Ryan Higa is Right Censorship is Un-Called 4
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Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate
For over a generation, shocking cases of censorship at America #39;s colleges and universities have taught students the wrong lessons about living in a free society. This video explains how higher education fails to teach its students to become critical thinkers by supercharging ideological divisions, promoting groupthink, and encouraging an unscholarly certainty about complex issues. For more on this issue, read Greg Lukianoff #39;s new book Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate. Visit http://www.unlearningliberty.comFrom:encounterbooksViews:134 31ratingsTime:05:22More inNonprofits Activism
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Censored Lecture
A twist on censorship. For my media class.From:MrGordyViews:1 0ratingsTime:04:38More inEducation
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Russia's political opposition is active on the Internet, but maybe not for long. A new youth protection law allows the blocking of websites - and that could take critical opposition sites off the web.
There are no photos, just uninspiring legal texts on zapret-info.gov.ru; it's an unspectacular website set up by Roskomnadzor, Russia's Federal Surveillance Service for Mass Media and Communications.
Since November 1, 2012, people can access the state agency's data bank to check which websites Russian authorities have blocked. Critics are describing the data base as a blacklist. For a time, authorities blocked access to a popular site called lurkmore.to, which describes itself as a humoristic encyclopedia of modern culture, folklore and sub-culture. The site, authorities argued, glorifies drug consumption. Following massive protest, the block was cancelled.
The list is supposed to include websites with content harmful to minors, along the lines of new legislation to protect children signed by President Vladimir Putin in summer. The law aims to help ban child pornography, drug-dealing or details on how to commit suicide from the Internet. "We have the right to protect our children," Putin told Russian TV.
A smokescreen?
The new law is controversial: the German parliament has already expressed its concern. A motion, proposed by the coalition parties and supported by the opposition Greens, was passed on Friday (09.11.2012), saying that a blacklist threatens to become "an instrument to limit freedom of expression and impose widespread censorship on the Internet."
The motion called on Chancellor Angela Merkel to demand greater democracy, rule of law and compliance with human rights in Russia when she meets President Putin.
The topic is also likely to be raised when German and Russian business people, lawmakers and civic groups come together for the 12th annual Petersburg Dialogue in Moscow, which starts on Wednesday (14.11.2012). Freedom of information on the Internet is on the agenda there.
Russia's new youth protection law allows for the blocking of websites. Sites set up by the political opposition may also be affected if their Internet Protocol (IP) addresses coincide with those of websites deemed a threat. In July 2012, authorities blocked access for hours to the website of the prominent Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny. The Internet provider said it was because the site had the same IP address as an extremist site.
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Concerns over Internet censorship in Russia
We mapped Googles transparency data to see which countries want online content removed and why. It turns out that censorship is in the eye of the beholder.
Google released data today that shows requests for censorship and surveillance are on the rise worldwide. Google keeps track of government requests to remove its content (requests itsometimes abides) and releases data biannually. We mapped those numbers, which include July 2010 through June of this year, to show the main products each government is targeting and the reasons they gave for doing so.
What it shows is that censorship varies greatly across the world some of which stretches the definition of what people usually define as censorship. For example, since the reports began in 2010, the United Kingdom has led the way with 97,891 removal requests, 96,280 of which were for Googles AdWords.
But the majority of the U.K.s removal requests occurred in 2010 at the behest of the U.K. Office of Fair trading, which asked for the removal of fraudulent ads that linked to scams, according to the July-December 2010report. Google removed nearly all of them, more than 93,000 items.
Other nations engage in a much more traditional at least in a Western sense censorship. Thailand, for example, has far fewer government removal requests (431), all of which are directed at YouTube forcriticizingThailands king.The latest numbers show in the last six months Turkey and the United States have led the world in data removal requests.
Whats perhaps most interesting about the data are the reasons Google was asked to take down content. They provide insight into a governments priorities and rationale. While Brazil and Hong Kong arediligentabout copyright requests, they are so for different reasons: Brazil had 11,613 removal requests directed at Picasa Web Albums, Hong Kong directed its 381 at YouTube. Countries across the world cited pornography as a reason for removal, with Turkey as the most aggressive (557).
And while defamation was the leading worldwide excuse for removal requests, the products that caused the defamation varied greatly, from Web Search to Blogger to AdWords. Take a look at each country to see its frequency and reasoning for petitioning Google.
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Privacy to porno: What censorship means around the world [map]