Al Jazeera Cancels Re-Airing of Bahrain Documentary
Al Jazeera has cancelled plans to re-run its 50-minute documentary “Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark,” under pressure from Bahraini...
Tag: censorship
China’s Anti-Smut Crackdown A Total Smokescreen
Chinese propaganda poster, “Herdspeople love to read books by Marx and Lenin” (1976) from chineseposters.net. Rebecca MacKinnon is an...
UK Teen Faces Prosecution for Calling Scientology ‘Cult’
No, you read that right. I’m so speechless that the only thing I can add is, “It’s not a...
The Internet’s Black Holes
Strange Maps reproduced the above map commissioned by Reporters Without Borders, via Ads of the World. The map purports...
AT&T Censoring Anti-Bush Remarks
Image: Karl Rove on his iPhone, via. It looks like AT&T — yes, former Cingular, and the carrier for...
LiveJournal Deleting User Accounts Dubiously, Again
Does anyone know how old Mickey Mouse is? Old enough to go down on Minnie? Just curious. Wow, it’s...
Senate Fucks Shit Up For TV, Restores Anti-Indecency Measure
Who watches regular TV anymore, or listens to the radio? Probably just our elected officials and a smattering of...
Court to FCC: It’s Not Fucking 1950, M’kay?
Ah, the sound of MSM struggling to survive. Actually it’s good news: a court just smacked the government for...
ICANN, WHOIS, DMCA… NFL!
There are two great articles up at Ars Technica right now, an alphabet soup of Internetty goodness. First up...
Exiled Zimbabwe Journos Reporting Via SMS
If you’re been following the story of Internet access, human rights violations and extreme censorship in Zimbabwe, you’ll recall...