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BICOM and freedom of British media
Online World News Plz Subscrib for Latest News http://www.LargestBizDirectory.com Browse Search Company Listings Profiles Search By Company Name, Category, Phone, Mobile, Address Related Keywords ====================================================== In this edition of the show BICOM (Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre) and its role in pro-Israeli censorship in the British media. International: A House of Lords #39; member in Britain has shocked rivals by suggesting that a neutron bomb could be dropped on border regions in Afghanistan, such as the one next to Pakistan. Debate: British Deputy Prime Minister and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg are to urge the coalition government to have a fresh debate on the Palestinian statehood vote in the United Nations to recognize Palestine as a sovereign state. Watch this video on our Website: http://www.presstv.ir Follow our Facebook on: http://www.facebook.com Follow our Twitter on: twitter.com Follow our Tumblr on: presstvchannel.tumblr.comFrom:OnlineWorldNewsViews:0 0ratingsTime:24:00More inNews Politics

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THE INVISIBLE RED LINE: MANOEUVRING CHINESE ARTS CENSORSHIP
This was Session 8 on Day 1 of the conference #39;All that is banned is desired #39; which was held in Oslo, Norway, in October 2012. Speaker: Si Han, Curator (China/Sweden) Moderator: Frances Harrison, Writer, Journalist and Broadcaster (UK) Read more: artsfreedom.orgFrom:artsfreedomViews:1 0ratingsTime:29:21More inNonprofits Activism

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Censorship Interview
Censorship Project for the Novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower. All the rights of the music go to the artist.From:A1331LViews:1 0ratingsTime:02:05More inEntertainment

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Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the Internet, says he is worried that world governments will try to impose controls at long-awaited meetings in Dubai through Dec. 14.

As the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) was preparing to start 11 days of meetings on Dec. 3 in Dubai, Vint Cerf, Google's Chief internet Evangelist and one of the fathers of today's Internet, sent out a heartfelt message to remind Conference participants that the whole world is watching their actions.

His fear, wrote Cerf in a Dec. 2 post on the Google Official Blog, is that some of the world's leaders want to "justify the censorship of legitimate speech, or even cut off Internet access in their countries."

That, wrote Cerf, must be fought by every Internet user and prevented from happening by contacting government officials and making their voices heard in support of an open and free Internet.

The problem, he wrote, is that some of the governments from around the world, which are meeting at the World Conference on International Telecommunications conference in Dubai, oppose such freedoms. The meetings are being held Dec. 3 through 14 to "revise a decades-old treaty, in which only governments have a vote," wrote Cerf. "Some proposals could allow governments to justify the censorship of legitimate speech, or even cut off Internet access in their countries."

The threats are real, according to Cerf. "You can read more about my concerns on CNN.com, but I am not alone. So far, more than 1,000 organizations from more than 160 countries have spoken up too, and they're joined by hundreds of thousands of Internet users who are standing up for a free and open Internet. On an interactive map at freeandopenweb.com, you can see that people from all corners of the world have signed our petition, used the #freeandopen hashtag on social media, or created and uploaded videos to say how important these issues are."

By 5 p.m. Eastern time on Dec. 3 had garnered more than 1.8 million online signatures. "Please make your voice heard and spread the word," Cerf wrote.

The ITU treaty talks have the potential to turn away from the concept of openness that was the fundamental principle behind the Internets original design, Cerf wrote. Starting in 1973, when my colleagues and I proposed the technology behind the Internet, we advocated for an open standard to connect computer networks together," wrote Cerf. "This wasn't merely philosophical; it was also practical."

The idea was to use protocols that were "designed to make the networks of the Internet non-proprietary and interoperable," he wrote. "They avoided 'lock-in,' and allowed for contributions from many sources. This openness is why the Internet creates so much value today. Because it is borderless and belongs to everyone, it has brought unprecedented freedoms to billions of people worldwide: the freedom to create and innovate, to organize and influence, to speak and be heard."

Google began publicizing the ITU meetings in late November to try to build public attention for the meetings. The meetings, which are held behind closed doors, will discuss how the Internet should be regulated in the years to come.

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One of the messages on Egypt's "censored" media sites today

Egypts revolution relied, in part, on the ability to communicate online. Would-be protestors tweeted information about meeting times and posted pictures documenting government human rights abuses. Before being ousted by his people, ex-president, Hosni Mubarak, issued a severe crack down on the media, arresting journalists and bloggers from across the country.

Mubarak was not alone in his quest to stifle online freedoms. Deposed Libyan dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, cut internet access across the country in a bid to quell uprisings and Tunisian ex-president, Ben Ali, used censorship extensively to try to stop the march of revolutionary progress.

Most recently, the main routers in Syria were turned off during a major government assault on the capital. Commentators almost universally blamed the regime, arguing that the internet blackout and the attack on Damascus were hardly likely to be a coincidence.

In Egypts case, Mubaraks was a move intended to intimidate revolutionaries and cover-up attacks on peaceful protestors but it didnt stop him being deposed after 18 days of demonstrations in February last year. Many Egyptians hoped that the democratic election of Mohamed Morsi that followed, would mark the beginning of a new era of free press in the country.

But the countrys journalists were to be disappointed when a new constitution was set in place. When representatives met at the Constituent Assembly last month to discuss what should be included, the Journalists Syndicate say their questions over media rights were repeatedly ignored. Facing a brick wall, they eventually decided to withdraw from the discussion altogether.

Against the wishes of journalists across the country, Morsi's constitution failed to include any articles guarding against the imprisonment of journalists in cases related to freedom of expression.

With the constitution yet to be finalized, newspapers, TV channels and websites are giving the powers that be a taste of their own medicine. While governments across the region are determining what is on and off-line in their countrys, in Egypt, citizens are turning the tables.

Unable to operate as a free press, for one whole day they will give the country no press at all in a large-scale 'media blackout'.Twelve Egyptian newspapers have refused to go to print today and a further five TV channels will go off-air tomorrow.

However, websites will remain up-and-running to cover the blackout. "Weneed the online media to be able to send the message of the strike to the reader," Alaa El-Attar, member of the Journalists Syndicate board told AhramOnline.

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Censorship from on high? Egypt's lowly media hacks turn the tables