AltWeeklies Wire
The Italians Were Right to 'Censor' Google
This column appears in print newspapers. If I were to write that you were (for example) a drug-addicted child pornographer, my editors would ask me if it was true and demand that I source my allegation. On the other hand, there are no gatekeepers online.
Tags: Google, censorship
George Carlin Showed Us the Importance of Being Offensivenew
Shit. Piss. Fuck. Cunt. Cocksucker. Motherfucker. Tits. I can think of hundreds of words more offensive than these in the English language: Lie. Murder. War. Politics. Fundamentalism. Apathy. O'Reilly.
Boulder Weekly |
Dale Bridges |
06-30-2008 |
Commentary
Paranoid Transit Agency Tries to Censor Bloggersnew
Southern California commuter-rail line Metrolink spends public money threatening critical websites.
L.A. Weekly |
Max Taves |
05-27-2008 |
Tech
It's Easy for Mobs to Crush Free Expression On the Webnew
Thanks to new, collaborative, social media networks, it's easier than ever for people to get together and destroy freedom of expression. They're going DIY from the bottom up -- instead of the way old-school censors used to do it, from the top down. Call it user-generated censorship.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
04-30-2008 |
Tech
Tech Advice for Dissident Bloggersnew
Blogging is free speech's last frontier against government suppression. It's cheap (free), accessible (easy), and worldwide in seconds (bitchin!). Governments in need of control over information know this -- and they're pissed. So how do you get the word out?
Charleston City Paper |
Joshua Curry |
04-23-2008 |
Tech
Artist Shows Censored and Uncensored Versions of Work at Two Museumsnew
For his new show, "Frenetic Engineering: censored/uncensored," artist Umberto Crenca is using two different museum sites to give audiences of diiffering sensibilities a choice.
Providence Phoenix |
Bill Rodriguez |
08-07-2004 |
Art
Ugly is the New Black: Young Should Resist Blandnessnew
We need a revolution of ugly and dangerous art in response to Clear Channel's censorship of an antiwar billboard.
Metroland |
John Rodat |
07-29-2004 |
Commentary
