Pakistan Internet restrictions restrict freedom - The Alestle

Pakistan Internet restrictions restrict freedom
The Alestle
Here in the US, anyone can post almost anything on the Internet without fear. It's unfotunate that in today's world there are still governments that will censor ideas. It's not just the Internet that the Pakistani government is going after.

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Standing Up in Wisconsin and Beyond for Our Rights in Radio! - Huffington Post (blog)

Standing Up in Wisconsin and Beyond for Our Rights in Radio!
Huffington Post (blog)
The courts have actually ruled on behalf of We the People, but thanks to private censorship, We the People don't even know it. Despite what big corporate media tells us again and again, especially on the radio, broadcasting operates under unique rules ...

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Secret Internet censorship planners push Congress to violate human rights - Examiner.com

Secret Internet censorship planners push Congress to violate human rights
Examiner.com
"The US content industry will try anything to preserve its profit margin and power over the creative content market at the expense of the Internet," reported Moira Sutton for EFF, a major US-based non-government organization that works to defend human ...

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Does the end justify the means for censorship? - The Malaysian Insider

Does the end justify the means for censorship?
The Malaysian Insider
In a series of articles in The Malaysian Insider some months ago, I advocated against censorship despite the growing worry that the Internet brings evil elements to the world, especially to young ones. This is particularly important for us in Malaysia ...

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What killed social conservatism? - Salon


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What killed social conservatism?
Salon
The social traditionalists who claimed to be a “moral majority” in the United States in the 1980s are acting like an embattled, declining minority in the second decade of the 21st century. A few years ago the conservative activist Paul Weyrich declared ...

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Internet censorship - Deccan Chronicle


Deccan Chronicle
Internet censorship
Deccan Chronicle
Threat to our internet freedom gets some obscure positioning on a double digit page.” I couldn't help but agree. While it's a direct message to us, I understand both parts of the problem, and I can't help but conclude that the internet is right, ...
Censorship on Internet - Another dictatorship of Congress Times of Assam

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The Legal Cost of Improper Internet Censorship - Education Week News

The Legal Cost of Improper Internet Censorship
Education Week News
By Joshua Block The US Supreme Court ruled 30 years ago that public schools cannot engage in viewpoint-based censorship of library books. Schools can keep books off the shelves if they are poorly written or inappropriate for a particular age group, ...

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Anonymous Leaks 1.7 GB Justice Department Database - InformationWeek

Anonymous Leaks 1.7 GB Justice Department Database
InformationWeek
By Mathew J. Schwartz InformationWeek In what was billed as "Monday Mail Mayhem," the hacktivist group Anonymous released a 1.7-GB archive that it's characterizing as "data that used to belong to the United States Bureau of Justice, until now.

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Facebook, patriotism, taxes and fair play - Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)

Facebook, patriotism, taxes and fair play
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
Singapore has no history of innovation in software comparable to that of the United States. Singapore did not have the hundreds of thousands of Internet-connected college students who became Facebook's initial customer base. Perhaps most importantly ...

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Internet Restrictions: How Much Should We Worry About Our Freedom of Information? - Huffington Post

Internet Restrictions: How Much Should We Worry About Our Freedom of Information?
Huffington Post
India is not the only modern democracy where government institutions are pushing (and are being pushed) to facilitate blanket restrictions on internet use and flow of information to the detriment of human rights. In January this year, the US Congress ...

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