Tag: censorship
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@DeadlineLive: James Evan Pilato on Paris Hypocrisy
Media Monarchy joins Jack Blood for the first time in 2015 to talk about the Paris attack + ‘This Day In History’ headlines and more on Deadline Live! Download/Subscribe
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Interview w/ Joan Rivers – June 27, 2014
Media Monarchy took the rare opportunity to talk to Joan Rivers about race, religion, women and money… Download/Subscribe
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Venezuela’s Internet Crackdown Escalates into Regional Blackout
from EFF.org: For the last month, Venezuela has been caught up in widespread protests against its government. The Maduro administration has responded by cracking down on what it claims as being foreign interference online. As that social unrest has escalated, the state’s censorship has widened: from the removal of television stations from cable networks, to…
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Australian ISP’s against government crackdown on piracy
from afr.com: Australia’s leading internet service providers have hit out at proposals by Attorney-General George Brandis to stop internet piracy as being a “political thought-bubble” and burden on the industry that won’t stop crime. Senator Brandis last week said the government was considering the introduction of graduated warnings scheme, known in the industry as a…
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Turkey adopts ‘Orwellian’ internet curbs
from sbs.com.au: Turkish MPs have adopted new internet legislation roundly criticised as a fresh assault by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on freedom of expression, access to information and investigative journalism. The proposals come amid parallel moves by Erdogan to push through contentious judicial reforms as he fights to keep the lid on a deeply…
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Net neutrality gets a kick in the teeth
A US court has ruled against the FCC’s Open Internet regulations, putting the future of net neutrality completely up in the air. from zdnet.com: The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has ruled in the case of Verizon et al. v. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and it’s bad, bad news…
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Vietnam Bans Free Speech Online with Decree 72
from libertyblitzkrieg.com / by Micheal Kreiger: I’ve been watching the progressive erosion of civil liberties in Vietnam with a watchful eye for some time now. The country first appeared on my radar due to its particularly aggressive measures against the citizenry’s gold buying. As the progression usually goes, first a country will lash out against…
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Interview w/ Adam Gorightly on ‘The Dead Comedian Conspiracy’
Writer, researcher and “crackpot historian” Adam Gorightly speaks about his new article in Paranoia Magazine called ‘The Dead Comedian Conspiracy’. MP3/FeedArchive
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UK ‘Porn’ Filter Will Also Block Violence, Alcohol, Terrorism, Smoking And ‘Esoteric Material’
from huffingtonpost.com: The United Kingdom’s new internet filters promise to block much more than just pornography, according to a report by the digital advocacy organization Open Rights Group. Last week, Prime Minister David Cameron announced online porn would soon become automatically blocked in order to “protect children and their innocence.” The filters will be implemented…
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Innovation, Optimism And Opportunity: All Coming Together To Make Real Change
from Techdirt.com: from the keep-it-going dept. Over the past few years, we’ve had a bit of a “New Year’s” tradition around here for my last “regular” post of the year. It started in 2008, in response to an email asking how I didn’t go crazy with anger over all of the bad stuff we wrote…
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Wozniak Says Web Crackdown Coming, Freedom Failing
Remember when the rising stars were people who made useful things? Now the “stars” are financial industry scavengers and Surveillance State suppliers. Here’s what they guy who helped kickstart the personal computer revolution thinks about where we’re headed.
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Corbett Report: Episode249 – How to Manufacture (or Suppress) Outrage
Listen to @CorbettReport Radio on @RBNlive Weeknights at 7 Eastern Time from corbett report: Sandra Fluke. Justice for Trayvon. Kony 2012. The 24/7 news cycle is dominated by incessant coverage of topics of little significance. Reported in a completely decontextualized manner, the public flits from story of the week to story of the week so…


