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John Graham Kerlen was prosecuted after insulting a Bexley councillor on Twitter. Photograph: Iain Masterton/Alamy Twitter is storming, as Twitter is wont to do, with suggestions that freedom of speech, if not dead, is at least in dire need of CPR.A study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University has concluded that Chinese social media sites are deleting messages with content that might be construed as controversial by the Communist Party - the first conclusive evidence that state censorship extends to social media sites like Sina Weibo, the popular micro blogging Web site that many have likened to a Chinese Twitter. The study, published on the Web site of First Monday , an online publication of the University of Illinois, Chicago, finds that censors in China delete around 16 percent of the messages submitted to Sina Weibo , the popular micro blogging Web site that many have likened to a Chinese version of Twitter. The study, released in March, concludes that "soft censorship" in China - the removal of controversial subject matter from blogs and Web pages - is at least as popular as hard censorship, like the blocking of offensive sites.
Study Finds China Censorship Of Social Media Is Real, Pervasive | threatpost
After the huge online protests in the USA, against the extremist SOPA and PIPA internet copyright bills, the European Parliament has already started working on their global counterpart. It’s called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. ACTA is yet another offensive against the sharing of culture on the Internet. ACTA is an agreement that has been secretly created by a small “club” of 39 like-minded countries. Including 27 members of the European Union, the United States and Japan. In a typically EU fashion, ACTA has been ‘negotiated’ instead of being democratically debated.
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A video report on Alaa Abd El Fattah, a blogger detained in Cairo. Early on Wednesday, Mosireen, a media collective in Cairo, added a short report on the activist blogger Alaa Abd El Fattah to its YouTube channel . Mr.
Glimpses of a Detained Blogger in Cairo - NYTimes.com
Max Mosley The former head of Formula One racing, Max Mosely, lost his post a few years back after British tabloids ran pictures of him involved in am alleged “Nazi themed” orgy. Google, understandably, has thousands of search results that link to queries involving Mr. Mosley and the term “orgy.” In fact, shortly after we publish this piece, they will have another (oops). Now Mr.
An Orgy of Censorship, Max Mosley Sues Google to Block Search Results | Betabeat — News, gossip and intel from Silicon Alley 2.0.
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By Matt Braithwaite, Transparency Engineering Tech Lead More than a year ago, we launched our Transparency Report , which is a site that shows the availability of Google services around the world and lists the number of requests we’ve received from governments to either hand over data or to remove content. We wanted to provide a snapshot of government actions on the Web — and in recent cases like Libya and Myanmar , we were glad to see users start to get back on our services.
editor Raja Petra Kamarudin. Kamarudin had been outspoken in his criticism of the government. On September 12, 2008, Kamarudin was arrested at his residence under the Internal Security Act (ISA) - which allows for detention without trial.
Malaysia: WikiLeaks documents press censorship | Malaysia News.Net
In the mere month since the public launching of Google+, it has become clear that this innovative and highly useful service -- that I've been happily using since its initial availability on June 28th -- has triggered a growing controversy over foundational issues of identity on the Internet. Yet make no mistake about it, Google+ itself is not the real issue here at all. Complex issues involving real names, nicknames, pseudonyms, anonymity, verified identity, and more have been pulled into the spotlight by this launch, largely due to Google's desire that users' associated public profiles include their real (or at least their "commonly used") names, and questions regarding how users' adherence to this requirement are being evaluated.
Lauren Weinstein's Blog: Real Names, Guilt, Self-Censorship, and the Identity War
The decision by Bay Area Rapid Transit officials to cut off cellphone service Thursday evening – to forestall a planned protest – raises a fundamental question: Do Americans have a basic right to digital free speech or to digitally organized assembly? Skip to next paragraph Because July protests against BART police shootings had turned violent, BART officials took the unusual step to protect public safety, they said. The tactic may have worked: No protests took place Thursday night at BART stations.
