Censorship

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• Convicted Murderer Sues Wikipedia, Demands Removal Of Name

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 460
  Wikipedia is under a censorship attack by a convicted German murderer invoking his country’s privacy laws in a bid to remove references to him killing Bavarian actor Walter Sedlmayr in 1990.
  11 hours ago

• Twitter: How much is too much information?

  
  Performancing — Authority: 126
  Even more than blogging, Twitter seems to be the ultimate way to say exactly what you mean, sometimes without thinking about the consequences, and sometimes not caring. Twitter has had its fair share of high-profile spats, but a recent “outrages” concerns Penelope Trunk’s twitter: “I’m in a board meeting. ...
  11 hours ago

• Jolly Well Knocking Those Nasty Online Terrorists For Six

  
  UBIWAR — Authority: 433
  Chris Williams at The Register picks up on more action from yesterday in the House of Lords – Terrorism Chiefs Don’t Know What They’ve Censored Online : Police are shutting websites without keeping any records, hampering government efforts to address online extremism, it’s been revealed. The Terrorism ...
  13 hours ago

• Networked organisations: the starfish revolution

  
  SMLXL - Engagement Marketing and Communication principles from Alan Moore — Authority: 422
  Samples from Smartmobs and orginated by Michael Leeden Several thoughtful people have commented on an unusual element in the Iranian revolutionary movement, aka “The Green Path of Hope.”  Although there is a troika (Mousavi, Karroubi and Khatami) that inspires many of the movement’s participants, there ...
  15 hours ago

• But is it art? Modern Warfare 2, computer games and morality

  
  Futurismic — Authority: 581
  Serendipity, yet again… Jonathan’s latest Blasphemous Geometries column on the moral dimension of modern computer game mechanics arrived in my inbox last weekend, and hence (unless he has contacts in the industry of which I am unaware), he’d have had no idea that this week would see a firestorm of ...
  17 hours ago

• Sega refusing to even attempt to release Aliens vs Predator in Germany

  
  LazyGamer .:: Console and PC Gaming News ::. — Authority: 492
  I know it’s not good news for local on Xbox 360 but I am honestly glad that Sega is finally taking a stand against the archaic censorship in Germany and maybe Australia as well. Sega have decided that it’s not even worth attempting to release their upcoming Aliens vs Predator in Germany due to the high levels of ...
  18 hours ago

• Aliens vs Predator vs Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle [AvP]

  
  Kotaku — Authority: 822
  This story involves Germany and a video game packed with violent content, so yeah, you can already imagine where things are headed from here. Seems Sega know that the upcoming Aliens vs Predator is so violent, and packed with so much gore, that theyre not even going to bother submitting it to the USK, Germanys ...
  19 hours ago

• Link of the Random Interval of Time (LotRIoT), 11-11-2009: Threatened Voices

  
  Litlets — Authority: 400
  The struggle for freedom never endsl
  21 hours ago

• Carrie Prejean is a child pornographer.

  
  Classically Liberal — Authority: 579
  I am shocked. I just realized that Carrie Prejean, the pin-up girl (literally) of the Religious Right is a self-confess child pornographer! By now it is well known that moralist, preachy busybody Prejean not only did raunchy pin-up photos but she made a pornographic video tape of herself, all while she was a ...
  1 day ago

• Legal Battle: Convicted Murderer Sues Wikipedia; Wants His Name Removed from Entry

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 649
  From the Article: Wikipedia is under a censorship attack by a convicted murderer who is invoking Germany’s privacy laws in a bid to remove references to his killing of a Bavarian actor in 1990. Lawyers for Wolfgang Werle, of Erding, Germany, sent a cease-and-desist letter (.pdf) demanding removal of Werle’s ...
  1 day ago

• Apple lets devs bite their nails in real time as iPhone apps navigate approval process

  
  F-Default — Authority: 561
  Apple’s App Store approval process is one of the great black boxes in the mobile industry, a bizarre place ruled by emotion , erratic logic , and an uneven application of censorship that has driven some developers to the very brink of insanity since the day of iPhone OS 2.0’s release. Well, folks, here’s the ...
  1 day ago

• German Murderer Seeks to Censor Wikipedia

  
  ModCool — Authority: 455
  A well known Bavarian actor by the name of Walter Sedlmayr was murdered in 1990. Two of his associated were tried and convicted of the crime. These men were recently paroled, and one of them is none too pleased that anyone can read all about him on the internet. He has retained a lawyer and has sued Wikipedia in ...
  1 day ago

• Smashing Chinas Great Firewall... through trade disputes?

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 460
  Who needs new laws or external pressure? A new paper argues that broad Internet censorship regimes might already be illegal under World Trade Organization rules about free trade. But no government seems eager to take on China at the WTO over the issue.
  1 day ago

• Reporting from Iraq: Freedom at risk

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 155
  "We take our freedom for granted. But imagine not to be able to speak or discuss or debate or even question the society you live in," Tony Blair told the House of Commons in March 2003, urging MPs to support the invasion of Iraq. They were fine words. But they ring hollow more than six years after a war held in the ...
  1 day ago

• China Ruined the Android Experience

  
  Sinosplice: Life — Authority: 110
  I was pretty excited when I first got my Android phone. Yeah, the Hero a bit sluggish, but that’s been fixed , and the Sense UI is even being updated to support the latest version of Android. So far, so good. Starting about a month ago, however, I could no longer download anything from the Android Market ...
  1 day ago

• If You Can’t Beat Them, Stick Them in Their Own Literary Ghetto

  
  The Sundries Shack — Authority: 526
  What is it about progressives that the very notion of competition should turn their bowels to water? It’s as if the phrase “the marketplace of ideas” is the intellectual equivalent... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  1 day ago

• Hard-Hitting Pro-White South Africa Sucks Blog To Close Down Permanently Effective November 13th, 2009

  
  White Reference — Authority: 122
  I have just learned that one of the few hard-hitting pro-White blogs telling the unvarnished truth about life for Whites in post-apartheid South Africa is shutting down permanently as of Friday November 13th, 2009. On that day, the South Africa Sucks blog will go out of business. The chief editor of the blog, ...
  1 day ago

• "Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy Forcibly Guest-Edits High School Newspaper Article About His Own Visit."

  
  Althouse — Authority: 740
  But now wasnt it so nice of him to stop by and teach the children about law ... with a whole counter-example object lesson?
  1 day ago

• Censoring History Won’t Work

  
  AssortedStuff — Authority: 113
  Another interesting example of how attempting to filter information coming from the web doesn’t work all that well.This situation has to do with a man who was convicted of murdering a well-known actor in Germany and is now out on parole, and who now wants Wikipedia to remove all mentions of his name from the [...]
  1 day ago

• EFF to represent Yes Men in Chamber of Commerce lawsuit

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 885
  Rebecca from the Electronic Frontier Foundation sez, "More news about the Yes Men and the Chamber of Commerce. BoingBoing reported on the lawsuit the Chamber filed over the activists political criticism of the Chambers stance on climate change and the Chambers DMCA takedown attempt. Now its official: EFF and Davis ...
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