?The Guru Papers?: censorship and manipulative control of followers? minds
2009-10-28 09:09:00 Yet more quotations on gurus which apply with full force to Sathya Sai Baba, who inists he is perfect and pure, despite countless testimonies to the contrary! The title “The Guru Papers – Masks of Authopritarian Power” encapsulates the matter most succinctly. By holding gurus as perfect and thus beyond ordinary explanations, their presumed specialness ...
From Russia with Censorship
2009-09-17 03:07:00 FreeMediaOnline.org, Free Media Online Blog, GovoritAmerika.us, Commentary by Ted Lipien, September 16, 2009, San Francisco — Censorship from Russia and China comes home to America in profit-oriented and staying-in-the-market-at-any-co-st decisions by American businesses and sometimes even US government agencies, as FreeMediaOnline.org, a San Francisco-based media freedom nonprofit, has been documenting and reporting. Few ...
How Self-Censorship Works - Putin, GQ, and US Taxpayer-Supported Radio Libe
2009-09-15 08:46:00 Censorship and self-censorship have become a permanent feature of the media scene in Russia under Mr. Putin’s rule. Many Americans, however, were surprised last week that this kind of censorship with origins in Moscow has now reached corporate boardrooms in their own country and even put limits on news generated by US taxpayer supported Radio ...
Sai Baba censorship of facts, spreading of half-truths and untruth
2009-09-13 15:47:00 Everyone who stays at – or even visits – a Sathya Sai Baba ashram must tread most cautiously both literally and figuratively. The excreta of rubbish-scrounging pi-dogs and troops of monkeys are hardly a problem compared to the conspiracies of silence and secrecy which are enforced on all who enter there so as to keep ...
Self-Censorship About Putin at Condé Nast GQ Magazine, Limited Coverage by
2009-09-06 05:49:00 The popular New York blog site Gawker is reporting that “in an act of publishing cowardice, Condé Nast has gone to extraordinary lengths to prevent Russians from reading a “GQ” article criticizing Vladimir Putin.” Condé Nast publishes such widely read magazines as “Vanity Fair,” “The New Yorker,” and “Vogue.” In Russia, it publishes “GQ,” ...
President George W. Bush II President Barack Hussein Obama Wishes To Take O
2009-08-29 05:27:00 Troubling Thought — What, EXACTLY, Constitutes A “Cyber Emergency”? That’s correct, folks — many of we “Civil Libertarian Liberal” types are more than a LITTLE bit concerned over a newly-proposed Senate bill (55 pages — S.773) designed to give the... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Muzzling social media - Censorship by the Medium?
2009-07-14 10:41:00 As someone involved with Social Media, how comfortable are you with pushing the boundaries of the channel? Are you the sort who takes a look at what you can do and then plod along doing just that? In which case, there is enough and more already available to keep you happily occupied for the rest of your lifetime. Or are you the sort who, having quickly discovered the possibilities, pushes on to innovatively make the medium your own? In the second case, how would you feel if the medium in question (or its representatives) took you on or worse, censored your innovation? I’m guessing here, but you are likely to end up as a rather bitter user (make that an ex-user)! It doesn’t have to be something illegal or expressly banned. Any marketer or even user who goes down that route is clearly courting controversy, trouble or both. But what if it is a fresh new approach or a revolutionary new usage which was not intended by the founders? In the sense that although it was not part of the or...
By: WATblog
Twitter Friday: hashtag Marketing vs Spam vs Censorship
2009-07-06 16:29:00 Due to server problems we could not publish the Twitter Friday column last week. Now we’re back up. So here it is. Sorry for the inconvenience. Some #moonfruit anybody? Yesterday’s no name is today’s superstar when it comes to effective so called “hashtag” Twitter marketing. It’s goal is to make it to the Twitter.com homepage popular ... Related posts:Twitter Friday: One Year of Twitter ParticipationTwitter Friday: Oprah’s KFC Coupons Congested TwitterTwitter Friday: 15 Tools Lists, Twitter Business & Social Life Resources
By: SEO Blog
Support Gay Rights, Not Censorship
2009-06-30 04:14:00 http://www.flickr.com/photos/kc-jc/ / CC BY 2.0 As we remember Stonewall and the beginning of the modern gay rights movement, the progressive community is understandably frustrated with the pace of our administration in bringing about real change. They have a point. Enough already with the military’s ridiculous “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. And it’s about time we legalize gay marriage. Yet after the stunning parades this weekend and the first official recognition of the movement by a sitting working US President, I’m filled with more hope than ever before. Which is why I didn’t allow my blood pressure to rise when WFLA/News Channel 8 aired an “it would be disturbing if it weren’t so silly” documentaryinfomercial Saturday night about wicked gays trying to silence Christians. I urged my fellow libs to take deep breaths and see this program for what it was – a spoiled brat stomping his feet and holding his breath ...
China's Netizens Declare they will Fight Back vs Censorship
2009-06-24 02:16:00 With the protests in Iran, there has been a lot of discussion in the news of late about the power of technology in circumventing government control and censorship. Of course no one knows this kind of censorship better than Chinese netizens, especially after these past few weeks that saw the blocking of popular social media sites and the introduction of the 'Green Dam' filtering software.in the face of such censorship, some more creative Chinese netizens (I have no idea who, or how many) have used Google Docs to release a declaration of war against this government imposed internet filtering.
MailCloak SMB ? Thwarts Internet Censorship and Email Eavesdropping
2009-06-15 11:00:00 Global Web Security Systems (gWebs Systems Ltd. Pte.) announced the release of their new MailCloak SMB and MailCloak PRO email encryption products. Both products augment today’s most popular email systems with strong email encryption — stopping governments, hackers, big-tech and other eavesdroppers in their tracks. MailCloak protects individual email messages by using advanced open-source algorithms ...
By: Gadget Mania
China's 'Green Dam' Censorship Software Looks Pretty Damn Lame
2009-06-10 06:50:00 The Wall Street Journal wrote a piece earlier this week entitled 'China Squeezes PC Makers' where they outlined the Chinese governments' recent requirement that PC makers to ship their machines with internet filtering software. The Green Dam software is intended to filter out explicit language and pornographic images, but early user reports indicate that this software might not be as slick as many might have expected.
Censorship Comes To Online Classifieds
2009-05-14 06:37:00 Craigslist, a dominant player in online classified segment would soon get rid of its “erotic services” section.This would in turn be replaced by a section called Adult Services with heavy moderation. This means all ads under the section would attract moderation before being published which in turn would lead to higher costs and slow postings. This comes in the wake of serious charges being framed against craigslist as various cases cropped up revealing the use of online classified as brothel and murder centric purposes despite the use of social moderation on site. The major heat turned on the craigslist when cases of violent crime erupted recently and was even termed as “the single largest source of prostitution in the nation” by a Illinois sheriff. Craigslist currently serves billions of page views and has till date published some 1.15 billion classified ads much bigger in size even to print ads. This type of government scrutiny is to make web safer but wou...
By: WATblog
Unblock Internet Censorship
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By: Light Within
Net Censorship In America?
2009-02-18 04:09:00 There has been much made about China’s ‘Great Internet Wall’, a series of (US Built) routers that filter out access to any site that the Chinese government do not deem suitable. I am proud to tell you that Blogger News is included on that list! What about censorship here in the US? Much has been made ...
Is YouTube Automating Censorship For Big Bucks?
2009-01-30 19:38:00 Acclaimed YouTuber, Thunderf00t, along with many other YouTubers are expressing strong concern that YouTube, in an effort to better cater to potential advertisers, has introduced new video management programming which boils down to automatized censorship of materials which may be concerning to advertisers. Here is Thunderf00t on the matter: You can ...
YouTube banned videos: Censorship gone too far?
2009-01-25 14:11:00 -By Luann Dawkins of the Birmingham Community Examiner After numerous reports of videos being banned from YouTube, a Google Global Company, the need for answers became paramount. Researching the videos that currently reside on YouTube took quite some time, they are seemingly endless. At first glance viewers would assume the prevalent theme is one of unity, ...
By: Publius Forum
Sathya Sai Organization and censorship
2009-01-14 12:42:00 Persons mature and fearless enough openly to discuss awkward facts in a helpful and constructive spirit are in great dearth almost everywhere and no less so in Sathya Sai Baba’s ashrams and organization. Sheepishly following is a trait well known in such communities, which are largely self-contained groups with their own internal dos and don’ts, ...
JKL’s Political Wrap of Unnecessary Censorship
2008-11-10 12:19:00 If only the Presidential election speeches were as fun Jimmy Kimmel Live’s Unnecessary Censorship, then maybe I would have watched and paid attention. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fseriouslyomg.com%-2F%3Fp%3D9617'; addthis_title = 'JKL%27s+Political+Wrap+of+Unne-cessary+Censorship'; addthis_pub = 'seriously';
Henry Loomis, Voice of America Director Who Resisted White House Censorship
2008-11-09 00:47:00 FreeMediaOnline.org and Free Media Online Blog November 8, 2008, San Francisco – Henry Loomis, who died Nov. 2 in Jacksonville, Fla., at age 89, was director of the Voice of America (VOA) during the Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations. His obituary was published Nov. 8 in the Washington Post. During his tenure from 1958 to 1965, the VOA Charter ...
Censorship May Open Our Eyes to China
2008-08-17 15:46:00 -By Nancy Salvato Reporters charged with covering the Olympics are now whining about “not knowing what they will be able to cover and not knowing how much the Chinese government will censor their online coverage.” (1) The fact that the mainstream media is even remotely surprised at a Communist Government not allowing complete freedom of the press ...
By: Publius Forum
In China, Censorship is Called Security
2008-08-02 16:04:00 Senator Sam Brownback (Kansas) is warning that China is planning to mount a massive espionage operation on guests staying at major hotels during the upcoming Olympic Games next month. This shouldn’t surprise anyone. Although they consistently deny it, China has a history of spying on both business and government visitors. They also consistently get accused by ...
IOC And China Censorship: What A Kroc.
2008-07-30 23:45:00 The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference. Elie Wiesel When I was maybe 11 or 12, I read about Ray Kroc's founding of McDonalds. Whatever I read made Kroc out to be some sort of saint and even sought to explain away his initial unwillingess to hire African-Americans as not having arisen out of any racism on his part, but out of his realization that the American public was not ready to have Blacks serving them food. I thought Kroc was horrible for taking this position and even worse for trying to spin it. I saw (and still do) Kroc as worse than the racist who would not hire African-Americans at all; Kroc knew his position was morally indefensible, but rather than make an effort to educate or inculcate or use his position for change, he let it all just slide. Stories out today on how the...
By: China Law Blog
CENSORSHIP AT ISRAEL'S HAARETZ NEwSPAPER
2008-06-01 16:28:00 From: Sonja Karkar "Whenever the Western world's press fails to give readers a true picture of what Israel is doing to the Palestinians, one can always rely on the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz to carry the stories. But now, it too is being subjected to censorship and some of its most honest... Click on the headlines to read the full story!
The need to protest
2008-05-27 21:26:00 What is it about society that drives people to protest? Other than for the sake of being there and actually experiencing a protest, I’ve never felt compelled to take to the streets to stand up for what I believe in. I wonder, though, had I grown up in Thailand rather than the UK, if perhaps ...
Organisations in Sweden 83 - Statens biografbyrå Film Censorship in Sweden
2008-05-21 18:21:00 Organisations in Sweden 83 Film Censorship in Sweden Statens biografbyrå Film database The database contains 35841 films classified by Statens biografbyrå since January 1st 1956. Barntillåten= Allowed for all ages; Förbjuden= Not allowed for public showing; Klipp = Cut. For audiences over the age of 15, the only scenes that may be banned are such where "the events are depicted in such a manner and in such a context as to have a brutalizing effect. The assessment shall take particular account of whether the film contains explicit or protracted scenes of severe violence to people or animals or depicts sexual violence or coercion or presents children in pornographic situations." Films must not be approved for children under the age of 15 if they are liable to cause children in the relevant age group mental harm. Apart from films that are passed for universal viewing, the age limits for the different categories are 7, 11 and 15. Children under the age of 7, who are...
Anti-Censorship ads
2008-05-13 15:03:00 ?A censura nunca desiste. Ela sempre volta disfarçada. 3 de Maio Dia Mundial da Liberdade de Imprensa.? ?The censorship never gives up. It always return disguised. 3th of May, world day for the freedom of press.? Advertising Agency : Africa Propaganda Advertiser: Associação Brasileira de imprensa
By: Ad Sneeze
Nigeria films: censorship argument
2008-05-12 22:08:00 Source: All Africa A couple of interesting articles about film censorship in Nigeria. Nigeria: Kannywood - Why They Must Be Censored http://allafrica.com/stories/20-0804290626.html Daily Trust (Abuja) OPINION 29 April 2008 Muhammad Mahmud Nigeria: Censorship And Film Development Issues in Kano (1) http://allafrica.com/stories/20-0804220495.html
Blame Cana? no, wait a minute
2008-05-12 19:44:00 In South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, there?s a scene where some of the characters sing a song called ?Blame Canada? in response to the trouble that their children have been getting into after watching the movie Terrance and Phillip: Asses of Fire. Imagine, for a minute, that South Park is set in Thailand. What ...
Mr. Rogers - Unnecessary Censorship
2008-05-03 00:35:00 Jimmy Kimmel Presents the 40 year Mr. Rogers Anniversary Edition.Enjoy your Weekend! SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Mr. Rogers - Unnecessary Censorship", url: "http://videospills.com/mr-roge-rs-unnecessary-censorship-very--funny" });
By: VideoSpills.com
How China Leads the World in Web Censorship
2008-05-02 16:01:00 Just in the time for the Olympics, the Chinese government has proved itself to be a pioneer as well as a top exporter in cutting-edge online censorship methods. And Western firms still give Beijing their active support. more… Baiting the Dragon: German Business Warns of Pushing China too Far Internet Users Strike Back: Chinese Call for Boycott ...
By: 1913 Intel
Trouble In Fijiland-Censorship, That Is
2008-05-02 09:23:00 The Fiji islands have been taken over by members of the military who are contnuing their effort to end democracy on the islands. The military government defied an order from the High Court and deported the Australian publsiher of the nation’s leading newspaper. The oup-installed gov ernment claimed publisher Evan Hannah was a threat to ...
Activist faces 15 years for sit-down protest
2008-04-26 17:08:00 Have you ever been in the cinema when the Thai national anthem plays and you?ve seen someone not stand up? I have, a couple of times — and it was Thai people, not foreigners. I?ve also seen people not stop in the street or at the BTS station when the anthem has played. There are some ...
At least 100,000 migrant workers in Phuket
2008-04-25 21:10:00 I?ve been writing about immigrant workers a lot recently. It?s not that I feel some sort of satisfaction by criticizing the police or the government, but I think it?s important to highlight the hypocrisy of the government?s recent attempts to curb the flow of illegal Burmese laborer entering Thailand. The 54 Burmese migrants who died in ...
Technology to Circumvent Censorship (Part 2)
2008-04-24 13:56:00 Back in March I blogged on a Technology to Circumvent Censorship. I actually expected some dialogue on this but today somebody posted an interesting comment, I think is worth reading. Just click the link above and look at the second comment Roger
Cracking the 'Great Firewall' of China's Web censorship
2008-04-23 05:08:00 HONG KONG - If an Internet user in China searches for the word 'persecution,' he or she is likely to come up with a link to a blank screen that says 'page cannot be displayed.
By: Get rich
Human trafficking? What human trafficking?
2008-04-22 20:07:00 It has taken the death of 54 Burmese migrants to provoke the government to redraft a law prohibiting human trafficking. The way the law is set up at the moment, the Prevention and Suppression of Human Trafficking Act is ineffective. The National Operation Center on Human Trafficking is part of the Ministry of Social Development and ...
Don't Get Mad. Get Vlad.
2008-04-19 16:40:00 Russian ex-KGB thug "Vlad the Impaler" Putin shuts down a Moscow newspaper that reported Putin had secretly jettisoned his wife for a 24-year-old Olympic gymnast. Putin denied the speculation yesterday. ?I have always disliked those who, with their infected noses and erotic fantasies, break into other people?s private affairs.? NYT Here's Russia's Interfax version. Pravda 1 Pravda 2 No mention in Tass (I still call it Tass even though it is now Itar-Tass) The Moscow newspaper editor has disappeared; perhaps spirited to a Gorky psych "hospital" for "therapy." More Alina Kabayeva photos here and here. ABC News should be grateful Putin isn't prez here...
By: Chickaboomer
Free Hu Jia
2008-04-19 10:39:00 Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia was on April 3 sentenced to three-and-a-half years imprisonment for ?inciting subversion of state power and the socialist system?. For years, Hu Jia has been working in the name of human rights, often coming into conflict with the Chinese government. There have been numerous attempts to silence Hu Jia. Along ...
Schism: A Muslim?s video response to Geert Wilders? anti-Qur?an film Fitna
2008-04-14 06:01:00 Barry Duke of The Freethinker writes: “IT had to happen ? a Saudi man has hit back at films criticising Islam in a Fitna-style video which portrays Christianity as a religion of violence. The film, entitled Schism, was made by Raed al-Saeed. It splices together Bible verses and Iraq war images - including British soldiers beating civilians. Other ...
Canadian Heritage Minister hates censorship bill C-10, says Senator
2008-04-11 21:52:00 Heritage Minister Josée Verner hates bill C-10, according to a comment made by Conservative Senator David Angus. A member of the Senate committee on banking, trade and commerce, Angus was listening to arguments against the proposed film censorship law from Canadian film producers when he committed a classic political faux pas?he said something incriminating while his microphone was still on. "The minister agrees. She told me she hates the law," said Angus to a colleague, as his voice was still being streamed live on the internet. "What we want is a sort of moratorium?" As an experienced politician, Angus took the high road when asked about his comments. Standing strong in the face of incriminating evidence, he denied everything. "I did not quote the minister because I did not even talk to the minister," he told CBC News. "I haven't heard myself say [the comment] and I'm certainly not acknowledging that I said it." What was he thinking? That as an unelected Senator appointed fo...
The Words They Are A-Changin?
2008-04-08 21:52:00 Our ‘culture’ consists of the knowledge and values transmitted by our language. In the process of learning language, we learn the meanings that other people have ascribed to particular words and phrases. “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean ? neither ...
By: Uncommon Sense
Anvil hacked 3X in 11 days
2008-04-05 10:06:00 Yes, the Anvil was hacked yet again yesterday morning. That makes three times in the past 11 days. Do not panic. I can and will weather the storm. I fully expect such attempts to continue, just as all the other forms of censorship and abuse have come my way since going ...
Censorship alive and well under Bush
2008-04-04 09:48:00 U.S. Funded Health Search Engine Blocks 'Abortion' | Threat Level from Wired.com A U.S. government-funded medical information site that bills itself as the world's largest database on reproductive health has quietly begun to block searches on the word "abortion," concealing nearly 25,000 search results.One of my favorite hypocrisies of the Bush administration is the global war for freedom and democracy while fighting a domestic war against freedom and democracy. One thing we want to absolutely make sure of, and that is not to educate people. Telling people the truth will only get them into trouble, and certainly anything we think might be morally objectionable should be hidden.What's most amazing to me is that this sort of thing actually has support in the US. One wonders how George can maintain, even at this late date, a 28% approval rating. This is why. He is still appealing to this lowest common denominator. There are still a pretty large group of people in the US who ...
By: Markism Explored
Emperor Capello Manager of England MI5 BBC Censorship
2008-03-31 23:57:00 Despite heavy censorship at the BBC by MI5, we here at the IrishBlog can now exclusively reveal, that far from being highly competent, Capello is in fact a fraud and a complete phoney. Tired of feeling positive toward the same manager for more than three months, English fans have concluded that abuse and mockery are what the coach of the national side needs as soon as possible if he fails to win his first friendly and meet their unrealistic expectations.The British press, reflecting as accurately as ever the groundswell of fickle public opinion, will no longer view the Italian as "cool, suave, collected with a refusal to panic under pressure". Instead, he will be "a sleeping with the fishes unable to show or communicate any enthusiasm indeed anything whatsoever to the English speaking players".We can also reveal that Emperor Capello instead, will be the BBC's next incarnation of Doctor Who. Capello's emissaries are understood to be in advanced discussions with the corporation, wi...
By: Podcast Ireland
[Photoshop] Theme: Unnecessary censorship. Take a wholesome image and censo
2008-03-27 09:24:00 YouTube
CNN's Censorship Of Ron Paul Soars To New Heights
2008-03-25 03:07:00 Now that there are only four presidential candidates left in the race - two Democrats, Senator's Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton; and two Republicans, Senator John McCain and Congressman Ron Paul - you would think that CNN would finally have to shrug their shoulders and actually post the truth. You'd think now that Paul is no longer one of 10, or one of 5 - now that he's the only other Republican candidate left, they'd have to finally acknowledge him. You'd think wrong. On CNN's Election Center homepage today, the snapshot above is what they actually have up. Instead of placing Ron Paul next to John McCain, CNN has placed John McCain's head higher than all the other candidates (Democratic and Republican) with the caption PRESUMPTIVE NOMINEE below him; and Mike Huckabee, who dropped out of the race this month, is in the place where Ron Paul belongs, with a stamp that lets you know Huckabee's OUT.
Qtel Censorship
2008-03-21 06:07:00 Nigel has an interesting post on Qatar internet censorship on Qatar living. His post follows the story that Qtel have blocked parts of facebook - not inflammatory material or pornography but an application which allows you to show miniature pictures of your friends! Presumably a mistake - again! Unfortunately, Qtel can rarely be bothered to rectify it's mistakes.Qatar Visitor FriendsQatar JobsFind the best deal, compare prices and read what other travellers have to say about QatarTagsQatar censorship
By: Qatar Visitor
Russian Protestant and Muslim groups want cartoon channel shutdown for airi
2008-03-19 05:37:00 CBC reports that Russian Protestant and Muslim groups are calling for the shutting down of a Russian cartoon channel, 2X2, for airing programs such as South Park, which these groups have deemed to be anti-religious and to promote homosexuality. 2X2 is standing its ground. A spokesperson responded to the demands by pointing out that Russia is a secular ... |
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