear Prime Minister, Reporters Without Borders, an organisation that defends free expression worldwide, would like to share with you its ...
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• Kyrgyzstan: journalist dies after brutal attack

  
  Index on Censorship — Authority: 609
  A Kyrgyz opposition journalist, Gennady Pavlyuk has died in Kazakhstan today, nearly a week after he was thrown out of sixth-floor window with his hands and feet bound. He had been in a coma since the 16 December incident and died without regaining consciousness. Pavlyuk was a leading critic of Kyrgyzstan’s ...
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• UK attempt to censor punternet.com

  
  CyberLaw Blog — Authority: 134
  The truth behind Punternet.com, 2009 – Wikileaks : Punternet.com is a website for those who use prostitutes to write about their experiences in the similar manner to product review sites — price, location, features and quality. This document is an activist ‘intelligence report’ on Punternet.com, mainly ...
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• The Decade In Unnecessary Censorship

  
  Celebrity Odor — Authority: 633
  Here’s an awesome wrap of the last decade….and in an unnecessarily censored way of course.
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• China Plucks Popular ‘Snail House’ TV Show Off The Air

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 536
  From Los Angeles Times : For avid fans, the hit series is a rare taste of urban realism: must-see TV, Chinese-style. The weekly show “ Wo Ju ,” or “Snail House,” has wowed young audiences with its racy dialogue and themes that lampoon China’s skyrocketing home prices, sleazy developers and corrupt party ...
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• Anti-Conroy Campaigners Damage Australian Anti-Censorship Cause

  
  The Inquisitr Entertainment — Authority: 713
  I don’t need to highlight the multiple posts here at The Inquisitr when it comes to my stance against Chinese style censorship in Australia; I’m a foundation member of the Pirate Parry in Australia despite previously swearing off politics for life; half of that drive was censorship driven, the other half was a ...
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• spawn of 9 11

  
  wacLA.org — Authority: 126
  > Watch on YouTube Special thanx to WEARECHANGELA for their protest footage and huge banner signs they used. what people do not know is killing people and causing too much suffering across the world. Glenn beck you have blood on your hands 
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• Fears Russians Will Not Support Cyrillic TLD

  
  DomainPulse.com - The Beat on the Domain Name Industry — Authority: 429
  The Russian government is supporting the introduction of a Cyrillic internationalised Top Level Domain, but the Russian public does not seem so keen to follow, reports The New York Times . The Times says “computer users are worried that Cyrillic domains will give rise to a hermetic Russian Web, a sort of ...
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• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
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• Ten years of technology: 2006

  
  Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 137
  As the noughties come to a close, we take a look at the biggest technology stories of the decade - and how the Guardian reported them at the time Were closing in on the end of our review of the decades technology stories, and how the Guardian reported them, and todays year of choice is a doozy. In the wider world, ...
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• The Chinese Route To a Web Free of Porn

  
  Slashdot — Authority: 159
  An anonymous reader writes "Despite repeated for the children campaigns, the Western Web as a whole has provided little or no isolation of pornography. This is why the Chinese are now attempting to march to a place where no country has been before: a Web without porn. Recent regulations have included closing down ...
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• “Sex” & “Porn” Children’s Top Searches of 2009

  
  Sankaku Complex — Authority: 604
  A breakdown of the search queries made by children through 2009 reveals an unsurprising fascination with sex and porn, although some might be surprised to see “porn” ranking 4th for children aged 7 and under… The rankings are compiled by top scareware seller Norton, and are helpfully divided ...
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• Mr. Disspain sinks his fangs in....

  
  North Coast Voices — Authority: 140
  I think the creator of www.stephenconroy.com.au (later http://stephen-conroy.com ) might think himself lucky that Chris Disspain CEO of .au Domain Administration Ltd at least endeavoured to be a little polite in correspondence, as he summarily booted the spoof site off the Australian Internet with only ...
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• It’s Beginning To Feel A Lot Like A “Fuck You” Christmas….

  
  American Blog — Authority: 127
  Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY Update, Dec. 21 : Rage Against The Machine have the UK Number One Single for Christmas, and sent tens of thousands of pounds the way of a homeless charity. Frontman Zack De La Rocha declares victory for real music with something to say over corporate production line pop blech :“…I ...
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• How a group of critics and film editors…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 493
  How a group of critics and film editors in Egypt saved James Cameron’s new movie ‘Avatar’ from the censorship brutes. Top American film critic Roger Ebert has published a letter from a fellow critic in Egypt who tells how he and a small group of writers and film editors advanced on the censorship office, ...
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• How an old cleric challenged the Islamic Republic at its core

  
  Antony Loewenstein — Authority: 447
  The death of Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri in Iran has caused huge public grief and anger : Blogger Cyrus Farivar reminds us of the man’s influence on Iran’s internet culture: I’m obviously fascinated with Montazeri’s small role in Iran’s Internet history. As best as I can tell, this is ...
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• Down the memory hole!

  
  Journey to Perplexity — Authority: 120
  The good old days of airbrushing history away:       Not so easy anymore, as pointed out in this (unintentionally?) amusing story in the New York Times:  Accenture, as if Tiger Woods Were Never There . 
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• Reporters taking on the powerful are killed with impunity

  
  Antony Loewenstein — Authority: 447
  Journalists simply doing their job are at risk . We stand in solidarity with anybody challenging the business or political elites: The number of journalists killed around the world in 2009 rose to a record 68 after a massacre in the Philippines, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said on Thursday. The ...
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