Media Censorship

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Stevenson High School Students Raise Censorship Concerns With Administrators

Freedom Project | December 17, 2009 10:59 PM | Posted 12.18.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Debate, Newspapers, Administration, Chicago, Media Censorship, High School, Media, Censorship, Stevenson High School, Illinois, Chicago News

Evan Ribot said student leaders at the Statesman have given this speech too many times to deaf ears. The Stevenson High School student newspaper sta...

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Put Article 19 into Action in Asia

Libby Liu | Posted 12.10.2009 | World

Read More: Media Censorship, China Government Media, China Censorship, China Technology, China Twitter, China Free Speech, China Government Censorship, World News

Obama called for the lifting of restrictions on the Internet and Twitter in China. Ironically, China's state-run People's Daily online censored these very comments from its translation.

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Olbermann-O'Reilly: Détente We Don't Want

Michelle Schweiger Schecter | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

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A sandbox brawl between Keith and Bill Has left their parents feeling ill They want their boys to get along Yet the ultimate result is quite wrong

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Tell Media: Include Single-Payer in Healthcare Debate

Isabel Macdonald | Posted 08.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Health, Media Censorship, Max Baucus, Single-Payer National Health Insurance, Single Payer Healthcare, Single Payer System, Single Payer, Healthcare Reform, Barack Obama, Healthcare, TV Networks, Media News

The insurance lobbies and many politicians may not want to talk about single-payer. But that makes it all the more important that the media do.

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Internet Censorship Legislation Could Make It Illegal For U.S. Companies To Aid Repressive Governments

The Guardian | Bobbie Johnson and Daniel Nasaw | Posted 07.31.2009 | World

Read More: Google, Internet, Global Online Freedom Act, Computers, Microsoft, Media Censorship, Iran, China, Internet Censorship, Yahoo, World News

Internet activists are urging Barack Obama to pass legislation that would make it illegal for technology companies to collaborate with authoritarian c...

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Dear President Obama: In Talking to China, Remember its People

Rebecca MacKinnon | Posted 03.01.2009 | World

If you really want to take U.S.-China relations to a new level that rises above the day-to-day issues, you need to find new ways to engage the Chinese people themselves -- not just their government.

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Faith! Family! Films! And the Crystal Teddy Goes to...

David Sterritt | Posted 02.12.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Movie Awards, Dr. Ted Baehr, John Templeton Foundation, Coen Brothers, Film, Hollywood, Tim Burton, Faith, Movies, Family, Dvd, There Will Be Blood, Clean Play Dvds, Social Conservatives, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Morality and Films, Media Censorship, Christian Right, Marley & Me, Sweeney Todd, Religious Right Agenda, Censoring Dvd, Movieguide, Censorship, Religious Agenda, Entertainment News

What riles me is the business of peddling movies on DVD after scrubbing them squeaky clean, or as we used to say in pre-digital antiquity, censoring them.

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Media Must Raise, Not Lower The Bar For Palin For Thursday's Debate

Brian Ross | Posted 10.31.2008 | Home

Given that Bush has grounded the ship of state on an iceberg turned loose by global warming, the failure to hold Palin up to the same standards as any other vice presidential candidate would be an act of gross irresponsibility.

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Hardliner Repression of Iranians Online

Elham Gheytanchi | Posted 10.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Media Censorship, Iran, Censorship, Politics News

As Tehran's nuclear crisis grabs headlines, an ominous development is taking place inside Iran: the escalation of state repression against Iranian dissidents online.

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Sex and the Swedish Censor

Jacqueline Leo | Posted 10.09.2008 | Media

Read More: Eva-Britt Svensson, Keira Knightley Airbrushing, Sexploitation, Anorexia, Sex, Sexism, Media Censorship, Ugly Betty, European Fashion Designers, TV Advertising, European Parliament, Carla Bruni, Media News

Although Svennson's initiative is directed at television, it will have a chilling effect on other advertising if it passes Parliament, and it may even affect French and British politics.

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Olympics Committee Admits Internet Censorship Deal With China

ABC News | Posted 08.07.2008 | Media

Read More: China Blocks Internet Access, Olympics Foreign Journalists, Olympics, Media Censorship, Beijing Olympics Internet Access, Censorship, Olympics Media, China, Internet Censorship, Media News

Some International Olympic Committee officials cut a deal to let China block sensitive websites despite promises of unrestricted access, a senior IOC ...

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