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GUWAHATI: Master filmmaker and Padma Vibhushan awardee Adoor Gopalakrishnan on Monday strongly objected to censorship in the country and termed it 'redundant'.

Speaking at an interactive session with the media on Monday, the director said censorship has no validity in a democratic country.

On Sunday evening, Gopalakrishnan was conferred the second Bishwaratna Dr Bhupen Hazarika International Solidarity Award 2015. The award, an initiative of Asom Sahitya Sabha, in association with Numaligarh Refinery Limited, honours cultural and literary icons who contribute to society. The director was presented the award by chief minister Tarun Gogoi.

Gopalakrishnan denounced censor board chief Pahlaj Nihalani's recent decision to ban cuss words in films, terming the move 'ludicrous'. Nihalani had proposed to include the word 'Bombay' in the list of words to be banned.

"I am against censorship. It is a redundant practice. People should decide what to watch and what not to watch. We are a democratic society and such practices are adopted in countries like China. The list of banned cuss words being passed around by the censor board chief is simply ludicrous," he said.

Gopalakrishnan rued that creativity is increasingly being sacrificed at the altar of commercialization and profit.

The filmmaker, who is considered to be one of the finest in the world, expressed his disapproval of the excessive use of violence in some Indian films. He said Indian filmmakers often depict violence to imitate Hollywood trends.

"Parents should discourage children from watching such films. Simply imitating Hollywood is a mistake. American society is quite violent and this is reflected in their movies, but Indian society is not that violent. We still value morality and non-violence. There should be some kind of sensitization at the school-level and children should be encouraged to watch good movies," the director added.

Often credited with changing cinema in his home state of Kerala, Gopalakrishnan urged the state government to execute a clear policy of promoting quality cinema.

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I hope we put ourselves out of business, said Charlie Smith, the pseudonymous head of Great Fire. And he was serious. After all this Chinese Internet monitoring watchdog GreatFire.org is no ordinary case.

Started in 2011 by three anonymous individuals tired of Chinas approach to the internet,itinitiallytracked the effects of the countryscensorship system on websites. Over time, ithas risen to become perhaps the most trusted authority on the subject.

The Great Fire site itself is censorshipdatabase. Visitorsto input a URLto determine if the website isblocked inChina. It is available in English and Chinese, and periodically tests its collectionof over 100,000 URLs to produce a history of the availability/restriction for each one. A hugely useful resource in its own right, GreatFire has come to mean a lot more than just checks. These days, thethree founders document new instances of internet restrictions and foul play in China viathe organizations blog and @greatfirechina Twitter account.

Great Fire is regularlyreferenced byReuters, The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and other global media including TechCrunch, of course. Stories it has dug up have included apparent attacks on Apples iCloud service, the blocking of Instagram and messaging apps, restrictionson Google services(of course) and most recentlydetails of a man-in-the-middle attack on Microsoft Outlook users in China.

Thats made the site and its founders a go-to resource for media, activists andanyone with an interest in the internet in China.

In terms ofblogging, weve amazed ourselves, said Smith. Smith highlighted the recent Microsoft attack and the role that Great Fire played publicizing it.

The story began like many others with a post on the Great Fire blog. That was picked up by media which gave the finding aglobal platform and attention.Microsoft entered the scene when itconfirmed that a small number of customers [were] impacted by malicious routing to a server impersonating Outlook.com and suddenly what was initially a small discovery had become a topic in media across the world, China included.

It got me thinking, if wewerent around who wouldve exposed that? Its a serious thing, Smith said.

Great Fire is an invaluable resource for Asia-based tech reporters, but blogging and retroactively documented censorship isnt going to down theGreat Firewall, as Chinas internet censorship organ is known. For that, Smith and his fellow vigilantes have a more sophisticated plan of action that they call Collateral Freedom. Its a concept that leverages cloud-based content networks to give blocked websites and services a new, unblocked lease of life in China.

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is Censorship Vital in White Peoples System of White Supremacy? Pt 1
I discussed what I think is an oxymoron in America, which is free speech. Do white people feel it is absolutely necessary to control speech? There is no doubt in my mind that white people censor...

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Home News Security China anti-censorship projects attract GitHub's largest ever DDoS attacks GitHub has halted most of the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks it has faced from Thursday of last week.

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A GitHub service called Gists, which lets people post bits of code, was still affected,the site said yesterday (Sunday 29 March). On Twitter, GitHub said it continued to adapt its defenses.

The attacks appeared to focus specifically on two projects hosted on GitHub, according to a blogger who goes by the nickname of Anthr@Xon a Chinese- and English-language computer security forum.

One project mirrors the content of The New York Times for Chinese users, and the other is run by Greatfire.org, a group that monitors websites censored by the Chinese government and develops ways for Chinese users to access banned services.

China exerts strict control over Internet access through its "Great Firewall," a sophisticated ring of networking equipment and filtering software. The country blocks thousands of websites, including ones such as Facebook and Twitter and media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and Bloomberg.

Anthr@X wrote that it appeared advertising and tracking code used by many Chinese websites appeared to have been modified in order to attack the GitHub pages of the two software projects.

The tracking code was written by Baidu, but it did not appear the search engine -- the largest in China -- had anything to do with it. Instead, Anthr@X wrote that some device on the border of China's inner network was hijacking HTTP connections to websites within the country.

The Baidu tracking code had been replaced with malicious JavaScript that would load the two GitHub pages every two seconds. In essence, it means the attackers had roped in regular Internet users into their attacks without them knowing.

"In other words, even people outside China are being weaponised to target things the Chinese government does not like, for example, freedom of speech," Anthr@X wrote.

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The Hidden Internet- NWO, Fighting Censorship Guild Wars
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