Tag: censorship
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pentagon releases edited interview with ‘9/11 mastermind’
from kltv: The Pentagon has released an audio tape of a closed court session with the suspected mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. The words of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed have been censored. The Defense Department decided to edit out his comments about his justification for waging a holy war against the United States. A spokesman says…
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jewish group plans to sue youtube for anti-israel videos
from haaretz: Germany’s Central Council of Jews is considering a criminal complaint against YouTube for allowing videos that promote racial hatred and glorify war, it was reported Sunday. Such action makes the video-sharing website liable to charges of incitement to racial hatred, the council’s vice president, Salomon Korn, told the German television program Report Mainz.…
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media monarchy’s google video account cancelled
Thanks for your email. Despite repeated warnings to cease uploading videos in violation of our Program Policies, we found that you’ve uploaded additional videos which are also in violation of our Program Policies. We will be terminating your Google Video account. You will no longer be able to upload videos into your account. so unfortunately…
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who’s editing wikipedia? diebold, cia & wal-mart
from wired: On November 17th, 2005, an anonymous Wikipedia user deleted 15 paragraphs from an article on e-voting machine-vendor Diebold, excising an entire section critical of the company’s machines. While anonymous, such changes typically leave behind digital fingerprints offering hints about the contributor, such as the location of the computer used to make the edits.…
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media monarchy is blocked in china
well, i must be doing something right… so, taking a cue from information liberation, i decided to see if media monarchy was blocked by the great firewall of china and sure enough it is! (this includes the .org & .com sites as well.) so, why would one of the UN’s most favored nations block media…