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Pakistan Temporarily Blocks Twitter For Blasphemy
Comments (0) | blasphemy, cartoons, censorship, International, Media, Muhammad, Pakistan, Pop Culture, social media, Twitter
The site was banned over a refusal to block content
The site was blocked for around 8 hours. No reason was given for the ban, or the turn-around
Read more...Santorum: 'If Elected, I Will Ban Pornography In The U.S.'
Comments (13) | 2012 Presidential Election, censorship, conservative, GOP, Michele Bachmann, National, pornography ban, Republican, Rick Santroum
GOP candidate Rick Santorum. (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)
Says country is "suffering a pandemic of harm" from porn.
Read more...SOPA Just The Latest To Succumb To Internet Activism [INFOGRAPHIC]
Comments (0) | blackout, censorship, craigslist, dodd, First Amendment, Nation and World, online censorship, PIPA, Reddit, Science+Tech, SOPA, wikipedia, wordpress
Joins the ranks of Netflix, Verizon and Bank of America, all in the past year.
Read more...Tumblr Versus the Corporations: Battle Of Censorship
Comments (8) | censorship, Congress, entertainment, entertainment news, Law, legislation, Media, protect ip, stop online piracy, tumblr
Do you like your media censored? From its recent display of activism, it’s clear the ever-outspoken microblogging site Tumblr doesn’t.
Read more...Wilders Acquitted Of Incitement To Hatred
Comments (1) | book banning, censorship, eu, Geert Wilders, Hitler, islam, Islamic Totalitarianism, Mein Kampf, Opinion, Quran
(Roel Wijnants, Creative Commons)
It’s a trial that never should have been—no matter what one thinks about Wilders.
Read more...Clinton's Ban On Social Network Reporting Regressive
Comments (1) | bill clinton, censorship, First Amendment, freedom of speech, Opinion, social media, Technology
President Bill Clinton (Creative Commons)
Mother of all ironies: Clinton bans social network reporting at a tech conference.
Read more...Craigslist Bans Sex Ads...But Not Demand For Them
Comments (2) | adult services, censorship, child exploitation, classifieds ads, communications decency act, craigslist, freedom of speech, online sex trafficking, Opinion, Technology, technology bans
Craigslist voluntarily censored its “adult services” category in response to pressure from 17 state attorneys general.
Those criticizing Craigslist have misdirected the public’s attention from the true problem: demand for child sex.
Read more...I Heart Google
Comments (0) | censorship, China, Chinese, Chinese operations, digital espionage, Google, hacking, Opinion, Politics 2.0
From the search engine that started it all, to Gmail and Gchat, there are a thousand reasons to love Google.
Read more...Now, we can add one more reason to the list.
The Internet giant threatened to pull out of China this week, citing censorship requirements and allegations that government-hired hackers broke into the accounts of suspected dissidents
Make that a thousand-and-one reasons to love Google.
When Google began its China operations, the company incited the wrath of human rights activists around the world by giving into to the government's strict censorship requirements. At the time, company executives argued that giving the Chinese people better access to some information beat no information at all. Doing business in China would not, Google execs assured, violate the company's famous informal motto, "don't be evil."
However, the game changed dramatically when hackers - supposedly bankrolled by the regime - accessed the private Google accounts of a number of Chinese users in kind of "digital espionage."
Within days of uncovering the breach, Google ceased censoring its search results and threatened to pack up its operations and leave the country all together.
I applaud Google.
While it's the not most popular search engine in China (that honor belongs to the government-sanctioned tool known as Baidu), Google stands to rake in around $600 million this year in China. Furthermore, the company could lose out on billions more in the long run if it pulls out of China.
With all that at stake, Google's brave decision to stand up to this restrictive regime should be applauded.
Though experts contend the government likely won't back down in this mighty battle of wills, by leaving China, Google will set a precedence throughout the tech world and burn a new path in the way business can help foster human rights not just in Asia, but worldwide.
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