Do you have friends constantly annoying you with Facebook or Change.org petitions about this cause or that?
It seems impossible that hitting a Like button or adding your name to an Internet petition can possibly add up to much.
But it can...
Showing posts with label censorship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label censorship. Show all posts
Monday, February 6, 2012
Monday, January 30, 2012
Twitter Switches on the Censors
The social networking site Twitter finds itself between a rock and a hard place in foreign countries where speech isn't always free. On the one hand, Twitter's leadership doesn't want the whole site banned in those countries. On the other, what's a dictatorial government going to do with a social networking site that helps stir up civil dissent? The answer: Ban it. But that's not good for business.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Twitter will censor tweets, but will try really hard not to
via gigaom.com
Twitter said Thursday that it has made changes to its network that will allow it to remove tweets in a specific country if required to do so by law, but assured users that it will try hard to avoid having to do so because “the tweets must flow” — and said it will be as transparent as possible if and when it has to remove something. The company said laws around what content is legal to distribute differ from country to country, and the new system will allow it to remove tweets only for users in a specific area, rather than censoring the entire network. But no matter how Twitter phrases it, this news is going to concentrate attention on one thing: that a corporate entity, however well-meaning, controls which tweets are seen or not seen.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Why I’m fighting SOPA: We need a solution, but a better solution
via gigaom.com
The current SOPA legislation, which is being debated everywhere from Capitol Hill to the Hollywood Hills, is not the answer that creative rights holders — nor advocates of the DMCA and other free internet policy proponents — are seeking. Instead, we need to find a more elegant middle ground, with policy that encourages online creativity and economic growth while also protecting the intellectual property of musicians, filmmakers, and others. It’s not as exciting to advocate for a compromise, but that’s what we need.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
This App Makes It Super Easy To Yell At Your Senator About Internet Censorship
To fight the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), as many as 7,000 websites are going dark at midnight. Even Google is changing its home page tomorrow.
These websites can now link to a tool called StoptheWall.us that makes it super easy for people to call their senators to yell about SOPA's sister act PIPA, which is up for a Senate vote on January 23rd.
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