censorship

There is a certain philosophy on the marketplace of ideas that's popular in a lot of places and in fact is part of the underlying idea behind the rules of this very forum. The main gist of it is that no idea or viewpoint is so ugly or dangerous that it ought to be prohibited, even in privately...

I thought it might be an interesting exercise to list all the times a government agency wanted to tell the people THE TRUTH, but was silenced in one way or another. It kind of throws a curve ball at the whole conspiracy belief system wherein the government is this massive monolithic entity that...

It appears that the Youtube Account of leading Australian sceptic Richard Saunders has been suspended over a copyright claim. Saunders, possibly best known for his stint as the sceptical judge on "The One, a sort of "psychic idol" show, had posted a clip from a Channel 10 morning show in which...

First it was Brunel. Then David Colquhoun. But now Monsieur Hulot appears on Paris billboards without his pipe. It's political correctness gone mad I tell you...

Germany cannot block wikipedia but they have done what they can with a preliminary injunction that bars the internet address www.wikipedia.de which is owned by the Wikimedia Deutschland from linking to de.wikipedia.org. Wikimedia Deutschland is independent from the wikimedia foundation that runs...

SNL Skit On Libs Herb & Marion Sandler Is Yanked. Libs Too Thin Skinned For Parody? The sandlers fund Moveon.org, ACORN, Center for American Progress, Human Rights Watch, etc. I wonder why SNL caved in to the Sandlers request to edit out the good stuff? That Barney Frank impersonation is...

Do you think this poem is suitable for study in school (age 15-16)? Why or why not? For background, see the following pages: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7594566.stm http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/sep/04/gcses.english...

Guys, There have been a few postings to these forums about godtube complaining that remarks critical of godtube videos are deleted. I've been doing some experiments and followed the terms of use as closely as I could, although the condition "You agree not to post ... contrary to the...

Behold, the text of the final NWO crackdown on the 9/11 Truth Movement: H.R. 1955, Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007. You might read this and think, "Well, I'm glad somebody's going to look into this problem and see what can be done." You may read this and...

See: here here and here For the original article, see Google's cache or here or here or here or...

Free People Read Freely "We witness today perhaps the most widespread suppression of views the country has known. The suppression comes not from fear of being jailed but from fear of being dismissed from employment, banned from radio work, disqualified for teaching, or unacceptable for the...

Randi wrote: "I really think that any other TV authority anywhere in the civilized world - with the exception of Venezuela, as we've recently learned - would be not only alarmed, but seriously concerned about such blatant bowdlerization, ..." What has Randi learned about TV authorities in...

From here It couldn't happen to a nicer guy ;)

Wow, take a look at digg.com tonight. The users are going nuts over the censorship of the HD DVD key that was cracked way back in February. It seems that this is being interpreted as a sell-out, since HD DVD is a sponsor of the digg podcast. Digg always seemed to me to be at least partly...

Link I'm sure that it did "greatly disturb the sleep" of the two healthy teenage boys, but I doubt that it was because they were traumatized.

Using Stumble, I found this website: http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/test/ It supposedly lets you test a website to see if access to it is blocked from China. Of course, the first website I tested was www.randi.org and to my surprise it claims to be blocked! I smell conspiracy. >.>

The youtube video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9w7jHYriFo ) of Randi criticizing Geller was pulled offline with a notice "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Explorologist LTD." I typed "Explorologist" into google and got 9 hits. The only relevant hits link to...

As Slashdot pointed out, YouTube has taken down videos by Nick Gisburne that criticize Islam. I don't know if YouTube had good reasons for taking them down or if they were just "chicken," so to speak, but one red flag to me is that Gisburne used paraphrases from the "Skeptic's" Annotated Qu'ran...

Looks like we're going to have the hard left trying to ram Pravda down our throats if they can get away with it. Seems like the free speech kind of bugs them, unless it's THEIR free speech. I'm always puzzled about these kooks. Are they Nazis or Commies? Either way, seems like they have...

http://jturn.qem.se/2006/more-pictures-of-iranian-censorship/ Interesting....

Yes, somehow Project Censored already knows what big stories the media are going to ignore next year; must be because they didn't give those stories more coverage this year. And in fact, that seems to be their definition of "censored"--ignored. The #2 "censored" story of 2007 is a claim by...

Earlier this year, BBC News (and others) reported that Google has agreed to censor its search results in China in exchange for being allowed to participate in the undoubtedly lucrative Chinese search market. Chinese users who google for terms like "democracy", "tiananmen square", "taiwan...

Source. What a brilliant idea! Big Brother, anyone?

Sort of.... A local sculptor was commissioned to do a large bronze by a local foundry, which does such casting. The finished work was a take on "The creation of man" in the Sistine Chapel, with Adam in his accustomed pose, and "God" portrayed as a hunky young black man. "God" is tastefully...

Dang, I love living in Denmark. I wonder if there will be an influx of American citizens wanting to relocate to a country with real freedom of speech...?

Poor Chris Marlowe http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1887902,00.html

I don't care where you stand on the Kyoto Protocols, this is more than a little scary. Read the story here.

Link to article On climateaudit, this appears to have been filed under "Pope found to be catholic" and "Bears found defecating in arboreal surroundings" The only bit that even mildly surprises me is that nobody asks the obvious question to this (my emphasis): Now fill in for the journos the...

I just finished reading the very interesting string on the "Life of Jesus" cartoonist fate should he ever step foot in Greece. As an artist, I am very concerned with censorship of any type, and the most noteworthy artistic censorship in recent times came when the Bush administration duped...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/machan/machan57.html There are quite a few good articles on Lew Rockwell today. I won't link anymore, but you might want to check them out. Truth be told I think most of you - libertarian or not - will agree with many of the opinions of many of the contributors. I...