Tag Archives: freedom of speech
Army pauses recruiting on Twitch after First Amendment criticism
Former Google exec says he was pushed out for defending human rights
Google's former global head of international relations claims he was pushed out of the company for trying to protect free expression and privacy in China. In a letter shared today, Ross LaJeunesse says that, after 11 years of working to protect human...
The internet is Dying Like TV
On Wednesday Jennifer Granick gave a speech on the freedom of internet. Granick is from the University of Stanford. Granick is also a lawyer and director of civil liberties at the Center for Internet...
Neil Young Supports Boycott Over Starbucks and Monsanto Connection In Anti-GMO Lawsuit
Rock legend Neil Young's taking on Starbucks after the company joined with GMO giant, Monsanto, to sue Vermont for more strict food labeling. But Snopes debunks Starbucks involvement. So what’s the...
Twitter warned by Indian government to kibosh inflammatory tweets
India's in the midst of a security crisis and has asked Twitter to curtail "inflammatory messages" or prepare to face legal action, according to the Times of India. The country has shut down numerous websites, while Google and Facebook have already pledged to remove any threatening content. Officials reportedly said that Twitter "failed to cooperate" in efforts to curb messages or help the government find their source, despite an earlier pledge by the social network to censor content when a country demanded it. Indian ISPs have started blocking the service's accounts, according to TNW, but not Twitter itself, as the site first reported. In any case, the country still has a long way to go to catch the censorship leader.
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Twitter warned by Indian government to kibosh inflammatory tweets originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 22 Aug 2012 07:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Times of India | Email this | Comments Internet Defense League forms with support of EFF and Mozilla, bills self as ‘bat signal’ of the web
It looks like the Dark Knight Rises hysteria is affecting more than just spoiler-averse fans. Billing itself as the "internet's bat signal," the newly formed Internet Defense League is a collective of companies, websites and non-profit groups-- including the EFF, Mozilla, Reddit and WordPress -- banding together to nip future SOPAs and PIPAs in the bud. The IDL will officially launch today, and according to its website it's enlisting web denizens to sign up and "broadcast an action" when net freedoms appear to be under threat. The League is really milking that Batman metaphor to full effect; it will broadcast its logo, a cat that looks plenty eager to tackle all foes of speech, into the sky in five cities around the world, including, interestingly, Ulan Bator, Mongolia.
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Internet Defense League forms with support of EFF and Mozilla, bills self as 'bat signal' of the web originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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