Tag: censorship
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Hillsboro’s War on Christmas
Two things burrow their way under my skin every year at Christmas, two sides of an ugly coin. The first and generally loudest are the inevitable cries about “a war on Christmas” that, at some point each year, generally when ratings are ebbing, are spewed by right wing trolls and other despicable human beings gleefully…
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Artist Detained Approaching Tiananmen Square 25th Anniversary
Despite fitful, stumbling progress China has yet to embrace the freedoms that should accompany its anything goes economic policies, and that has become particularly evident in the days leading up to the 25th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests and the massacre that followed. Catching my eye today was the arrest of an Australian artist,…
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Don’t Let Hollywood & Big Business Control The Internet!
Tell W3C: We don’t want the Hollyweb! “Hollywood is at it again. Its latest ploy to take over the Web? Use its influence at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to weave Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) into HTML5 — in other words, into the very fabric of the Web. Millions of Internet users came together…
Old Road Apples 