WRITTEN BY Ibrahim Turner
I received a message asking me to send a message to Google to protest that URUKNET has been deleted from the News service of Google News, which means that no articles will show up when you search for them using the url: URUKNET
Not having heard of this site [...]
UPDATE!!! INFO FROM URUKNET Google must really have a thing against Uruknet. After Google News’ censorship now Uruknet disappears even on Google’s search engine.
Google stopped indexing Uruknet the middle of May. After Uruknet wrote (again!) many e-mails to Google (and again! we didn’t receive any reply) Google restarted indexing some (not [...]
UPDATED (See end of post for new version of the same incident)
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from Wired Blog
by Noah Shachtman
A study, written for U.S. Special Operations Command, suggested “clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers.”
Since the start of the Iraq war, there’s been a raucous debate in military circles over how to handle blogs — and the servicemembers who want to keep them. One faction sees blogs as security risks, and a [...]
Written by Kawther Salam
The Diakoniewerk, which is the owner and administration of Albert Schweitzer Haus in Vienna, a student home and cultural center affiliated with the evangelical church of Austria and which also organizes cultural activities and allows other organizations to hold cultural activities in Vienna, cancelled an event which had been organized by an [...]
All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values…and I say let’s get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old fashioned Constitution of the United States – and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. American Writer
Today marks the celebration of International Day of Press Freedom. Like many celebrations that we are called to recognise, rather than feel joy at how wonderful things are, we are reminded of just how much goes haywire. Reporters Without Borders lists those killed in 2007. They write that there has been: 129 journalists, 7 media [...]
