Category Archives: Censorship

China: Censorship and Single Party Media Control
Personally I find this one of the most frustrating and unfair aspects of modern China.

By: Nathan Hazlett

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BEIJING Protests in Hong Kong may have dominated global headlines in the past week, but they stirred much less attention on the Chinese mainland, where government censorship has been particularly strict.

Even in Beijing, many people canvassed informally on Monday said they were not aware that protests were taking place in the southern territory. On a sunny public holiday in the Chinese capital, people thronged shopping malls, restaurants and cafes, while others made their way into and around the city at railway, bus and subway stations. About half of the five dozen people questioned professed no knowledge of or said they were not following events in Hong Kong, while most of the rest said their understanding of the situation was limited to state news media reports.

Guo Lin, a 20-year-old student at lunch with a friend in a KFC restaurant in the west of the city, said she was surprised how different the information she was receiving from friends through the Wechat social media platform was from that released on state-run China Central Television.

My friends who studied in Hong Kong told me how bad the government is there, but CCTV told me how irrational the protesters are I dont know who to believe, she said. I dont think the protesters are aggressive. I even envy them because they have freedom of speech.

Gauging public opinion is notoriously hard in China, where free speech on sensitive topics is extremely limited. But in conversations with a range of people in the capital Monday, there appeared to be little sympathy for the protesters main demand that Hong Kong be granted full democracy and a tendency to blame students, radicals or foreign governments for disrupting life there rather than the authorities in Hong Kong and Beijing for intransigence.

Equally, though, in a city that lived through the bloody quelling of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy demonstrations, residents expressed a strong desire for dialogue and a peaceful, negotiated solution to end the stalemate.

There was also significant frustration with the Chinese governments blanket censorship of news media and social media coverage.

On Sunday, the state-run Xinhua News Agency ran a story stating that Chinese people from all walks of life have voiced their strong denouncement and opposition against the illegal gatherings of the Occupy Central movement in Hong Kong.

But public opinion in the capital appeared slightly more nuanced Monday. Backing the Chinese governments line, a few people said trouble had been stirred up by the U.S. government, while others blamed radicals from Hong Kong for selfishly disrupting peoples lives to further their own agenda.

A 34-year-old finance industry professional, Zhao Xiangang, said he thought the protests had been manipulated by foreign forces and were misguided. Unity is the only feasible choice for China and is in alliance with Chinese culture, he said. Democracy, in its nature, is in contrast with unity, which calls for some proper control and dictatorship.

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In Beijing, support for dialogue in Hong Kong but not democracy

The OpenTellus project is operated outside the reach of censorship authorities and allows people within these controlled areas to practice freedom of speech and to make up their own mind about what is right or wrong.

A prime example of internet censorship happening today is the ongoing online feud between Russia and Ukraine. Both countries are reporting their side of the story, and both countries are blocking content online in order to hide information from their citizens regarding the opposing side. The same thing is happening in Hong Kong today where China is blocking out the protests for its 1.2 billion citizens in mainland China. The OpenTellus project is operated outside the reach of these censorship authorities and allows people within these controlled areas to practice freedom of speech and to make up their own mind about what is right or wrong.

Mike Sjoblom, the leader of a team of experienced IT experts from the US, Europe, and Asia has discovered a new way for people to access the internet using a cloud solution. With a click of a link online, people gain access to the internet outside the local internet providers which eliminates the ability to censor or filter information on the web.

I couldnt have done it myself, this is a team effort, Mr. Sjoblom says, pointing out that with the sophisticated technologies today, governments around the world can chose what information they want their citizens to access or be kept ignorant about.

There are numerous examples where successful alterations of true online information have changed the outcome of elections, historical events, and general facts and figures to match a profile that is suitable for a private purpose.

Mr. Sjoblom says that the use of their code will enable anyone access to the Internet, from any place in the world, using any type of device, regardless of the operative system. A click on a link and the world is open. The innovative platform we intend to build will be available to any provider at any type of data center in the world. Once we setup the system for a provider, they may share their link with anyone they wish to have access to an unfiltered Internet environment. It will be one of those true game-changers in the world.

Users only need three things to gain access to the free and open Internet source:

1) a standard Internet connection, 2) a browser window and 3) a link to the platform from a provider in an uncensored internet zone.

The cloud will break all boundaries and take borderless internet to a borderless and free internet for the first time in history.

As Mr. Sjoblom says, a VM [virtual machine] is a computer that is available at a data center from anywhere in the world. The user accesses the VM online through a link. Our secret sauce is the discovery of how to open up a single VM to an unlimited number of users. VMs can only be accessed by one person at a time with todays technology and without our code.

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Eliminate Internet Censorship with the OpenTellus Code

After Censorship of History Course, Colorado Students-and Teachers Give a Lesson in Civil Disobedie
After a county school board in Colorado proposed to rewrite the district #39;s high school history curriculum to stop teaching about civil disobedience, studen...

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LANGUAGE! Live Unit 6: Censorship

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George Hagenauer Comics Censorship Panel Part 4
George Hagenauer, is, among other things, a researcher and historian of the world of comics who has written copiously ion comics and illustrations. Freedom of Expression: the Subversiveness...

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UN-God Like Silver Stacking CENSORSHIP at Godlikeproductions aka God Like Productions
Links below: $750000 silver heist +The NASA.gov Web Site Documents the Fact that NASA, has Silver-Based Water Purification Used in the Space Program Egyptians implanted silver plates into...

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UN-God Like Silver Stacking CENSORSHIP at Godlikeproductions aka God Like Productions - Video

Raw Video: Jeffco Schools Board Meeting: Julie Williams talks about censorship
Raw video of the Jeffco Public Schools Board of Education meeting on Oct. 2, 2014 from 5:40 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. School board member Julie Williams explains why she drafted proposal to create...

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Yesterday we reported on some horrendous games that had made their way on to to the Google Play store. Bomb Gaza and Gaza Assault amongst others were games themed around the on-going conflict on the Gaza Strip. Hey, at least Call of Duty had the decency to give it a few years, guys!

As you might imagine, as word of the games spread so did the outrage which eventually prompted Google to remove the games from the store. But was this the right thing to do? Im not so sure.

At risk of banging on and on about the same point I always make: Isnt this another example of where we have devolved decision making like this to an unaccountable global corporation? As I argued when YouTube took down the videos of spree killer Elliot Rodgers, given Googles place as a hegemonic power in online content, though it makes us queasy, is it not weird that Google is the company that gets to make the decision over what is acceptable? Though Google is not the government telling us what we can and cannot do, it would be wilfully naive to argue that it is not a hugely powerful arbiter in what is acceptable online.

The decision to remove Bomb Gaza was made by Google alone and yes, if the makers of the game really did want to publish their horrible game they could offer the APK file to side-load on to your device, or produce it for another format and distribute it on floppy discs or something but given how much extra effort these alternative methods are, is this not an act of censorship? If I held a debate, but only let you speak if you can pick the sellotape from your mouth and escape from the box youd been locked in, would that really be fair?

Okay, so Bomb Gaza is just a trite video game and this isnt book burning. So why should we care? Its not like videogames are free speech are they?

I would argue that they certainly are. Just because it is a new format for expressing an opinion doesnt make it any less valid: Whilst there are more sophisticated games that make political points, like Papers Please or this satirical iPhone factory game (that was also problematically banned), theyre all expressions of a point of view however crudely and the idea of shutting any of them out should make anyone who believes in free expression nervous. The kids (lets face it, theyre probably kids) who coded the offensive games clearly feel strongly about what is happening in Gaza: why would making a poster or writing a pamphlet (as they used to do in the old days) or even sending a tweet or posting a Vine (as they do now) be any different?

Interestingly the US Supreme Court agree with me in 2005 it ruled that games are a form of speech that should be protected under the first amendment. Regardless of the outcome of this case, it wouldnt impact my opinion but it is interesting to see that Im not alone in this view.

So this brings me to the point I keep making: Why are we happy for Google to make these decisions? Is it an act of censorship? Or was removing the games the right thing to do?

Counterintuitively, the answer might be both. It would be the right thing to do, but Im not sure Google should have actually done it. In a free society, we have to accept that inevitably, some people are going to be awful. And even if we were to accept that there is a need for some degree of censorship (Im not sure I do) who put Google in charge?

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The Skep-Tech: Is Googles removal of Bomb Gaza censorship or just the right thing to do?

Arabic Cultural Program: Cinema and Censorship - Part 2
The Arabic Culture Program in the Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations held a seminar titled Cinema and Censorship. Critics Ali Abu Shadi, Walid Saif...

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