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Death Camp Funnies 40 [Party Party]
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Stopping SOPA: Copyright, Free Speech, and Popular Constitutionalism
Speaker: Professor Edward Lee During late 2011 and January 2012, millions of people protested the passage of the controversial copyright bill the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in Congress. The protests culminated in the largest online protest in the history of the Internet, with web giant Wikipedia and thousands of other websites going black in a day of self-censorship. In a few short months, the protesters achieved something remarkable: they defeated money, politicians, Hollywood, and the copyright lobby, all in the name of a "free and open Internet." This talk with Professor Edward Lee, explains these grassroots movements as a form of popular constitutionalism. Courts didn #39;t define speech rights. People did. And, in the end, it was the people #39;s view of free speech that carried the day. Edward Lee Bio http://www.kentlaw.iit.edu More Info on Event cyberlaw.stanford.eduFrom:stanfordcisViews:2 0ratingsTime:01:13:56More inEducation

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Unnecessary Censorship in Skyrim
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Tech Time : Best Gadgets of 2012, Apple Claims iPad thinner than Credit Card, Murder and more...
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"Communist Party", "Coup d'etat" and "Democracy and Freedom" are just some of the long list of search terms blocked on the Twitter-like microblogging site Sina Weibo in China. But a new service, FreeWeibo, is trying to pull back the government's control over Internet content by providing unfiltered searches on the microblogging site.

China is well-known for its widespread online censorship, which has already blocked access to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in its attempts to clamp down on user-generated content critical of the government. Sina Weibo, which has more than 300 million registered users, offers its own similar social networking services, but strictly observes government rules on censorship.

Blocking user searches for sensitive topics is one way Sina Weibo has controlled its content. But in response a new site, FreeWeibo, launched last month allowing users to make uncensored searches on the microblogging site.

FreeWeibo was started by a foreigner living in China who goes by the alias Martin Johnson. For security reasons, he declined to give out his personal details in an interview on Thursday, and only said he was a Web developer opposed to China's online censorship. In addition to FreeWeibo, Johnson also founded GreatFire.org, a site that monitors the country's censoring of sites and reported the block on Google services in China last week.

The small group of foreigners and Chinese behind FreeWeibo has ambitious aims. "We want to make it into another alternative to using (Sina Weibo's) official search. We'll offer you everything, plus all the things they didn't want you to find," Johnson said. "With FreeWeibo, it's not just about studying censorship. I want to show what it could be like if it's not censored."

The service works by tracking and storing search results on Sina Weibo, so that even if the site later decides to block the queries, FreeWeibo still has the information stored. Data is also taken from "Weiboscope", a service from the University of Hong Kong that was also designed to track censored posts on Sina Weibo.

The difference in search results between FreeWeibo and SinaWeibo can be stark. Whereas a search for "Communist Party" on Sina Weibo will show it blocked because of government policy, FreeWeibo on Thursday offered a long list of posts using the term, some of which were critical of the party.

"It's totally true. After abandoning Mao Zedong thought, China's Communist Party no longer stands for 'communal', the People's Republic of China no longer stands for 'the people'," said one post.

FreeWeibo, however, is already blocked by Chinese authorities after only a month online. Despite the censorship, the site is gaining traction and has more than a thousand visitors per day, the majority of which come from China. To access the site, these users are likely relying on virtual private networks (VPNs), which usually cost money, but can bypass the country's online censorship systems.

The hope is that FreeWeibo's user will repost the censored content onto their own official Sina Weibo accounts, Johnson said. "We are looking at things like being able to slightly change the words of those messages so that they won't automatically be deleted when posted," he said. "In that way we can make a difference, not just for the minority of people able to access the site, but for a majority of the people so that they can see these posts."

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New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) Underlining his commitment to freedom of the press, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday said censorship was not the answer but journalists must curb sensationalism and ensure that objectivity is promoted.

In a message on National Press Day, the prime minister ruled out restrictions on the media, but warned against the perils of irresponsible journalism.

"As a country, we believe in complete independence of the media from external control," he said. However, he also added: "It is true that sometimes irresponsible journalism can have serious consequences for social harmony and public order, which the public authorities have an obligation to maintain, but censorship is no answer."

"It is for the members of the Fourth Estate themselves to collectively ensure that objectivity is promoted and sensationalism is curbed. It is for them to introspect how best they can serve our country and society and advance their well being."

"A free and fair media has been an essential pillar of our democracy. Since our struggle for freedom, media has been guiding social change, informing readers of their rights and contributing to the nationbuilding process by spreading awareness," he said.

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"Can you hear me now?"

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Back in July, we covered Verizon's argument that network neutrality regulations violated the firm's First Amendment rights. In Verizon's view, slowing or blocking packets on a broadband network is little different from a newspaper editor choosing which articles to publish, and should enjoy the same constitutional protection.

Plenty of folks disagree with Verizon's view. On Thursday a number of public interest groups, academics, and former commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission filed amicus briefs taking issue with Verizon's constitutional argument. Verizon, they argued, was ignoring the fundamental distinction between Verizon's own speech and its role as a conduit for the speech of others.

Verizon clearly has First Amendment rights over content it publishes itself, the groups concede. The First Amendment does not apply, however, when Verizon is merely transmitting the content of third parties. Moreover, these groups point out, Verizon itself has disclaimed responsibility for its users' content when it was convenient to do so, making its free speech arguments ring hollow.

Verizon is in the middle of a legal fight against the open Internet rules the Federal Communications Commission adopted in 2010. In addition to arguing that Congress never gave the FCC authority to regulate network neutrality, Verizon also claimed that forcing Verizon to abide by network neutrality rules violated the firm's First Amendment right to free speech.

The courts have long held that the First Amendment limits the government's ability to require "fairness" in certain media. For example, the courts have said that the government cannot require newspaper publishers to print rebuttals to its editorials, nor can it force the organizer of a parade to allow floats that do not fit with the organizer's vision.

In July, Verizon told the United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit that the same logic applies to its own broadband network. In Verizon's view, blocking or throttling content is a constitutionally protected editorial decision. Some libertarian think tanks filed a brief backing Verizon's argument that same month. But on Thursday, three different amicus briefs were filed taking exception to Verizon's argument.

"Verizon and other broadband providers are more akin to telephone companies," argues a brief filed by the Center for Democracy and Technology and signed by a group of law professors. "Like the anti-discrimination obligations that apply to those companies, the Rules do not restrict or compel anyones speech but instead protect everyones speech by requiring that it be transmitted without interference."

CDT warns that accepting Verizon's argument would "call into question all of common carriage law, and threaten to give any actor with the physical or technical ability to block speechbe it a telephone company or FedExa First Amendment right to do so."

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Ellen Hopkins @ National Coalition Against Censorship 2012
NCAC Annual Celebration of Free Speech Its Defenders. Novemebr 12, 2012From:Rocco StainoViews:1 0ratingsTime:04:28More inEducation

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Money Doesn #39;t Build A School
Sharing this video is more important than donating. This is the story of how the YouTube Community (including Nerdfighters) is helping to build a school. Well, not really. Because donations don #39;t build a school. Donations can only construct a building. Watch the above video to learn more. What you see in this video was funded by donations to: uncultured.com Due to Bangladesh #39;s censorship of YouTube (and generally poor internet speeds), uploading videos from Bangladesh is harder than ever. If you want to stay up-to-date, you can follow Jory Caron and I on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and Instagram. My Tumblr: uncultured.tumblr.com My Twitter twitter.com My Facebook: facebook.com My Instagram: instagram.com Jory #39;s Tumblr: jorycaron.tumblr.com Jory #39;s Twitter twitter.com Jory #39;s Facebook: http://www.facebook.com Jory #39;s Instagram: instagram.com ==================== Special Thanks To: ==================== Blumberg Segal LLP ( http://www.blumbergs.ca ) Elgato Systems LLC ( http ) Tiffen ( http://www.tiffen.com ) CrumplePop Software ( http ) RedGiant Software ( http://www.redgiantsoftware.com ) CoreMelt ( http ) Dan Phillipson ( twitter.com ) SmallHD ( http://www.smallhd.com ) Microsoft ( http ) ==================== This video is compressed using Turbo.264HD encoding software by Elgato. Video monetized as part of my continuing efforts to try and earn a living doing this.From:UnculturedProjectViews:1162 204ratingsTime:02:42More inNonprofits Activism

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