Google reports ‘alarming’ rise in censorship by governments

ShareThis Google reports ‘alarming’ rise in censorship by governments [LOL, they should know! Try getting the CLG Newsletter w. a Gmail account, and see what I mean.] 17 Jun 2012 There has been an alarming rise in the number of times governments attempted to censor the internet in last six months, according to a report [...]

Obama’s New EO Targets Surveillance, Censorship in Iran and Syria While Nothing is Done for Americans

By Madison Ruppert theintelhub.com April 24, 2012 Oh the irony! As our right to a fair trial, our right to live without possibly being assassinated by an out of control government, and our last shreds of privacy (if we indeed have any privacy in America today, which is highly debatable when one does the research) [...]

Cashless Society: Bank of America Refuses Cash for Mortgage Payment

Cashless Society: Bank of America Refuses Cash for Mortgage Payment

Activist Post   In another example that we appear to be rapidly moving into a cashless society, Bank of America in California refused to accept cash for a mortgage payment.  The manager of the bank said it was against their policy to accept legal tender physical currency (aka U.S. dollars) as payment for BoA mortgages. [...]

Support wanes in US Congress for ‘anti-piracy’ bill

ShareThis Support wanes in US Congress for ‘anti-piracy’ bill 19 Jan 2012 Eight US lawmakers have withdrawn their support for anti-piracy censorship laws, after “blackout” protests on thousands of internet sites. Two of the bill’s co-sponsors, Marco Rubio from Florida and Roy Blunt from Missouri, are among those backing away. Online encyclopaedia Wikipedia and blog [...]

Controversial Bird Flu Studies Defy Easy Solutions

CTV.ca January 8, 2012 Controversial bird flu studies that are pitting influenza researchers and scientific journals against biosecurity experts raise complex issues and should not be framed in simplistic terms by proponents or opponents of their publication, a World Health Organization official suggests. While it’s tempting to boil the arguments down to a single issue [...]

Congress seeks legal framework for Internet censorship

ShareThis Congress seeks legal framework for Internet censorship By Mike Ingram 28 Dec 2011 Two bills aimed at establishing a legal framework for government and corporate censorship of the Internet are expected to be discussed in January when Congress returns from its winter break. The first is the so-called PIPA, or Protect IP Act, introduced [...]

Overkill on Internet piracy

By: Jennifer Rubin, WashingtonPost.com Over the weekend, First Amendment impresario Floyd Abrams addressed two controversial Internet piracy bills, the Senate’s Protect IP Act (PIPA) and the House version, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). He argued that the bill, designed to stop Internet theft of intellectual property, has been denounced by critics for setting up [...]

Censorship foes roll out anti-piracy plan, say stop “butchering the Internet”

(BobTuskin.com)   It’s a battle of the Congressional antipiracy acronyms. In one corner are SOPA and PROTECT IP, the House and Senate bills that would bring site blocking, search engine de-listing, and more to the US in an effort to stop “rogue” sites. In the other corner, today’s challenger: the Online Protection & Enforcement of Digital [...]

Survival Doc on Internet Censorship: It’s Real & It’s Here!

Survival Doc on Internet Censorship: It’s Real & It’s Here!

             

Perfect Storm of Internet Censorship (Video)

Perfect Storm of Internet Censorship (Video)

By James Corbett | GRTV “In recent weeks the governments of Britain, Israel, the US, Japan, India and China have reported alleged cyber attacks by foreign militaries, hackers, and malicious software like Duqu, a virus similar to the Stuxnet cyber weapon constructed by Israel and the US for use against Iran’s nuclear program. Although the [...]