3 hours ago by Maria Khan

Censorship in South Asia: Cultural Regulation from Sedition to Seduction Edited by Raminder Kaur and William Mazzarella Indiana University Press There is no use in burying the head of an ostrich in censorship and imagining the enemy knows nothing of what we are doing. — S.C. Lind Censorship in South ...

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3 hours ago by boz

Yoani Sanchez and Orlando Luis Pardo were on their way to a peaceful march in Havana when they were forced into a car by Cuban security officials and beaten. 20 minutes later they were thrown violently out of the car. Other bloggers reported being detained, but not violently attacked, by police arou ...

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3 hours ago by Richard Wilson

Yesterday I wrote about the discussion I’d been to in Parliament on the use of “super-injunctions” to gag the media. It turns that no-one anywhere is keeping track of how many of these secret gags are being issued, or whether the judges involved are scrutinising the cases properly. But another intri ...

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5 hours ago by Donny

Bookbabble Episode 51: We Can’t Let You Read That! Recorded 1 Nov 2009 Babblers: Bjorn, Lone, Marcel, Donny, with guest Glenda Larke Synopsis: The group talks about censorship in our literature, and as it happens in our respective countries. We discuss about what’s clearly bad, why they should or sh ...

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6 hours ago by admin

urge everyone on YouTube to participate in a blackout on December 19th 2008. We have chosen this date because we needed enough time after this video was posted to gather enough attention and supporters in order to have an effect on the traffic on YouTube. So we figured almost two weeks from now woul ...

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8 hours ago by Cory Doctorow

My latest Locus column, "Teen Sex," explains why I think young adult literature should have sex -- and other "mature" topics -- in it. There's really only one question: "Why have your characters done something that is likely to upset their parents, and why don't you punish them for doing this?" Now, ...

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11 hours ago by Mike Licht

Amazing Grace Baptist Church in North Carolina held its annual Bible Barbecue last week, on Halloween. The Church believes that the 1611 King James Bible (commissioned by the bisexual British monarch) is the only true Scripture. Each year Amazing Grace collects and carbonizes copies of “perversions” ...

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12 hours ago by The End

Great video as part of the campaign against Internet Censorship in Australia. Spoofing on Sensodyne.

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12 hours ago by Owen Good

Australia isn't the only nation receiving a powercleaned version of Left 4 Dead 2. Germany, no doubt because of the killerspiele hysteria, has a similarly sanitized demo. But guess what, it also runs 40 percent faster. PC Games Hardware benchmarked both the uncut Left 4 Dead 2 and the censored Germa ...

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12 hours ago by Owen Good

Australia isn't the only nation receiving a powercleaned version of Left 4 Dead 2. Germany, no doubt because of the killerspiele hysteria, has a similarly sanitized demo. But guess what, it also runs 40 percent faster. PC Games Hardware benchmarked both the uncut Left 4 Dead 2 and the censored Germa ...

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