Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Examples of Web Censorship

Wikileaks.org, which posts documents leaked by whistle-blowers inside repressive countries, corporations or government agencies was ordered to be shut down (ineffectively) by a federal judge's order in Feb. 2008, after complaint from none other than a Cayman Islands bank! The judge removed his order after 10 days.

Inner City Press, a monitor of Wall St. and the United Nations, temporarily is delisted from Google News. The de-listing happened soon after Matt Lee of Inner City Press questioned Google's commitment to free expression.

In 2007, the consumer rights group CommonCause was blocked from placing an ad on My Space, owned by Rupert Murdoch, that challenged media conglomerates using a photo of Murdoch and the caption: "This is the face of Big Media."

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