censorship
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British government introduces Internet censorship filters By Mark Blackwood
Complying with the dictates of the Conservative-Liberal-Democrat coalition government, the UK’s biggest Internet Service Providers (ISPs), covering 95 percent of all households, have agreed to initiate a “family-friendly” filtering system for the Internet. Smaller ISPs are expected to follow suit. The government will consider legislation if the self-regulatory agreement does not work Continue reading
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Intelsat suspends satellite services to Iranian TV channels
Communications satellite services provider Intelsat has announced the suspension of its services to Iranian channels, especially the English-language news network, Press TV, as the West’s campaign against free speech intensifies Continue reading
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Suppressed By The BBC By Craig Murray
I was invited then disinvited to discuss Bradley Manning on BBC Breakfast TV this morning. I was delighted and really surprised that the BBC were prepared to give such prime media exposure to the case against the persecution of Manning. I should have realised it would not be allowed to happen. Continue reading
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Obama-Media Scandals- Only the Tip of The Iceberg: Wiretapping of US Congress & Using NGOs as Traps for Whistleblowers
Isn’t it ironic? After more than a decade of intensive government witch-hunting directed toward government whistleblowers and truth-tellers- who also happen to be the most valuable sources when it comes to media and journalism, the US media has suddenly become alert and apprehensive to its government’s decade-long snooping, targeting, persecuting, and prosecuting of information-transparency sources.… Continue reading
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Dead Journalists and the Newseum Scandal By Peter Hart
On May 10, the Huffington Post’s Michael Calderone reported that the museum was being criticized by “conservative outlets and a pro-Israel think tank” over the inclusion in its Journalists Memorial of two reporters from Al-Aqsa TV, which is run by Hamas. Continue reading
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French army suppresses reporting of Mali war By Ernst Wolff
Since the start of the war the French army, in collaboration with the Malian army, has systematically prevented reporters and journalists from any possibility of conducting objective reporting. Continue reading
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Reporters Without Borders: Report on Internet Surveillance, Focusing on 5 Governments and 5 Companies Enemies of Internet
On 12 March, World Day Against Cyber-Censorship, Reporters Without Borders is releasing a Special report on Internet surveillance, available at surveillance.rsf.org/en. It looks at the way governments are increasingly using technology that monitors online activity and intercepts electronic communication in order to arrest journalists, citizen-journalists and dissidents. Around 180 netizens worldwide are currently in prison… Continue reading
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WikiLeaks accuses Oxford Union of “censorship” By Xin Fan
WikiLeaks has accused the Oxford Union of “censor[ing]” footage of Julian Assange’s address to the debating society in January. It alleged on Twitter that the Union had replaced the backdrop of the video, which was personally selected by Assange, with a plain still of the Oxford Union logo Continue reading
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Facebook Yields to Pressure: Reactivates Political Critics’ Accounts
Prominent political critics confirmed to us that their accounts had been suspended or inactivated yesterday in a coordinated purge. Continue reading
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Facebook Yields to Pressure: Reactivates Political Critics’ Accounts
Prominent political critics confirmed to us that their accounts had been suspended or inactivated yesterday in a coordinated purge. Continue reading
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New free press foundation helps WikiLeaks to subvert banking blockade
A new foundation dedicated to promoting media transparency and fighting censorship is to support WikiLeaks in its efforts to subvert a two-year block on payments by Visa and MasterCard. Continue reading
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Video: My Interview with Top TV Journalist Abby Martin @ RT By Sibel Edmonds
A great example is Abby Martin at RT. Not only is she brilliant, informed, articulate, and very outspoken (and beautiful), but that she is one of us: a tireless member of our irate minority circle. Whether it is the accelerating police state practices, or ever-expanding perpetual wars, or still-unanswered and unaccountable 9/11-the needed trigger for… Continue reading
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European Parliament votes to protect Wikileaks against financial blockade
In a landmark decision today the European Parliament initiated the drafting of legislation that would stop the arbitrary banking blockades against WikiLeaks and other organizations facing economic censorship. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 5 November 2012
5 November 2012 ‘WikiLeaks search ban – censorship’, earns US Archives ‘Ministry of Truth’ tag RT The case of WikiLeaks is once again hitting the headlines. That’s after the US National Archive blocked any search attempts containing the name of the whistleblowing website. The move, on the recommendation of Washington, was said to be protecting … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjn_g7a50Kg… Continue reading
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How the BBC betrayed the NHS: an exclusive report on two years of censorship and distortion By Oliver Huitson
In the two years building up to the government’s NHS reform bill, the BBC appears to have categorically failed to uphold its remit of impartiality, parroting government spin as uncontested fact, whilst reporting only a narrow, shallow view of opposition to the bill. In addition, key news appears to have been censored. The following in-depth… Continue reading
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Her Majesty’s BBC’s Syria Coverage: “Sorry for the Lies”… by Felicity Arbuthnot
As the sabre rattling towards Iran and the ongoing tragedy in Syria become increasingly hard to unravel, “media errors” or perhaps even “obfuscation” create their own navigational complexities. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 