EU Privacy Push Flirts With Online Censorship
For everybody's good, of course
Intolerant of tolerance and intolerance, both
European officials want the search engine to unpublish information on command
Would require sites to take down images and information if defendants were acquitted, which could be a problem for crime reporting
Those shoulders too racy for their audiences
Crowdsourced control-freakery
Finds himself victim of the process. Also doesn't know how First Amendment works.
Crackdown on dissent approaches Soviet levels
Said her legs looked like "bleached hams" in YouTube comments
Censorship okay if government argues bad things might happen
Were connected with banned pro-democracy movements
Agreement part of compromise to get reporters to return to work
Judge says restraint on media is mandatory.
Some staff had walked out after government censors changed an editorial
Pictures were taken on public beach, which is perfectly legal
Over graphic images of horrors of nation's civil war
Leaving angry people in the dark will no doubt calm things down
Finding support in social media from celebrities and commentators
Faced two years in prison
Christmas lights that "flip the bird" can stay
Authoritarian regimes jam signals, interfere online
Faces three years in prison for uploading sections of Innocence of Muslims online
Supported by other nations who perhaps aren't fond of letting people say whatever they'd like to say
Michigan Saginaw Valley State University doesn't like the word "fuck."
Wait until the see the kinds of things Americans say about them online
Episode showed God taking orders from the devil
Could inhibit growth and flow of important information
How the American Civil Liberties Union changed the way Americans think about sexual freedom.
Internet providers would be required to comply
Hamas-controlled TV station called "terrorist operation"
Fears of governmental censorship of online speech
A federal judge has ruled Anthony Shaffer has standing to sue on first amendment grounds over the censorship of his book
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