Archive for the ‘Censorship’ Category

The Stream – Mexico’s drug war

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and Rasha Abdulla of the American University in Cairo are with us today on the orange couch. We're talking about Mexico's drug war and May 8 national protest, plus the Turkish internet censorship debate.

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The Stream - Mexico's drug war

Copyright or Censorship?

It is my contention that spurious accusations of copyright infringement can be used to suppress videos that are not liked, in certain circles, and that YouTube's reporting procedure favours the accuser over the accused, who is not even given the minimum amount of information necessary to be able to challenge any claim, let alone a false one.

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Copyright or Censorship?

Internet Censorship Protests In Turkey

Protesters gathered in over 30 Turkish cities over proposed censorship of websites. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss. Subscribe: bit.ly TYT Mobile: bit.ly On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com On Twitter: twitter.com http://www.theyoungturks.com FREE Movies(!): http://www.netflix.com Read Ana's blog and subscribe at: http://www.examiner.com Read Cenk's Blog: http://www.huffingtonpost.com ISTANBUL — Thousands of people in more than 30 cities around Turkey took to the streets on Sunday to protest a new system of filtering the Internet that opponents consider censorship

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Semi-naked women protest censorship in Ukraine

A group of female activists in Ukraine marked the country's National Journalists Day with a protest against the practice of receiving payments in exchange for positive news coverage. Waving placards reading "How much for the truth?", members of the women's protest group FEMEN also chanted slogans against corrupt journalists. During the protest the women tore off their jeans, leaving them dressed only in bikinis

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Tim Minchin – Censorship

Honestly, So F**king Rock is, I think, better then So Live. Every time I'm looking for a clip of Minchin, I look for it from So F**king Rock.

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Tim Minchin - Censorship