The Modern Classic Reader Society honored a number of the gay novels that have been state censored or ostracized by the publiic and those of succeeding writers inspired by them. It also honored G. Roger Denson’s novel Voice of Force as its 2009 pick, a story about an openly gay writer who finds that, when his friendship with a straight opera tenor ends with the tenor’s murder, his writing is indicted by the media as symptomatic of his predation of heterosexual men and is used in his trial... Read Full Story
According to the New York Times, "The Grass-Mud Horse" is a mythical creature whose name in Chinese sounds like "fuck your mother". These horses face a problem: invading river crabs that are devouring their grassland. In spoken Chinese, river crab sounds very much like harmony, which in Chinas cyberspace has become a synonym for censorship. Censored bloggers often say their posts have been harmonized — a term directly derived from President Hu Jintaos regular exhortations for Chinese... Read Full Story
Author: Brian D. Hill
USWGO’s founder Brian D. Hill is tired of those opposing the truth attempting to censor the truth or those at least that speak parts of the truth. After I went to Pastor Manning’s YouTube page I found out that after people constantly reporting his videos he only had 2 uploads left and he said after being suspended 3 times (either he was suspended 3 times or they were warnings) he said he weren’t gonna post his free speech videos anymore. It makes me wanna beat up all... Read Full Story
Great Firewall of China I was very intrigued to stumble upon this web service which offers bloggers and web developers a tool for determining if their site's url is blocked by the censors employed by the Chinese Communist Party in an effort to control the information made available to its country's citizens via the internet. I have two primary blogs on which I write frequently about issues of international politics, economics and globalization more generally. This is one of those blogs, and... Read Full Story
As I post this, I was also sent a warning letter that I will be next. --- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Release – Feb 10, 2009 – We believe that filmmaker-activist Luis Moro, administrator for End the US Trade Embargo on Cuba group was censored by Facebook for giving information out, or supplying information in detail about how people can help to pass the bill to allow travel between the United States and Cuba by deleting his account without warning. Los Angeles, Feb 10 / Moro Films LLC has... Read Full Story
Image via CrunchBase Mapping China and the law
I found this posting from the Ogle Earth weblog, a Google Earth development community, particularly interesting. I am not surprised that the CCP has grown wary of companies such as Google, whose stated goal is to undermine suppression of individual freedom, and I used to believe that Google would never succumb to the pressures that be when pressed about their sensitive technologies. However, I have been very disappointed in the company since... Read Full Story
In this series, I examine the possibility of limiting certain kinds of speech , and especially the possibility of legal limits. As stated in the introductory post in this series , such limits are possible but should be exceptional given the importance of the freedom of speech.
So far, I have looked at two examples: holocaust denial and hate speech . In both cases, I believe that legal limitations are acceptable and even necessary in certain cases or circumstances, but I also pointed out... Read Full Story
HONG KONG —- China's 47 million bloggers are frequently subjected to censorship by their Internet service providers, but politically sensitive material also routinely falls through the cracks as individual companies interpret government guidelines in their own way, a new report shows. In the first in-depth report to focus on user-generated content on social media and blogging platforms, researchers found that censorship levels across 15 different Chinese blogging platforms varied even more... Read Full Story
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During a discussion in my English seminar at school we debated over censorship. From The Chronicles of Narnia and Of Mice and Men , many novels treasured by people all over the world get censored all the time. However, books aren’t the only things censored in our society; all sorts of things are censored including music, television, movies, maps, and... Read Full Story
One of the first things I did after moving to San Francisco six years ago was go onto Yelp.com to check out the reviews of my surroundings. I looked up reviews on local restaurants, doctors, supermarkets, hair stylists, stores and tourist attractions. I can remember that I needed to see a dentist and was so new to the city that I had no one to ask. I looked at the reviews on Yelp and chose one that was in my area. I connected with what people were saying about the "gentle dentist." After I... Read Full Story
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