censorship
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D-Notices, State Censorship And The Cynical Collusion of Mainstream Media
A DSMA-Notice (Defence and Security Media Advisory Notice) — formerly a DA-Notice (Defence Advisory Notice), and before that called a Defence Notice (D-Notice) until 1993—is an official request to news editors not to publish or broadcast items on specified subjects for “reasons of national security.” Continue reading
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Google sets up “news initiative” to censor political opposition and promote mainstream media By Andre Damon
Google announced Wednesday that it is partnering with the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Financial Times and other major news outlets to reinforce their monopoly over news coverage by blocking independent news organizations. Continue reading
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Facebook details plans to censor news feeds and manipulate public opinion By Andre Damon
Over the past two weeks, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced plans to reduce the amount of news shown to Facebook users and to ensure that the news that does appear comes from vetted sources, to introduce censorship to the world’s largest social network. Continue reading
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Facebook and Google outline unprecedented mass censorship at US Senate hearing By Andre Damon
Behind the backs of the US and world populations, social media companies have built up a massive censorship apparatus staffed by an army of “content reviewers” capable of seamlessly monitoring, tracking, and blocking millions of pieces of content. Continue reading
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Governments and corporations escalate Internet censorship and attacks on free speech
The year 2018 has opened with an international campaign to censor the Internet. Throughout the world, technology giants are responding to the political demands of governments by cracking down on freedom of speech, which is inscribed in the US Bill of Rights, the European Convention on Human Rights, and countless international agreements. Continue reading
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Google hiring 10,000 reviewers to censor YouTube content By Zaida Green
Google is escalating its campaign of internet censorship, announcing that it will expand its workforce of human censors to over 10,000, the internet giant announced on December 4. The censors’ primary focus will be videos and other content on YouTube, its video-sharing platform, but will work across Google to censor content and train its automated… Continue reading
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Net neutrality and the drive to censor the internet
Under the current law, upheld by numerous court decisions and reaffirmed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 2015, companies that provide internet access to users, known as internet service providers (ISPs), cannot block or impede their users’ access to any website or service. But the draft proposal published by FCC chairman Ajit Pai Wednesday,… Continue reading
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Google’s Eric Schmidt admits political censorship of search results
Responding to a question about the “manipulation of information” on the Internet during an appearance at the Halifax International Security Forum, Schmidt announced that Google is working on algorithms that will “de-rank” Russian-based news websites RT and Sputnik from its Google News services, effectively blocking users’ access to either site. Continue reading
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Google announces moves to censor RT and Sputnik By Trévon Austin
All but admitting that Google is engaged in censorship, Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google’s parent company Alphabet, announced that Google will create algorithms designed to “de-rank” web sites such as RT and Sputnik on its news delivery services. In a question and answer session at the Halifax International Security Forum in Canada over the… Continue reading
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EU anti-“fake news” authority prepares mass censorship By Alex Lantier
The European Union (EU) is launching the construction of an authority to monitor and censor so-called “fake news.” It is setting up a High-Level Expert Group on the issue and soliciting criticisms of “fake news” by media professionals and the public to decide what powers to give to this EU body, which is to begin… Continue reading
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US Justice Department Forces RT America To register As “Foreign Agent” — by Trévon Austin
RT, the Russia-based oppositional TV and Internet broadcaster, announced Thursday that the US Department of Justice has forced it to register as a “foreign agent” under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). Washington has given the outlet until Monday to register as a foreign agent or its director could be arrested and its assets frozen. Continue reading
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The Link Tax: Last week we said…
Last week we said we only had a few days left to call MEPs responsible for civil liberties before they voted on whether or not to approve content censorship rules, in the name of copyright. Then we found out, with only a few hours notice, that the vote has been postponed to November 20th. At… Continue reading
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Britain to Criminalize Reading Online Extremist Content By Stephen Lendman
The latest civil rights abuse came from hardline home secretary Amber Rudd. She’s spearheading a Tory effort to criminalize readership of so-called extremist content online – punishable by up to 15 years in prison. Continue reading
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The elites “have no credibility left:” An interview with journalist Chris Hedges By David North
6 October 2017 — WSWS On Monday, WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North interviewed Chris Hedges, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, lecturer and former New York Times correspondent. Among Hedges’ best-known books are War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, The Death of the Liberal Class, Empire of Illusion: the End of Literacy… Continue reading
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NY Times interviews David North on Google censorship of the Left
Technology reporter Daisuke Wakabayashi reviews the extensive evidence presented by the World Socialist Web Site that Google is censoring left-wing websites in the name of fighting “fake news.” Research by the WSWS has found that search traffic to thirteen left-wing, anti-war, and progressive sites has fallen by 55 percent since Google announced changes to its… Continue reading
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Google is intensifying its censorship of left-wing web sites
The world’s biggest corporations like Google, Facebook, and Amazon are intensifying efforts to block internet users from accessing left-wing web sites like the World Socialist Web Site. Continue reading
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Google’s new search protocol is restricting access to 13 leading socialist, progressive and anti-war web sites
New data compiled by the World Socialist Web Site, with the assistance of other Internet-based news outlets and search technology experts, proves that a massive loss of readership observed by socialist, anti-war and progressive web sites over the past three months has been caused by a cumulative 45 percent decrease in traffic from Google searches. Continue reading
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It's Getting Real – Google Censors the Left. And Us By Bruce A. Dixon
Conclusive evidence exists that Google is suppressing public access to socialist and left wing websites, almost certainly including Black Agenda Report. In fact, Black Agenda Report is by all accounts the ONLY black owned, run and oriented left web site so targeted. Not Blavity. Not theRoot, which are not left and in the case of… Continue reading
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Last ditch effort to save the Link Tax!
MEP Pascal Arimont tabled a series of amendments with the worst copyright proposals this debate has yet seen — including suggestions that would double the negative impact of the link tax, and drastically expand the scope of the content filtering censorship machine. Continue reading
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Statement by English PEN and Index on Censorship on the government’s counter-extremism strategy
In its new strategy, the government is proposing measures that may criminalise legitimate speech and shrink the space for open debate throughout society. The UK already has legislation dealing with criminal offences in this category, including the Terrorism Act and the Public Order Act, and there is no need for new laws that may seriously… Continue reading
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