Tag: Censorship
Nobel speech censored by Chinese television
"The Nobel Foundation has terminated a contract with TV 4 after it has emerged that its chairman's speech was censored by Chinese television.""The Nobel Foundation chairman, Marcus Storch, held a speech at the Nobel dinner in December 2007 addressing freedom of the press and...
Canada TV Tax Credits: A Comedy of Errors
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorNoted Authour Michael Coren states (in Italics):"Authentic censorship is a problem in Canada" To that I say to Michael, I do not know if we have a censorship problem...
Suppression Already Exposed By Inconvenient ‘Ex...
OPINIONBen Stein’s movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed has made its case even before its first public showing.By ALEXANDER "The movie, which opens this week, is about science clashing with teachers who...
Bjork stands by borked Tibet statements
Bjork offended some of her Chinese fans with an impromptu Tibet protest during a concert earlier this month, leading Chinese officials to threaten a pop star crackdown of their own. Now, the Icelandic pixie of...
deviantART: False Advertising?
Looked up the definition of "deviant" lately? i started an account at deviantart.com a few weeks back only to find that, like flickr (from which i was looking for refuge), the TOU (Terms Of Use) "agreement" is......
Staging violence in Tibet Protest with 'Photoshop...
Fake photos are the holy grail for reshaping the world. Today it is harder to believe that a photo is an authentic document describing what should be an event witnessed by an impartial photographer. A photo has lost...
Reporters Without Borders demonstrates in Olympia...
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China - Olympic Games
24 March 2008
"Reporters Without Borders demonstrates in Olympia at start of Olympic torch relay to Beijing
Three Reporters Without Borders representatives, including secretary-general Robert Ménard,...
Picasso rated R for Greek students
An exhibition of work by Picasso in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki has been judged unsuitable for high school students following complaints. The director of the secondary education in East Thessaloniki, Mr...
"No Good Deed..." - The Trouble of Raising Awaren...
As soon as I saw the look on his face, I knew something was wrong.
I was in a DHL shipping office in Dhaka City. Just outside was a dusty
back-alley full of the pungent aroma that can only be caused by the
mixture of open sewers and rotting garbage. Inside, however, was...
Ban? Ban? Ban?
Hosni Mubarak has requested we "discuss" (don't laugh yet) Constitutional Amendments. These "changes" aim at enforcing his ruthless Regime and giving him even more power over a "police state". The "motive" is to maintain pressure over "a powerful Islamist Threat". Again. Here...
‘Please censor the Internet to protect my child...
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AN OPINION.
There are people, convinced that they know, on the ground of their own morality and beliefs, what is nefaste for me when I visit sex, porno,...
On Greg Felton's Speech at the Vancouver Public L...
I got thrown out. I got thrown out of the Library - a first for me.Here’s the background: fervent anti-”Zionist” (wink wink, nudge nudge) Greg Felton gave a speech tonight at the invitation of the Vancouver Public Library. I’ve written about that here.My plan before...
DonkeyStream ? ? Is Now Public loosing thousands ...
We made this site (Now Public) what it is today. When I logged on
almost a year ago, the only banners where the ones that showed us - the
citizen journalists - growing numbers and countries... very
prideful...
Web Site Shut Down Raises Censorship Questions
The Feb. 15th order by a Federal judge, which attempted to shut down an entire web site by wiping its name from the Internet Domain Name system, is raising serious censorship questions. The judge issued the order at the request of the Swiss-based Julius Baer Bank, which...
what is imperialism- in terms of north korea
from a dictionary, imperialism is the remote adminstration of a superpower over a country, this can mean troops, trading merchants, regular visits by business people, and on long term basis, installation of foreign...
