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View ArticleFCC Follies
Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in FCC v. Fox, with Fox challenging the FCC fines of “fleeting expletives” in live broadcasting. This blog has a good summary of the questioning...
View ArticleChina aims to clean up the Internet
China has decided that it has a new enemy: pornography on the Internet. So the Communist party has threatened to shutter 19 major websites and portals, including the dominant search engine Baidu as...
View ArticleBusting through Iran’s censorship wall
There’s an effective ban on foreign media in Iran, and domestic media there isn’t free, which makes getting accurate information about what is happening in the country extremely difficult. Those of us...
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It’s coal in your stocking, bucko Santa shook like a bowl full of Jell-O at the Southlake Mall in suburban Atlanta, but not in a good way. Police in Morrow, Ga., say 45-year-old William C. Caldwell III...
View ArticleBe careful what you text in China
Another virtual brick has been added to what has been dubbed “The Great Firewall of China.” According to the state-run China Daily, police will provide mobile phone companies with a set of “key words”...
View ArticleRemembering Tiananmen
Chinese censors aren’t laughing. A cartoon published in a Chinese newspaper last week appears to refer to the violent crackdown in 1989 on protesters in Tiananmen Square. It shows a boy drawing a...
View ArticleThe high-tech cold war that has entangled RIM
JONATHAN GAINER/BLOOMBERG/GETTY/ HARISH TYAGI/EPA/KEYSTONE When Research In Motion signed a deal four years ago to sell BlackBerry handsets in the United Arab Emirates, executives touted it as a...
View ArticleThe sinner who kept on trying
Martin Roemers/Panos/ Trevor Samson/AFP/Getty Images The cell is an ideal place to learn to know yourself; it gives you the opportunity to look daily into your conduct, to overcome the bad and develop...
View ArticleThe misfortune of an interesting life
These days, Rushdie seems serene and quietly happy—exactly the type to be calm in the eye of a storm, literary or otherwise | Alberto Estevez/EPA/Keystone Press; Mohsin Raza/Reuters Midtown Manhattan...
View ArticleIranian films go audience-friendly, are explicitly political
Courtesy of Maryam Keshavarz There has never been an Iranian film like it. Circumstance is a love story about two renegade schoolgirls in Tehran who defy authority by cruising underground nightclubs,...
View ArticleThey said that on network television?
Getty Images; Photo Illustration by Sarah MacKinnon Rape, multiple simultaneous sexual partners, and penis size: they’re not reality-show or cable topics, they’re the jokes on major network sitcoms....
View ArticleTwitter is censoring–but don’t rush to judge
Since announcing its uneasy compromise with censorship last week, Twitter has unsurprisingly taken a lot of heat–much of it on Twitter. The company blog raised flags immediately with its mealy-mouthed...
View Article8 Canadian books people have sought to ban in Canada
Over the decades people have sought to ban from libraries numerous books by Canadian authors because they didn’t like what was contained within their pages. Here are some attempts, listed in reverse...
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