Archive for the ‘Censorship’ Category

Technical Study of the Internet Shutdown in Burma

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

The Open Net Initiative has just produced a brief technical study of the Burmese government's internet censorship, including a complete shutdown from September 29 through October 4. Allow me to spoil the report's ending for you: While the [Burmese government] has exacerbated its legacy of massive human rights violations through this crackdown, ...

House Reporter Shield Bill Excludes Amateurs

Friday, October 19th, 2007

As mourned at the Citizen Media Law Project, the final House version of the bill (HR 2102) to protect reporters from revealing confidential sources was amended specifically to exclude unpaid journalists. Sadly, this amendment was proposed by the bill's lead authors, Rick Boucher (D-VA) and Mike Pence (R-IN). Boucher is generally ...

copyright and censorship

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

Bill has an excellent post on the RIAA peer-to-peer trial, so I am only going to add the following comparison as food for thought. The U.S. being the land of the freedom, and China being the authoritarian country that censors its media - how come the case of the Minnesota ...