kellyramsey + censorship 13
What’s behind the strange Wikileaks #cablegate censorship behaviour? (A Cat @ Mein-Parteibuch)
december 2010 by kellyramsey
" Super injunctions are a form of gagging order so harsh and secret that the ensored is not only prohibited from reporting any details of it, but even prohibited to report on the the existence of the injunction at all. Those, who closely follow the Wikileaks #cablegate websites, may have remarked a very strange censorship behaviour there which seem not to make sense at all. "
wikileaks
censorship
december 2010 by kellyramsey
Anonymous Unfurls ‘Operation Titstorm’ (David Kravets, Wired)
february 2010 by kellyramsey
" Several Australian government websites were slowly recovering Wednesday hours after the online prankster group Anonymous unleashed a massive distributed denial-of-service attack to protest the country’s evolution toward internet censorship. "
Anonymous
censorship
from twitter
february 2010 by kellyramsey
Censoring Student Media (Elisabeth Garber-Paul @ RHRealityCheck)
february 2009 by kellyramsey
"Last week, 3,000 copies of the New School Free Press were stolen on the day it was published. ... mostly it was a group of radical students, angered by our portrayal of their organization, who attempted to silence our voices through such a crude and undemocratic method. "
journalism
censorship
information-ethics
february 2009 by kellyramsey
More Scientology Censoring: Amazon.com Review Guidelines Disallows Critiques Of Authors Or Their Intentions (Glosslip)
april 2008 by kellyramsey
"Not only have ALL the 1-star reviews of Dianetics been removed, now amazon.com has erased all the discussion boards ABOUT that fact." Also, evidently Amazon considers critique of research method to be an attack on the author.
information-hegemonies
censorship
Scientology
april 2008 by kellyramsey
Pentagon Bars Troops From YouTube And MySpace, Steps Up Its Own Efforts On Those Sites (@ Think Progress)
may 2007 by kellyramsey
"As of yesterday, U.S. soldiers are blocked from accessing YouTube, MySpace, and 11 other websites on official Defense Department computers nationwide ... the Pentagon is stepping up its own efforts on social networking sites"
military-service
military-recruitment
censorship
may 2007 by kellyramsey
Google defiant over censorship in China (David Smith, Observer)
october 2006 by kellyramsey
"At the first Internet Governance Forum in Athens, starting tomorrow, the firm will insist its presence in China does more good than harm by getting more information to more people."
information-hegemonies
censorship
China
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Defense Tech: Army "Big Brother" Unit Targets Bloggers (Defense Tech)
october 2006 by kellyramsey
"The team, working "under the direction of the Army Web Risk Assessment Cell" hunts for "documents, pictures and other items that may compromise security" -- and then orders the parties to take the offensive content offline."
military-service
blogging
censorship
october 2006 by kellyramsey
A New, Computer-Generated Voice (Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times)
september 2006 by kellyramsey
China struggles with censorship and the suppression of online dissent. Meanwhile, various pissants in the West fret about not having 24-7 broadband access to free non-DRMed music and video.
censorship
police-state
China
unrest
september 2006 by kellyramsey
Google kills Mango Sauce | Mango Sauce
april 2006 by kellyramsey
"This week, a junior Google official decided (wrongly) that Mango Sauce was offensive and arbitrarily pulled the plug on its advertising - leaving the site dead in the water."
censorship
information-ethics
april 2006 by kellyramsey
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