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Report: Zuckerberg Meets With China's Censorship Chief
2016-03-21 18:05:47| PC Magazine Security Product Guide
But it's unlikely a free and open Facebook will launch anytime soon.
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09.28: Banned Books Week: Censorship and the First Amendment
2015-08-24 01:03:52| Powells Books Events Calendar
The First Amendment plainly states that government shall make absolutely "no law" restricting our freedom of speech. Equally clearly, from banned books onward, that has not been our history. What, then, are the reaches and limits of government control of our speech, especially with regard to race, sex, politics, or morality? Is control by "the marketplace of ideas" a better fit for a free society? How are free speech and privacy often diametrically opposed — and how do we balance them? In a talk entitled "May Government Control Our Speech and Expression, and If So, How and When?," First Amendment lawyer Duane Bosworth explains these tensions in today's society.
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Cuba, amid the censorship, wades into WiFi
2015-01-11 06:29:48| Wireless - Topix.net
Cuba, where Internet access is largely limited to government employees and pricey pay-by-hour public access, plans to start offering wireless service for the first time this month, officials said Saturday. Wireless Internet connections -- for laptops, smartphones or tablets -- will get a limited rollout through state-run Etecsa in Cuba's second-largest city, Santiago de Cuba.
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Opinion: Censorship of skinny models is also body-shaming
2015-01-07 23:08:01| Apparel - Topix.net
An photograph advertising polka-dotted underwear was banned from Urban Outfitters website in the United Kingdom after the model was deemed to be too underweight. Credit: Screenshot of Urban Outfitters' American website.
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Samuel Adams beer boss Jim Koch: 'Germany's Reinheitsgebot becoming like artistic censorship'
2014-11-12 02:02:32| Beverages - Topix.net
The Boston Beer Company founder and Samuel Adams brewer Jim Koch has compared Germany beer purity law Reinheitsgebot to artistic censorship and suggests it is stifling innovation in the nation's beer market. At a keynote speech in Nuremberg, Germany to mark the opening of Brau Beviale 2014, Koch spoke passionately about innovation in US craft beer - 8% of the US market by volume and 13% by value - and said brewers had many more choices than winemakers or distillers.