Posts Tagged censor

In Britain, Better Not Call It Bogus Science

Geoffrey.landis writes ‘In Britain, libel laws are censoring the ability of journalists to write stories about bogus science. Simon Singh, a Ph.D. physicist and author of several best-selling popular-science books, is currently being sued by the British Chiropractic Association (BCA) for saying that there is no evidence for claims that visiting a chiropractor has health [...]

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In Britain, Better Not Call It Bogus Science

Geoffrey.landis writes ‘In Britain, libel laws are censoring the ability of journalists to write stories about bogus science. Simon Singh, a Ph.D. physicist and author of several best-selling popular-science books, is currently being sued by the British Chiropractic Association (BCA) for saying that there is no evidence for claims that visiting a chiropractor has health [...]

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Protect Your Privacy Rights

When the Internet helped foster nationwide protests in Iran, EFF published a new international edition of our Surveillance Self-Defense guide, explaining how dissidents could avoid government eavesdropping and censorship.

Google’s new Book Search service will track everything you read, creating a dossier that’s ripe for abusive government demands. EFF rallied authors, publishers, and users together to [...]

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Australia’s Bizarre Classification System For Internet Censorship

stavros-59 writes “Australia’s internet censorship watchdog, ACMA, uses an internet classification system originally intended for children’s PC filters. ACMA has now made what must be the most amazing recent decisions of the whole bizarre censorship debate. The Register today has a story about ACMA’s decision to force Apple to withdraw their ITMS gift feature from [...]

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Chinese Schools Ax Green Dam Censorship Software

eldavojohn writes “China’s controversial Green Dam Internet Filter died on new PCs a month ago but it wasn’t until recently that Chinese schools silently removed it. Claims that the software inhibited work in schools was cited as the reason by Reuters. “We will remove all Green Dam software from computers in the school as it [...]

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Improving DMCA Takedowns at Blogger, Flickr

In the past couple weeks, two major online service providers, Blogger and Flickr, announced improvements to their DMCA takedown policies. EFF had a hand in both: Blogger contacted us to discuss their improvements, and we contacted Flickr to raise some concerns we had. We’re glad to see these improvements, which make the process more [...]

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