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Trick or Treat Radio Episode 119 - Sick Little Censorship
What #39;s up, cats and kittens? On Episode 119 of Trick or Treat Radio, we review the 2014 flick, Killers, directed by the Mo Brothers and produced by the man with the midas touch, Gareth Evans....

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CLAYTON St. Louis County police released audiotapes Wednesday they say bolster their contention that restrictions on flights over Ferguson protests for 11 days in August were about safety and not news censorship.

The Associated Press reported Monday that tapes of discussions between police and the Federal Aviation Administration suggest that a Temporary Flight Restriction was sought to keep out news helicopters.

Capt. Kurt Frisz, who was scene commander in Ferguson at the time, said he realized the conversations were subject to that interpretation, but he insisted that it was really about safety in the face of potential gunfire and laser interference.

A complication, he said, was that his concerns were relayed to Ed Kunz of the FAA in Kansas City through a third person, police dispatching supervisor Chris Trittler.

Police said they received a 911 call at 11:10 p.m. Aug. 10 reporting that protesters were aiming guns at police helicopters. Officials also provided a report from a police pilot of a potentially blinding laser strike, and three audio clips of phone conversations between Frisz and Trittler, and between Trittler and Kunz.

Frisz said he wished he would have had time to talk directly to Kunz and avoid Trittlers speculation that the move was done to keep the news media out.

In the recordings, Kunz and Trittler discuss Friszs request for an 8,000-foot flight minimum that Kunz calls a little higher than normal. Concerned about possible impact on operations at nearby Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, Kunz asks, So hes OK with commercial aircraft transiting area if they need to, so this is a restriction to keep the media out, is that correct?

Trittler replies, He didnt state that, but that would be my guess. He adds, Were doing extra patrols in a three-mile radius and our helicopter is doing extra patrols. I really dont know, but if I had to guess, I would guess that it would be for the news more than anything else, but that would just be speculation on my part.

Frisz, himself a pilot, cited serious safety threats Wednesday, saying, People shooting at a helicopter are not going to know the difference between a media helicopter and a police helicopter. He added, I made the decision to request a TFR ... to reduce the number of targets in the air and allow law enforcement more latitude to maneuver in the airspace safely and reduce their visibility and vulnerability.

FAA Administrator Michael Huerta issued a statement Monday saying no news media had objected to any of the restrictions. It says, in part, When local law enforcement reports a danger to aircraft, including guns fired into the air that could impact low flying aircraft, the FAA will always err on the side of safety.

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Rang Rasiyais not a consistent film, but one that tells a story of a pioneering artist and visionary, a story decidedly worth telling, says Raja Sen.

Censorship is an utterly pointless and regressive activity, and we Indians have always been good at it.

Good at said pointlessness, that is, not at actually establishing some sort of sensible organisation that knows the meaning of the word 'context'.

Ketan Mehta's film Rang Rasiya, a biopic of the artist Raja Ravi Varma, deals with artistic censorship, a subject that remains immensely relevant in a country where filmmakers are asked to cut out dialogues and trim scenes by 20 percent just cause the censor board said so.

The movie opens with a courtroom scene, one that reminded me of Howl, the James Franco-starrer about Allen Ginsberg's obscenity trial.A compelling film, it concentrated on the fascinating case -- recreating preposterous but real-life court transcripts -- and, on the side, explored the beat poet's life, love and history.

The story, however, was always the trial and I wish Mehta too had kept the courtroom front and centre in his film instead of trying to give us a concise life-and-times or a treatise on censorship instead of both.

That is the fundamental issue with Rang Rasiya: it starts off as a condensed biopic, theatrically moving from one milestone in the artists life to another, with scarcely any time to breathe.

It is a fascinating life, sure, but this narrative progression -- with long stretches devoted to mediocre songs and dramatic moments constantly underscored by overdone background music -- plays out like a school play, with bad costumes, clunky lines and no detailing.

Randeep Hooda, who plays Raja Ravi Varma, is solid but the film around him is eye-rollingly overdone. Like the books we see as background in a study, leatherbound hardbacks with nothing written on them to distinguish one from the other, the film appears spineless.

Thankfully, the second half of the film, where the courtroom battle comes more sharply into focus and the narrative of his life actually gets going, is genuinely interesting. Portions where the artist took an interest in the cinema, for example, bustle with energy. Even the background score gets jauntier.

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CAPTAIN AMERICA: WINTER SOLDIER | Unnecessary Censorship | Censored Avengers Parody Bleep Video
This Week in Unnecessary Censorship, Captain America: The Winter Soldier! The Capt is back to his old habits again.... Censorship tells the wrong story. Subs...

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Rant - Nintendo #39;s Insane Censorship
This NEEDS to STOP, Nintendo! This limits freedom of speech; We don #39;t care if you #39;re trying to overly-protect children; You need to remove this as soon s possible! Here #39;s our newest rant!

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By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai2014-11-04 22:35:15 UTC

Now more than ever, governments around the world are eager to get their hands on data about Facebook users and now more than ever, they want to remove content disappear from the social network.

Global surveillance requests for Facebook user data in the first half of 2014 increased 24% from the second half of 2013, according to the social network's transparency report revealed on Tuesday. A total of 34,946 requests were made between January and June, including messages, IP addresses and account information. Censorship also increased worldwide; compared to the June through December 2013, the amount of content censored on Facebook increased by 19%, according to the report.

Facebook is not the only service that has seen such a sharp increase in surveillance requests and censorship. In September, Google revealed that requests for user data had increased 15% compared to the previous six months, meaning a 150% increase over five years.

In a blog post accompanying the company's third such report, Facebook said that it doesn't accept every single request for user data or request to restrict content.

"As weve said before, we scrutinize every government request we receive for legal sufficiency under our terms and the strict letter of the law, and push back hard when we find deficiencies or are served with overly broad requests," Chris Sonderby, deputy general counsel at Facebook, wrote.

The company also disclosed the number of requests related to national security received by the U.S. government.

The data closed is only available in broad ranges, thanks to government restrictions on companies' transparency. For example, between Jan. 1 and June 30, Facebook received between 0 and 999 National Security Letters (NSLs); the company is not permitted to disclose the precise number. There is no data in this report about NSA-related requests, technically referred to as Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) requests, since Facebook is required to wait six months before releasing such data.

Other companies, including Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn and Microsoft have the same constraints when reporting requests related to national security, thanks to a deal that the companies struck with the U.S. government in January. Twitter, on the other hand, recently sued the U.S. government to push for these restrictions to be lifted.

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Chinese media censorship - Discussion in English
Chinese media censorship - Discussion in English.

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Planes: Fire Rescue | Unnecessary Censorship | Censored Parody Video
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Zen room 2 November 2014 2nd attempt due to youtube censorship
Zen room 2 November 2014 2nd attempt due to youtube censorship.

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Russia Media Censorship: Radio station Echo of Moscow warned for Donetsk airport reports
Russian radio station Ekho Moskvy has received a warning from Russia #39;s media regulator after airing a programme which the regulator said contained infomration, "justifying practices of war...

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