Showing posts with label free speech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label free speech. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 09, 2015

Tweet of the Day: Comparing Gollum with Politicians is a No-No

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A Turkish doctor reportedly lost his job and face trial for comparing the Turkish leadership with 'Lord of the Rings' fictional cha...
Thursday, January 15, 2015

The French Government Uses Free Speech as Pretext to Suppress Free Speech

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At the Ron Paul Institute, Daniel McAdams comments that the French government has used the Charlie Hebdo incident as a convenient excuse to...
Wednesday, October 03, 2012

The Information Age and the Philippine Cybercrime Law

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Amidst fiery protest by many Philippine cyberspace users, the newly enacted Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 RA 10175 took effect today (...
Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Bloomberg Censored in China

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China’s authoritarian tendencies can still be seen from her continuing censorship of Bloomberg which seems in retaliation for the latter’s r...
Friday, June 01, 2012

War on the Internet: 377 Words to use for Uncle Sam to Watch You

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Free speech undermines the power of centralized government. So governments will make any excuses to work on repressing free speech. One wa...
Thursday, May 24, 2012

Politicization of the Entertainment Industry

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While I am glad to see that the quality of singing artists seems to have immensely improved from participants around the world including the...
Saturday, March 31, 2012

Argentina’s Road to Serfdom: Book Import Bans

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From Cato’s Juan Carlos Hidalgo , The Argentine government has severely restricted the importation of books due to “human health concer...
Saturday, March 03, 2012

Japan’s Speech-jamming gun and Censorship

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From My Fox Orlando , (hat tip Bob Wenzel) Japanese researchers have invented a speech-jamming gadget that painlessly forces people int...
Thursday, January 26, 2012

World Press Freedom Rankings: Philippines 140th

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Reporters without borders recently released the Press Freedom index. The press release goes … This year’s index sees many changes in ...
Thursday, January 19, 2012

Video: What's Wrong with Internet Censorship

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Cato's Julian Sanchez explains what is wrong with internet censorship From Cato : Internet censorship is not the answer to problems of p...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

War on the Internet: Freedom Wins Round One

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Writes Mac Slavo Amid significant pressure from tens of thousands of internet users and major web behemoths like Google, Facebook, and ...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Paul Krugman’s Positive Take on the Blogsphere

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I have been saying that the information or digital age has been changing the way information flows or has been democratizing knowledge. W...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Should Doomsayers Be Censored?

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It had been a calculation error says the California preacher, thus doomsday will be reset on October 21. Booooo! Reports the Yahoo , (bold...
Tuesday, February 01, 2011

Egyptian Revolt: Web Censorship Fails

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Learning from the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia , the Egyptian government swiftly severed web connections . But this hasn’t prevented Egyp...
Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Asia Leads In Web Connectivity

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Asia is the largest and the fastest growing region in terms of web connectivity. That's according to the stats from comScore as shown be...