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SoCal school district bans the dictionary
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| Southern California's Menifee Union school
| district has banned the Merriam Webster's
| 10th edition from use in fourth and fifth
| grade classes, over this salacious
| definition of "oral sex": "oral stimulation
| of the genitals".
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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/26/socal-school-distric.html
Did Manchester United Ban Players From Using Social Networks... Or Alert People To Fake Accounts?
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| However, the BBC notes that there were
| three ManU players who were believed to
| have real Twitter accounts, and all have
| suddenly disappeared -- which suggests the
| real issue is that ManU banned players from
| using social networks to connect with fans.
| If that's true, it seems incredibly short-
| sighted. Yes, players need to be careful
| when communicating publicly, but blocking
| them off entirely doesn't help make fans
| any more loyal.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100120/1032367836.shtml
Howard Berman Concerned About Internet-Repressive Regimes, Except If They Help His Friends In Hollywood
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| Rep. Howard Berman (who represents
| Hollywood and is sometimes referred to as
| "the Representative from Disney" given his
| longstanding support for any law that
| increases the scope of copyright law) is
| apparently speaking out against "repressive
| internet regimes" such as those in China,
| while at the very same time being a strong
| supporter of ACTA which could push for very
| similar "secondary liability" rules for
| ISPs in the US that are the foundation of
| Chinese internet censorship.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100119/1134597817.shtml
Intro to TOR: how you can be an anti-censorship activist in your sleep
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| Here's a nice little introductory article
| on TOR, The Onion Router, a privacy-
| enhancing technology that helps you to
| circumvent national, corporate and school
| firewalls and enhance your anonymity.
| Originally developed by the US military to
| help communications get in and out of
| countries that heavily filter their
| networks, TOR is free/open software and is
| maintained by many volunteers around the
| world, including the Electronic Frontier
| Foundation.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/25/intro-to-tor-how-you.html
Word-map of net-censorship in China
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/25/word-map-of-net-cens.html
Are the geeks still beating their chests?
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| Earlier today my fellow iTWire writer
| Stephen Withers reported of a campaign to
| place a "black-out" pop-up page over 500
| Australian-based web pages in protest
| against the Federal Government's Internet
| Filter proposal.
|
| [...]
|
| We have to engage in a conversation with
| the general public, not continue to shout
| at them. So, as I started this piece, what
| will it prove? The answer unfortunately is
| very little.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/30721/1239/
Recent:
Clinton praised for Internet freedom speech
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| Clinton's announcement that fighting
| Internet censorship would be a top priority
| for the Department of State is welcome news
| for dissidents in Iran, said Ashraf, co-
| founder of AccessNow.org, a group focused
| on providing Internet tools allowing
| freedom of expression.
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http://www.techworld.com.au/article/333472/clinton_praised_internet_freedom_speech?fp=2&fpid=1&rid=1
Polish Internet Users Against the Censorship of the Net
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| Polish government wants to enforce Internet
| filtering to eliminate online gambling and
| child pornography. Everything for the
| benefit of our children, as this is the
| argument which is hard to stay against.
|
| However, a notable group of Polish lawyers,
| journalists, academics, enterpreneurs,
| politicians and bloggers think otherwise
| and signed a letter (written by myself,
| btw) to President of Poland, Lech
| KaczyÅski, asking him to turn the law down
| (in Polish legal system, president has the
| right to do this, but the parliament can
| then overcome presidentâs opposition if 2/3
| of the delegates vote for it).
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http://polishlinux.org/poland/polish-internet-users-against-the-censorship-of-the-net/
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