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Mark Dice is Back on YouTube After All Videos Deleted and Channel Shut Down in Censorship Attempt
Mark Dice is Back on YouTube After All Videos Deleted and Channel Shut Down in Censorship Attempt,Mark Dice is Back on YouTube After All Videos Deleted and C...

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Facebook Censorship Against The Word Queer
I am no longer at odds with the Revered Tim Shaw. Brief video regarding my having been censored and punished by facebook for having posted my opinion on seve...

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Ending Online Censorship: Charlie Smith at TEDxHagueAcademySalon
#39;Collateral Freedom #39; is a strategy to circumvent Chinese internet censorship using commercial cyberspace that China wants to keep open to host sites it would...

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The Alex Jones show Monday March 24th 2014 part 3 of 13 edited due to censorship

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Sina Weibo Investors Beware The Censorship Risk!
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christian censorship is ruining this world
this is about the Christians censoring the smallest thing for dumb reasons.

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A conversation with UN free speech rapporteur Frank La Rue
Index hosts a Google Hangout with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, Fr...

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Mar. 27, 2014

Court in Turkey rules that the government of Prime Min Recep Tayyip Erdogan cannot ban Twitter, as it sought to do, and orders countrys telecommunications authority to restore access to the service; action by the government had been met inside and outside the country with an uproar about respect for freedom of expression.MORE

Turkish Journalists' Assn, as well as two experts in Internet law, take legal action to try to overturn a government ban on Twitter, even as government intensifies its efforts to block access to the social media site.MORE

Editorial decries Turkish Prime Min Recep Tayyip Erdogan's efforts to silence Twitter in effort to eradicate disclosures of corruption and criticism of his regime; holds ban has been ineffective and has made Erdogan target of worldwide social media protest and mockery.MORE

Turkish Prime Min Recep Tayyip Erdogans ban of Twitter draws international outrage and is defied by thousands of Turks, including Pres Abdullah Gul, who protested--using Twitter.MORE

Turkish government blocks Twitter after social media network is used to spread leaked conversations and documents appearing to implicate high-ranking officials and their associates in widespread corruption investigation; shutdown occurs 10 days before local elections.MORE

Russian authorities block three websites and blog, including platforms used by opposition leaders Aleksei A Navalny and Garry K Kasparov, saying sites encourage illegal activities; move follows appointment of pro-Kremlin journalist to lead independent Russian news site Lenta.ru after site published interview with Ukranian nationalist organization.MORE

Op-Ed article by Google executives Eric E Schmidt and Jared Cohen outlines challenges of confronting Internet censorship across the globe; contends that technology to defeat censorship exists, but making it available to everyone requires more money and attention from private companies and governments.MORE

Turkish Pres Abdullah Gul says he will not go along with Prime Min Recep Tayyip Erdogan's pledge to shut down Facebook and YouTube following local elections; thousands in Ankara and Istanbul have taken to streets to protest Internet restrictions and corruption in the government.MORE

Op-Ed article by Prof Wendy Doniger submits India's banning of her book The Hindus: An Alternative History on blasphemy charges has had unintended effect of highlighting problems posed by country's blasphemy laws; says ban points to outsized influence of Hindu fundamentalists in Indian political discourse; holds book defends forgotten aspects of Hinduism, while fundamentalists are in essence attacking their own religion.MORE

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Censorship - News - Times Topics - The New York Times

The lawsuit was filed by a group of eight New York-based content producers who say Baidus search engine algorithms (Baidus main Internet function) block material in the U.S. per the Chinese governments heavy censorship laws, and that violates the Constitution, Reuters says. Their content mostly advocated for more democracy in China.

But U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman in Manhattan disagrees. He likened Baidus algorithms to a newspapers editorial stance and says that The First Amendment protects Baidu's right to advocate for systems of government other than democracy (in China or elsewhere) just as surely as it protects plaintiffs' rights to advocate for democracy.

The activists sought $16 million in damages from Baidu and plan to appeal the ruling. Their lawyer Stephen Preziosi said that the court has laid out a perfect paradox: that it will allow the suppression of free speech, in the name of free speech, following the ruling.

Baidu provides access to streaming music and video and it even runs a Wikipedia-like encyclopedia service (that only registered users can edit). It has more than 500 million regular users in China and a small but significant population of users in the United States.

Baidu is the fifth-most trafficked site on the planet, according to Alexa, an Amazon-owned web traffic monitor. Only Yahoo.com, YouTube, Facebook and Google generate more traffic and unique visitors, all of which are blocked or have subsidiary sites blocked in China.

Additionally, it is the top Chinese language search engine and it opened an English-language site for developers in February 2013. That move opened up English-speaking app developers to write tools for Chinese customers.

Bing, a Microsoft-owned search engine has also been accused of censoring its Chinese-language content. As recently as February 2014, search results for controversial topics were significantly different for Bings English and Chinese-language searches.

Google was accused of the same in China before it finally decided it would no longer comply with Chinese government censorship laws and pulled out. You can see if a website is blocked across China here.

Neither Baidu nor the Chinese embassy in Washington, D.C., responded to Reuters for comment.

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