Tag: censorship

FCC Wants Greater Control Of The News
The Federal Communications Commission is planning on conducting a study to determine how news outlets decide what topics to take up. It sounds simple and innocent enough, but many...
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Bing Says It’s Not Censoring Chinese Search Results In The U.S.
If you know anything about the Internet, you're well aware of the Great Firewall of China. The country polices what its citizens can and can not see on the Internet which means sea...
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Should Google Be Forced To Filter Search Results?
There are a lot of people out there with things in their past that they're not proud of. Sometimes those things make there way to the Internet and do a great deal of damage to thei...
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Cubans Using Thumb Drives to Exchange Information
Citizens of the Republic of Cuba remain mostly disconnected from the internet in the communist country, though have been inventive in finding ways to access and exchange informatio...
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Former Formula One Head Wants Google To Remove Results Showcasing Infamous Orgy
Google went to court in France on Wednesday because of a suit filed by Max Mosley, former head of Formula One racing. The battle is similar to others Google has fought in the past....
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Google May Face Full Pakistan Block Over “Blasphemous” Materials
Pakistan's new IT and telecommunications minister has a problem. She wants to end to longstanding ban on Google's YouTube, but she also needs assurances that Google will work to bl...
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Is Facebook Getting ‘Freedom Of Expression’ Right?
Facebook has recently taken some heat over its approach to content on the social network that depicts, glorifies and/or trivializes violence against women. Groups like Women, Actio...
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Is Google Censoring Users Too Heavily?
Now that the chosen few have had time to play around for Google Glass for a bit, many are noticing some unexpected restrictions. Specifically, the voice-to-text system, which is th...
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Pakistan’s Mobiilink Offers Free Tweeting to Its Customers
Whenever a country that has a history of internet censorship gains better access to one of the internet's most important tools, it's big news. And that's exactly what has happen...
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Change.org: It’s Not Just Bloggers And Techies Who Will Miss Google Reader
It didn't take long after Google announced that it is killing off Google Reader to realize how much the product will be missed by quite a few people. Even the...
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Vine Starts Censoring Porn-Related Tag Searches
In a move that's hard to say wasn't expected, Twitter's new six-second video sharing app Vine has...
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It’s Been a Good Year for Unnecessary Censorship [VIDEO]
Every week, Jimmy Kimmel pays tribute gives a giant f**k you to the FCC with his segment "This Week in Unnecessary Censorship." A w...
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You Can Now See All The Erroneous DMCA Takedown Requests Google Gets
Google does a lot of work for copyright holders in the US. Under the DMCA, Google has to delete infringing links from its search results. It used to be not such a bad job, but now...
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Censoring The Internet Won’t Stop Terrorism
Terrorists are on the Internet. It's just a fact. Just like you and I, members of radical fringe groups use the Internet to communicate ideas and spread information. It's hard to c...
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