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SOPA is Dead but Twitter Censors

February 3, 2012 by Lauren MacEwen
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SOPA might be dead but it seems that our favorite social networking known for not censoring is changing its policy. Twitter will now be censoring content in certain countries. Twitter has always had the ability to remove content, which they did. People could report spam or abuse and then the content would be deleted or potentially the... [read more]

Twitter's Tough Balancing Act

January 30, 2012 by Jae Kim
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Twitter users everywhere are reacting to the news, and I've read several articles taking stance on the latest decision by Twitter.  They ranged from good to really bad, and you can find plenty of examples a last couple of days.  After sleeping on Twitter censorship announcement, I wanted to share a few more perspectives on the... [read more]

NDAA Signed: Obama Can Jail You for Tweeting

January 2, 2012 by Tammy Kahn Fennell
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Yes, you read the title right. Land of the Free? President Obama, president of the "land of the free" gave the country a new year's present. On December 31st the American Civil Liberties Union published this... [read more]

Was #Occupywallstreet Censored By Twitter?

October 3, 2011 by Tammy Kahn Fennell
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What exactly makes a trending topic? According to Twitter: Twitter Trends are automatically generated by an algorithm that attempts to identify topics that are being talked about more right now than they were previously. The Trends list is designed to help people discover the 'most breaking' breaking news from across the world, in real-time. The Trends list captures the hottest emerging topics, not just what’s most popular... [read more]

Free Speech and the Internet

August 14, 2011 by Michael Fauscette
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" It's a funny thing about change; large, massive changes are obvious and people can and do choose sides and fight for what they believe. But small, slow, incremental changes often go unnoticed until they have gone so far that it's too late to object." [read more]

No Tweets for You! NFL Bans Tweets Before, During, and After Games

September 2, 2009 by Brian Solis
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SourceOn Monday, the National Football League announced that it will now limit use of social media and networks during the season. Players, coaches, officials, personnel, third-party representatives, and even the media are prohibited from updating their status, blogging, or tweeting 90 minutes before a game until post-game interviews... [read more]

Call to action to stop blocking

August 29, 2009 by Neville Hobson
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Two years ago, my podcasting partner Shel Holtz started a campaign called Stop Blocking as a means of drawing attention to a practice by some organizations to prevent access by employees to wide swathes of content on websites, blogs and other places online.During the past few years, Shel gathered information and published posts on the... [read more]

Revitalizing StopBlocking.org

August 28, 2009 by Shel Holtz
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With only so many hours in a day, I have to choose where to commit my energy. As a result, some projects take a back seat. But after pondering two sets of data, I'm recommitting myself to my Stop Blocking initiative. But it won't do any good if I do this by myself. I need help to keep the wiki updated. Bear with me, and I'll explain... [read more]

Microblogs & Nuclear Explosions; Censorship is harder than you'd think.

August 27, 2009 by Rand Han
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If you've been following our blog, you might read my previous post on one of the China top micro blogging sites, fanfou.com, suddenly became inaccessible at the beginning of July.Fanfou is still inaccessible out of no reason, and the situation seems to become worse and worse. Two more popular Chinese micro blogging sites — Digu.... [read more]

USMC and ESPN Doing it Wrong or are We Just Quick to Judge?

August 8, 2009 by JacobMorgan
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You may have heard recently that the USMC and ESPN have really come down hard on social networking sites.  The USMC banned the use of social networks entirely and ESPN has implemented extremely strict guidelines that focus mainly on helping ESPN: “The first and only priority is to serve ESPN sanctioned efforts, including... [read more]

AP to Restrict Content Use on Blogs

June 16, 2008 by Nathania Johnson
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The Associated Press apparently is not to thrilled about how bloggers use their content. So they're setting out to establish standards by which their content can appear on blogs, according to the New York Times. I can see both sides of the issues. Bloggers (myself included) don't often have the same contacts and journalistic skills that... [read more]

Twitter: Conversation Starter

December 21, 2007 by Dave Fleet
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The Halton Catholic District School Board stirred up controversy this week when it banned Phillip Pullman's fantasy book "The Golden Compass" and two other books in the "His Dark Materials Trilogy." According to a board statement, "Philip Pullman's trilogy of atheistic ideology, carefully couched within the realm of fantasy for young... [read more]

In the digital age, burning a press backfires

November 25, 2007 by Angelo Fernando
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The burning of a printing press is a ridiculous act in today's climate where news and information doesn't depend on ink and paper. So when a leading newspaper, Leader Publications was attacked on Wednesday (Nov 21st 2007), the paper went on and published its Nov. 25th edition as usual — online —by early Sunday morning.... [read more]

Our filters have determined that you are an asshole

February 19, 2007 by Jevon MacDonald
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What do you do when you dont trust your employees or the people they choose to give their email addresses to? In the case of WatsonWyatt, you tell them they are bad people, who use unacceptable language.I used to run web-based forums 7-8 years ago, and we originally tried to filter swear words, but in the funny way that humans do,... [read more]

An Open Letter to Google Founders— to save Google in China and save Internet in China

February 9, 2007 by Jeff Nolan
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This guy in China who posted an open letter to Googles founders has a cool idea. Mao suggests Google can restore frequently talked about corporate values by putting some of their bundles of cash to developing anti-censorship tools and services for everyone in the world who suffers under government censorship.Meta: An Open Letter to... [read more]

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