Archive for the ‘International’ Category
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Barack Obama. You've heard his name 400 times today, so why not once more. Here's a brief look at Obama's policies on media censorship and net neutrality:
Television, Film and Internet Censorship:
'...As a parent, yes, I am concerned about what's coming over the airwaves. Now, right now, my daughters mostly are ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
The Australian Olympic Committee has confirmed Australian athletes competing in Beijing will be entitled to speak on any issue, including human rights.
However, all athletes will be required to sign an agreement asking that they only comment to the media about their own events, prospects and performances. This agreement has been ...
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
The music clip for Kylie Minogue's new track Wow has been yanked before it could air by UK communications regulator Ofcom. Not because Kylie's strutting around in gold short shorts or flashing side-boobie (this time around she's covered head to toe in a secondhand space suit). It's because the Wow ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Just thirteen complaints from newspaper readers who found a Ryanair ad offensive was enough for Britain's Advertising Standards Authority to demand the budget airline cease using the ad.
The ad features an adult dressed as a schoolgirl with the headline Hottest Back To School Fares. Offensive? C'mon, a trip to the ...
Posted in Advertising Censorship, International | 1 Comment »
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Xinhua news agency revealed Wednesday that China shut down 44,000 web sites in 2007 as part their campaign to clean up the Internet. Authorities also arrested nearly 900 people as a result.
AFP says:
Another 1,911 people have received unspecified "penalties", the Xinhua news agency said, citing a statement from a ...
Posted in International, Internet Censorship | 1 Comment »
Saturday, January 12th, 2008
The U.S. State Department has been given $15 Million by Congress to develop anti-censorship tools and services which could help Internet users breach electronic firewalls set up by China, Iran and other ?closed societies.? Defense News reports that the budget is to be "awarded competitively to software developers to produce ...
Posted in Fighting Censorship, International | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
Stephen Conroy's mandatory ISP filtering plan has been criticized as being a carbon copy of China's Internet censorship regime. Not in regards to the technical side of blacklisting websites, but the underlying desire for the Government to control the most important information resource ever created.
I spoke briefly with one Australian ...
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