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| Articles about Censorship |
| Age of Conan: Age of Censorship part 2 | | 2008-07-11 01:33:00 | | Age of Conan Primetime population, 1-3 July 2008 (Europe) Inserito originariamente da Abriael Looks like Funcom didn't take lightly the data I posted on Age of Conan's european servers primetime population. So you think they set about to solve the problem? Maybe, but in a quite strange way. As of yesterday's patch an undocumented change to AoC's UI actively removed the "Next" button from the search players menu, making it impossible to count the characters online at any given moment by counting the pages displayed after a search and multiplying them by the 50 names displayed on each page. As of now, search just displays the first 50 "hits" and the rest overflows, lost to the eye of the beholder and impossible to reach. I'm pretty sure that there's no other way to interpret this kind of action as anything else than a lame attempt to prevent people from gathering and publishing data on server population.I'm honestly completely debaffled at the fact that Funcom, instead of using t | | By: Classy Gamer | | |
| | Age of Censorship! | | 2008-07-04 20:56:00 | | Age of Censorship Inserito originariamente da Abriael Looks like Funcom's overzaelous moderation on the Age of Conan forums is beginning to border on clear cut censorship of any possible criticism, even in the form of concern by one or more paying customers.They seem to be so absolutely frightened by any kind of bad press, that much frightened that they'll go to any lenght to try and silence voices that could convey to the general public the fact that many of their servers are struggling. Luckily for us, their pretty paranoid control can't extend beyond their official forums, so the rest of the internet is ready to talk and discuss about what Age of Conan lacks. As you probably noticed, what it lacks the most is people (at least on many servers).This evening I posted what I honestly feel was a pretty honest but very civil request on the official Funcom forum for them to look in the server population problems and try and find a solution. You can find the original thread here, an | | By: Classy Gamer | | |
| | Canada Proposes Expanding Censorship for Film Tax Credit Recipients | | 2008-06-05 23:00:00 | | A few days ago we wrote about some of the reasons why film tax credits are poor tax policy. They are corporate welfare for a profitable industry, they almost never weigh costs and benefits after enactment, they distort economic behavior, and they paper over deeper business tax climate problems. We also mentioned censorship—Canada has started vetting movies financed with film tax credits and other subsidies. The recent proposal to expand this censorship in Canada (spearheaded by the Minister of Heritage) has caused an uproar:The mayors of Canada's largest cities say their economies would take a major blow if the federal government is allowed to deny tax credits to film and TV productions it deems too violent or pornographic. "We share a concern. That concern is about our economy," Toronto Mayor David Miller, who was speaking on behalf of the mayors, told the Senate banking committee yesterday."But it is also about Canadians' continued ability to tell our own stories | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
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| | Canadian Film Tax Credits Lead to Censorship | | 2008-05-02 23:00:00 | | Whenever government gets its hands on something, it will attempt to control more and more of it, typically with purse strings. A New York Times article today shows how politicians in Canada are trying to use the subsidies of film tax credits to censor film content by giving only certain films the handout. Here's a clip.Most Canadian films and non-news television programs apply for a government cash payment, which is described as a tax credit, to offset some of their labor costs. Sandra Cunningham, the president of Strada Films of Toronto and chairwoman of the Canadian producers’ association, said the payments typically cover about 10 to 12 percent of a production’s budget.To receive that money, filmmakers apply in advance for a certificate declaring their project sufficiently Canadian. The government’s payment, however, does not arrive until the film or television series is completed and it is again reviewed.It is that second review that the government hopes to expand | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | Censorship Reports | | 2008-04-19 01:36:50 | | According to the OpenNet Initiative:
“Access to Internet content in Jordan remains largely unfettered, with filtering selectively applied to only a small number of sites. However, media laws and regulations encourage some measure of self-censorship in cyberspace, and citizens have reportedly been questioned and arrested for Web content they have authored.”
The report also says that there [...] | | By: And Far Away... | | |
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| Chinese Government Expands Censorship to America | | 2008-04-17 20:00:00 | | China has been in the news a lot lately. As she prepares to host the summer 2008 Olympics many are decrying the government's infringements on human rights and their involvement in Darfur, Sudan, Africa. Today the Chinese government is angry with CNN for calling its government as a "bunch of goons and thugs." China refused to accept this apology. Ummm, freedom of speech and freedom of the press?? It's obvious those are big no-nos in China if their government is trying to stop CNN from its thoughts on China. Citizens in China are censored from CNN anyway.Nice. In the mean time, freedoms of speech and press are going to live on in America, thank you.Sign A Petition!Reporters Without Borders has been outspoken about China's repressiveness in media (and otherwise). The activist group has a petition to world leaders to boycott the summer 2008 Olympics which can be signed here. They are working hard to make sure Olympic sponsors measure up to human rights expectations.Fifteen thousand have | | By: Life Consistency | | |
| | Richard Warman's Censorship Sideshow | | 2008-04-09 13:37:00 | | Richard Warman: His best side.That self-serving legal maladroit Richard Warman is making waves again with his so-called Maximum Disruption Campaign. The latest has the anti-rightwing, anti-conservative, anti-freedom of speech legal beagle launching an all-out attack against a number of conservative writers and internet forums.It’s no secret that Warman is only interested in getting his ugly mug in front of the cameras and that his intentions have nothing to do with erasing websites whose content or subject matter fall into his definition of ‘hate’. This employee of Canada’s Department of National Defense (feel safer now?) and long-time lackey of the Canadian Human Rights Commission has a rap sheet full of attempts at imposing censorship.Here's a response from one of the targets named in the mad rush to censor. As posted on Free Dominion:Mark Fournier Free Dominion April 09, 2008 "Silence! I sue you!" Dichmed - the litigating censorship bomber The silent sound of censorship has | | By: The Moderate Separatist | | |
| | Censorship alive and well under Bush | | 2008-04-04 02:48:23 | | 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 believe | | By: Markism Explored | | |
| | Proxy - Bypass censorship Tools using proxyTools | | 2007-12-19 04:26:00 | | Anti-censorship tools (proxyTools) consists of a huge Perl application (localProxy) and a set of tools to analyze the user's network (proxies, firewall rules, name servers, etc.). LocalProxy abstracts external services in an uncensored, reliable, fast manner to the localhost, where they may be used by standard clients (Web browsers, Usenet news clients, SOCKS-capable clients, etc.).Various combinations of strategies are tried to ensure the non-censored nature of the information, and multiple, parallel services (e.g. HTTP proxies) are used to ensure reliability and speed. The tools are capable of automating collection of the data required for localProxy. LocalProxy builds a configuration for the user and dynamically adjusts to using the fastest strategies and proxies available to it.The tools are useful for network analysis (firewall rules, proxy capabilities, etc.) independently of localProxy (Freshmeat).The project is of interest to the following groups of people: those who live | | By: Computers & Networking | | |
| | | | | Flickr = Censorship | | 2007-05-16 09:28:07 | |
Just when the outrage over the theft of Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir’s photos by Only-Dreeming was beginning to calm down, Yahoo/Flickr finally reacted.You’d expect that they stand by their paying customer, who got her pictures stolen precisely because she decided to use Flickr to showcase her work, enriching the Flickr website in the process and ultimately benefiting Yahoo as a corporation. But no, instead they behaved just like you’d expect a soulless, gutless, dumb corporation to behave: they stood by another corporation, who probably had its lawyers send Flickr a nasty letter, and screwed the individual customer!
They might have later apologized for this, but what’s a private apology worth, especially considering that Rebekka’s original post, with 450+ comments attached to it has been deleted, apparently forever?
I think Flickr should realize that only by protecting, as much as possible, their users’ expectations of copyright enforcement, they can h | | By: Agylen | | |
| | Ron Paul: Total Victory, Yet Censorship Continues | | 2007-05-09 21:35:05 | | This article from Prisonplanet.com is about the mainstream media’s reluctance to acknowledge Ron Paul as a potential candidate:
Ron Paul emerged from last week’s GOP debate as completely victorious according to every available benchmark and yet there is still a deliberate ploy to push the Texas Congressman to the sidelines on behalf of a terrified corporate media.
Every single major online poll shows conclusively that Ron Paul won the debate by a mammoth margin, trouncing the bought and paid-for shill Neo-Con candidates that the establishment press are sworn to uphold.
Read the rest here. | | By: Ponder This | | |
| | Google Faces Pressure Over Censorship | | 2007-04-13 15:25:00 | | Shareholders will have the opportunity to vote on a proposalduring the upcoming annual meeting that would call on Google totake a strong stance against censorship and abusive regimes.Delving into the mind-numbing forms and filings made by publiclytraded companies is a lot like muckraking. That's a term that hasbeen applied, usually negatively, to journalists over the years.The person with the figurative shovel and a persistent attitudegets tagged with a pejorative just for working hard.Sometimes the old muckrake turns up a nugget of gold, as theNew York Times did when they excavated some valuable bits fromGoogle's 14-A filing with the SEC. While it's fascinating to bereminded, yet again, that Google's billionaire power trio of EricSchmidt, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin will draw a $1 salary,something that has made it onto Google's slate of activitiesfor its annual stockholder meeting is a little more intriguing.The Office of the Comptroller of New York City controls severalpowerful pension funds: police, fire, teachers, and city employeesamong them. They own 486,617 shares of Google's Class A stock,and are using their position to force Google's shareholders toconsider the company's ongoing role in countries that routinelycensor the Internet.Their proposal would require Google's management to help protectthe freedom to access the Internet by individuals in countriesruled by authoritarian governments. The Funds have asked Googlenot to retain personally identifying information "in Internetrestricting countries, where political speech can be treated asa crime by the legal system."Writtten by David A. Utter | Staff WriterNot yet a member to a massive commercial investment program back up by top advertisers worldwide? By simply spending just 5 hours a month, you earn cash online. No fees/cash needed from end users! | | By: Advertising Investment | | |
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