It never hurts to ask. Representatives of Reporters Without Borders and Amnesty International have written the CEOs of Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft to see if they would please cease censoring things for just one day.
China Resumes Web Censorship Tradition
When people have guests, they tend to shape up. Parents stop yelling, couples stop arguing, and maybe children don’t make as much of a mess. Then, when the guests leave, everything goes back to normal, and it appears that China is heading in this direction with respect to banning websites.
FCC Could Lose Broadcast Censorship Authority
The current FCC is using its numbered days to petition the Supreme Court to uphold its authority over fleeting material in broadcast programming. If Chairman Kevin Martin & Co. fail to get a sympathetic ear from the highest court, the fat lady could be singing one foul tune as failed regulators exit stage right, and that might be a good thing.
Olympics Rings Up China Censorship Deal
Internet access for reporters covering the Summer Olympics in China suffers the usual blocking instead of the open surfing the press expected to find; they can thank Olympic Committee members for this.
IOC Watching China For Internet Censorship During Games
The International Olympic Committee will look into the censorship of the Internet that the media is using to cover the Beijing Olympics.China has pledged to the media that there would be no censorship of the Internet during the Games and rolled back regulations in January that put restrictions on the foreign press.
Pie Throwers Accuse YouTube Of Censorship
A—which adjective goes with this group…radical? Extremist? Keystone-Koppish?—12 Monkeys-esque environmental group called The Greenwash Guerillas have accused YouTube of censoring a video of them throwing pies at Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas Friedman. If you haven’t heard of New York Times columnist Friedman via his lengthy journalism career, you may have heard of him because of his book The World Is Flat, which got a lot of attention last year.
Google Complains About Censorship Charge
After blowing away ads aimed at criticizing MoveOn.org by name, Google’s public policy wonks fired back and asserted that trademarks, not politics, played a role.
Blip.tv Says Response Better Than Censorship
Charles Hope of Blip.tv posted an email exchange he had with a site visitor who complained about some controversial videos hosted on the site.
AT&T Admits To More Censorship
What has become the Net Neutrality proof of concept AT&T hoped wouldn’t come about – the censoring of a band with a cult following – is now no longer an isolated incident.
Flickr Criticized For Regional Censorship
Yahoo’s Flickr is the latest target of criticism after restricting access to erotic art photos in Hong Kong. Though Internet companies self-censoring in certain countries is not a new dilemma, this incident coincides with a blogger that faces fines for just linking to offending material.