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Hong Kong protesters turn to mesh networks to evade Chinas censorship
2014-09-30 14:29:01| Extremetech
The rather cramped streets of Hong Kong are currently lined with tens of thousands of people -- the Umbrella Revolution. The Chinese government, as always, has blocked and censored a number of social media sites so that mainland China can't see what's going on in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong protesters won't be so easily thwarted, however: They are already using a mesh networking app called FireChat, which allows the protesters to communicate freely without any kind of centralized cellular or WiFi network.
'Fox & Friends' Attacks Editor Exposed Climate Change Censorship
2014-05-02 02:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: "Fox & Friends" decided to get its revenge on Scientific American editor Michael Moyer after Moyer tweeted that the show's producers had barred him from discussing climate change. Moyer said he had been explicitly told to "pick something else" when he said he thought climate change was an important "future trend" to talk about. His decision to air this behind-the-scenes chat, as well as his subsequent tweets mocking the politics and some of the staffers on the show, led Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade...
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Bland Theft Auto: China censorship weighs on games consoles
2014-04-23 11:52:15| Electronics - Topix.net
China has fully lifted a 14-year ban on selling video game consoles, but foreign console makers hoping to make a killing in a potentially huge new market will first have to find a way around the country's onerous censorship rules.
Facebook Adds Censorship Data to Transparency Report
2014-04-12 02:34:28| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
Between July and December 2013, Facebook removed 4,765 pieces of content in response to requests from the Indian government, the most of any country.
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Activists to appeal US judge's ruling on Baidu's 'censorship as free speech'
2014-03-31 13:46:17| InfoWorld: Top News
A group of activists are hoping to appeal a U.S. judge's ruling that treated the censorship on Chinese search engine Baidu as free speech. In making the ruling, District Judge Jesse Furman equated the censorship to a newspaper exercising its editorial right to publish what it wants. But Stephen Preziosi, lawyer for the eight pro-democracy activists, said in an email Saturday that the comparison was wrong, and that the court had a "fundamental misunderstanding" of how search engines work.
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