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DA accuses SABC of censorship
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UK Anti-Internet Censorship Indigogo Campaign
The UK is moving dangerously close to internet censorship and we need your help to stop it! Recently the Government, with the help of religious lobby groups,...

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A Day of: Team Fortress 2 - Censorship Vengeance [Gloward Phaseus]
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Wanlov shows gross disrepect to MUSIGA and Censorship board
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A man walks into an office of Sina Weibo, widely known as Chinas version of Twitter. Photo: WANG ZHAO/AFP/Getty Images

When shares of Chinese microblogging network Weibo a.k.a. the Twitter of China begin trading on the NASDAQ stock market today, investors will be calibrating their enthusiasm to account for the risk of future censorship by Chinese officials.

Freedom isnt the only thing thats lost to censorship and surveillance oppression also costs money

Thats because Weibo itself told them to do so, with the company warning repeatedly of censorship risk in filings with federal regulators. Regulation and censorship of information disseminated over the internet in China may adversely affect our business and subject us to liability, Weibo said. In particular, said Weibo, it could have a hard time attracting and engaging users if people are afraid to post content to the service.

Weibos raising of red flags is the latest example of how online civil liberties issues are inflicting very real costs on internet companies and, by extension, the countries that host them. And China is hardly the only culprit. The censorship-sullied IPO comes on the heels of revelations of widespread surveillance by the U.S. government, and evidence that such surveillance slowed and complicated business for companies trying to sell cloud-based solutions to large corporations. In Russia, meanwhile, the CEO of the countrys largest social network, VK, resigned under a cloud, implying Kremlin interference. In each case, freedom isnt the only thing thats lost. Oppression also costs money.

At Weibo, government crackdowns seem to have already hobbled the social network. After authorities passed a law threatening to jail anyone who posted an inaccurate message that was reposted more than 500 times, monthly users declined by 28 million. Today, the company has just 129 million monthly users, barely half that of Twitter.

To be sure, some of Weibos has been due to competition from mobile-native competitor WeChat. Weibo also suffers because its users arent valued as highly as those on U.S. based networks, in part because the company hasnt developed mature ad offerings; Weibo will be worth less than a sixth as much as Twitter if it sells 20 million shares today at $17 to $19 a piece, as planned.

Weibo isnt alone in saying that government interference can hurt the bottom line. The New York Times last month reported that U.S. tech companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to build overseas data centers to reassure clients nervous about surveillance by the U.S. National Security Agency.

Silicon Valley startups say its gotten harder to convince large customers their data will be safe since revelations of mass surveillance were leaked by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden last year.

Our conversations with customers and prospective customers around cloud deployment has only gotten tougher since Snowden, says Matt Tucker, co-founder of Jive Software, which makes collaboration software and social networks for corporations.

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Activist Lena Hendry fails to strike out censorship charges
Activist Lena Hendry has failed to strike out charges against her under the Film Censorship Act 2002, for screening the documentary, No Fire Zone: The Killin...

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University of Minnesota at Morris biology professor Dr. Paul Zachary Myers doesnt like young Republicans. In fact, he called them assholes.

Thats what they are, Myers told me in a telephone interview on Friday. I think theyve amply demonstrated it is accurate.

And he also doesnt like The Morris North Star, a conservative student publication that routinely draws the ire of liberals at the University Minnesota at Morris.

I said it was a terrible, terrible paper and they university should not be endorsing it, Myers said. But attorneys for the student newspaper are alleging Myers broke the law when they say he wrote a blog post on his personal blog urging people to throw away the publication.

The Alliance Defending Freedom has accused Myers, an associate professor in the schools biology program, of encouraging people to steal and throw away a copy of the November 22nd edition of the newspaper.

That particular edition included a satire on affirmative action. The professor said the paper was mocking minority students.

I would advocate the disposal of their flyers if the Ku Klux Klan started papering our campus, and likewise, the North Star has worn out its welcome and must go, the professor wrote. Treat their scattered papers as hate-filled trash and dispose of it appropriately.

Myers went on to call the student editors of the publication wingnutty and even took a swipe at Fox News.

We do have conservative students here I expect that the majority are more conservative than I am but they also trend towards being more the reasonable, rational, educate sort of conservative, he wrote. Not the kind youll see on Fox News, and most unfortunately, not the kind who are likely to get elected to the Republican party.

Oh yeah he also called the conservative youngsters assholes-in-training.

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Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (UNNECESSARY CENSORSHIP)
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Watch: DA supporters march against SABC #39;censorship #39;
DA supporters marched against the SABC #39;s decision to pull its "Ayisafani" advert -- because it would "incite violence" -- in Jabulani, Soweto, on Saturday (A...

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