Despite the fact that the company has backtracked and says it no longer supports the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), GoDaddy is still taking it on the chin. Last week, the company lost over 72,000 domain name registrations as internet users initiated a GoDaddy boycott. At a discounted rate of $6.99 (on the low [...]
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Amid a firestorm of criticism, the House Judiciary Committee confirmed yesterday that it will, in fact, delay continuing debate on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) until after Congress returns from its winter recess. Committee spokeswoman Kim Smith said in an e-mail that the hearing is expected to be scheduled for “early next year.” After [...]
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Today, the U.S. government will vote to have broad powers to block any website. SOPA would not only hurt free speech, it will choke off the internet workforce and its readers by taking down entire websites. Today is our last chance to have our voices heard. It’s time to pull all stops – please make [...]
Want to learn a lot about the mainstream media here in the U.S.? Look no farther than Time magazine. Specifically, take a look at the different covers Time magazine uses here in the United States vs. other parts of the world. Good news, sheeple. It looks like revolution isn’t relevant news here in the good [...]
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What if you could end up spending fifteen years behind bars just for “liking” a page on Facebook? Sound unbelievable? Unfortunately, it’s all too common in Thailand, where freedom of expression does not exist, not even in social networks. According to Anudith Nakornthap, Minister of Communications and Technology for Thailand, “liking” or “sharing” Facebook pages [...]
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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has told a media summit today that the United States government is ordering Wikileaks to destroy all the material is has published on them and to cease and desist working with its sources within the government. “[When we released our documents] the Pentagon said we must destroy everything we published and [...]
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Google has been asked by a U.S. law enforcement agency to remove several videos exposing police brutality from YouTube, the company revealed in its latest update to an online transparency report. Another request filed by a different agency required Google to remove videos allegedly defaming law enforcement officials. The two requests were among 92 submissions [...]
A Brooklyn-based Hasidic newspaper has Photoshopped Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and counterterrorism director Audrey Tomason out of that now-iconic picture of the Obama national security team watching the tactical raid that killed Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room at the White House. The original photo shows Clinton seated with her hand covering her [...]
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In just 8 hours, the series finale of LOST will be broadcast on ABC at 9 p.m. EDT. To honor this historic day, Jimmy Kimmel ran a special edition of “This Week in Unnecessary Censhorship” on his late night show earlier this week. The segment usually represents Kimmel’s weekly jab at the FCC. This week, [...]
Trey Parker and Matt Stone are just fine, thank you very much…although you’d never know it by looking around on the internet tonight. Yet another baseless rumor is spreading on the web that the South Park creators are dead, having been killed at the hands of Muslims angry about the show’s recent depiction, and subsequent [...]
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