tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35267862010-04-09T10:44:17.849-07:00Free Speech ... under attackNews and comment about restrictions on free speech in the U.S. and around the world.Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comBlogger183125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526786.post-35245093414351802702010-02-26T15:23:00.001-08:002010-04-08T20:56:02.621-07:00THIS PAGE IS NOW AN ARCHIVE ONLYAs of March 2010, Google is no longer supporting FTP publishing of it's Blogger blogs. Therefore I will be consolidating all of my blogs into a single front page format that I will be experimenting with and changing from time to time until I find something I like.Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526786.post-5947665436210930372009-07-06T07:19:00.000-07:002009-07-06T07:21:51.452-07:00Don't trust FOX News' print outlet, the Wall Street Journal[From Paul Krugman's blog July 3, 2009.]This morning's Wall Street Journal opinion section contains a lot of what one expects to see. There's an opinion piece making a big fuss over the fake scandal at the EPA. There’s an editorial claiming that the latest job figures prove the failure of Obama’s economic plan - something I dealt with in Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526786.post-79772629054449932532009-03-22T21:15:00.000-07:002009-03-22T21:21:22.318-07:00"Smart-Mob" Censorship at Google and YouTube(Marc Baber, www.opednews.com, June 21, 2007)I soon learned that Google has a feature called "SafeSearch" intended to "block web pages containing explicit sexual content from appearing in search results." By default, the SafeSearch feature is set to "moderate filtering" which supposedly only filters explicit sexual images. Many Google users are unaware Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526786.post-23416602157150446152008-12-01T16:32:00.000-08:002008-12-01T16:36:13.871-08:00Top 25 Censored Stories for 2008The above link will take you to details of the following stories: * #1 No Habeas Corpus for "Any Person" * #2 Bush Moves Toward Martial Law * # 3 AFRICOM: US Military Control of Africa's Resources * # 4 Frenzy of Increasingly Destructive Trade Agreements * #5 Human Traffic Builds US Embassy in Iraq * #6 Operation FALCON Raids * #7 Behind Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526786.post-39523658411519864682008-11-08T11:33:00.000-08:002008-11-08T11:45:10.236-08:00Mormons Abuse Right of Free Speech(Guy Adams, The Independent, 8 Nov 2008)Daniel Ginnes carried a banner declaring: "No More Mr Nice Gay." Brian Lindsey held up a sign billing Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of the Latter Day Saints, as a "prophet, polygamist, paedophile." Hundreds of others simply chanted: "Mormon scum."More than 2,000 gay rights protesters marched on a Mormon temple in Los Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526786.post-78869314966403121452008-11-04T06:55:00.000-08:002008-11-04T06:56:07.988-08:00George Carlin On Voting In US ElectionsThursday, March 13, 2008, 7:30pm - The Klein Memorial Auditorium. Bridgeport, CTLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526786.post-28994123467268478702008-10-02T11:20:00.000-07:002008-10-02T11:30:00.375-07:00Video Reporters Arrested While Trying to Cover the Republican ConventionThe work of the I-Witness Video collective was interrupted this past Saturday, August 30, 2008, when St. Paul police detained 7 members of the group (along with an assortment of other individuals) for several hours. The NYC-based video collective is in St. Paul to document the policing of the protests at the Republican Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526786.post-82997543082510337152008-09-29T19:47:00.000-07:002008-09-29T19:48:03.846-07:00Happy birthday to GNU! ... Open Source Rules!Software should be free, and the using community should be responsible for its development.For more information, please see: www.gnu.orgLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526786.post-18157382881618096882008-09-03T10:43:00.001-07:002008-09-03T10:43:47.618-07:00Storm Troopers Attack Student DemonstratorsLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526786.post-81215781270528644642008-09-01T19:53:00.001-07:002008-09-01T19:58:33.057-07:00Amy Goodman Muzzled by Fascist Storm Troopers at Republican ConventionDemocracy Now! radio host Amy Goodman and two producers were arrested while covering demonstrations at the Republican convention in St. Paul, Minn. Goodman was released after being held for over three hours, but is still waiting to hear when Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar would be released. . . . "I was down on the Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526786.post-70730222530261653292008-08-29T14:33:00.000-07:002008-08-29T14:34:09.592-07:00Police Attack Demonstrators at 2008 Democratic ConventionLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526786.post-34463414216590861802008-08-24T21:09:00.001-07:002008-08-24T21:11:50.680-07:00A Good Example of Free Speech At Work: FISA=FascismLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526786.post-38063878304651703462008-07-07T20:48:00.000-07:002008-07-07T20:49:02.240-07:00This is the kind of truthful comedy that keeps free speech aliveLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526786.post-22285058202478426192008-03-31T15:56:00.000-07:002008-03-31T16:00:54.143-07:00PrivacyFinder.org: Search, but with Privacy(Peter Eckersley, The Electronic Frontier Foundation, March 25, 2008)The level of privacy offered by search engines is generally woeful. Last year, the three big players (Google, Yahoo! and MSN) made some improvements by limiting the duration for full retention of logs about who has searched and what they've searched for. That means that after a year or Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526786.post-1153942222094396882006-07-26T12:12:00.000-07:002006-07-26T12:30:22.113-07:00Pentagon Censors Internet Combat Videos(Oliver Poole, The Telegraph, 26 July 2006)The Pentagon is asking US soldiers in Iraq to stop posting private combat videos on to the internet amid fears that they could be regarded as anti-Arab. . . . Many of the digital clips feature explosions, gunfire and even dead bodies, [COMMENT by Lorenzo: Hey, it's a fucking WAR. What they expect to see in these Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526786.post-1153922411503471532006-07-26T06:53:00.000-07:002006-07-26T07:00:11.523-07:00Hundreds of Iraq War Videos Online at YouTube.comIn case you missed the announcement, that evil bastard Rumsfeld is doing his best to keep cameras away from the front lines of the Bush Crime Family's attack on the civilian population of Iraq. But if you go to YouTube.com and search on "Iraq combat" (no quotes) you'll find hundreds of videos posted by U.S. troops.Here is one clip that shows how Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526786.post-1153351561379590652006-07-19T16:21:00.000-07:002006-07-19T16:26:01.566-07:00India bloggers angry at net ban(BBC News, 19 July 2006)India's burgeoning blogging community is up in arms against a government directive that they say has led to the blocking of their web logs. . . . The country's 153 internet service providers (ISP) have blocked 17 websites since last week on federal government orders. . . . Some of these sites belong to Google's Blogspot, a leading Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526786.post-1150071789338798122006-06-11T17:11:00.000-07:002006-06-11T17:23:09.496-07:00Hacktivists mount counter-offensive to Internet censorship(Nestor E. Arellano, ITWorld Canada, 08 Jun 2006)The arms race over Internet censorship is escalating. . . . A new weapon is being developed to help dissidents gain free access to the Web. . . . A team of Toronto-based "hacktivists" – hackers with a commitment to social responsibility – is beta-testing software that can circumvent InternetLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526786.post-1149004195624013492006-05-30T08:46:00.000-07:002006-05-30T08:49:55.640-07:00Bush Caught Planting Fake News Stories(Andrew Buncombe, The Independent, 29 May 2006)Federal authorities are actively investigating dozens of American television stations for broadcasting items produced by the Bush administration and major corporations, and passing them off as normal news. Some of the fake news segments talked up success in the war in Iraq, or promoted the companies' products. . Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526786.post-1146936074476807652006-05-06T10:17:00.000-07:002006-05-06T10:21:14.490-07:00Judges Challenge Internet Wiretap Rules(Ted Bridis, Associated Press, May 5, 2006)A U.S. appeals panel sharply challenged the Bush administration Friday over new rules making it easier for police and the FBI to wiretap Internet phone calls. A judge said the government's courtroom arguments were "gobbledygook." . . . The skepticism expressed so openly toward the administration's case encouraged Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526786.post-1144963498804221552006-04-13T14:19:00.000-07:002006-04-13T14:24:58.816-07:00Bush junta attempts to destroy evidence of its crimes(Christopher Lee, Washington Post, April 12, 2006)The National Archives helped keep secret a multi-year effort by the Air Force, the CIA and other federal agencies to withdraw thousands of historical documents from public access on Archives shelves, even though the records had been declassified. . . . In a 2002 memorandum, obtained through a Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526786.post-1144784105624776242006-04-11T12:19:00.000-07:002006-04-11T12:35:05.703-07:00Internet telephones threaten NSA's ability to spy on Americans(Shane Harris, National Journal, April 10, 2006)Among the threats facing the National Security Agency are Al Qaeda, the Iraqi insurgency, and eBay. . . . Yes, eBay, the online auction house. Not because its members sell state secrets, but because of a company that eBay purchased last year -- Skype. . . . Skype is an online service thatLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526786.post-1144592230836274762006-04-09T07:17:00.000-07:002006-04-09T07:17:10.850-07:00Federal Jury Indicts Mentally Ill Patient For Threatening Bush(Yvonne Lee, All Headline News, April 7, 2006)East St. Louis, IL (AHN) - A Palestinian mental health patient has been indicted on two felony counts of "knowingly and willfully" threatening to harm President George W. Bush. . . . The Associated Press reports federal grand jurors indicted Arafat Nijmeh on March 23. But it was only made Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526786.post-1134670728557267392005-12-15T10:18:00.000-08:002005-12-15T10:18:48.613-08:00U.S. Joins Cuba, Uzbekistan, and Myanmar in Jailing Journalists
(Dharam Shourie, December 14, 2005)
China, Cuba, Eritrea, and Ethiopia were the world's leading jailers of journalists in 2005, together accounting for two-thirds of the 125 editors, writers, and photo journalists imprisoned around the world, while US was for the first time listed among the top 10, the Committee to Protect Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3526786.post-1134554727493135632005-12-14T02:05:00.000-08:002005-12-14T02:05:27.540-08:00NOT GUILTY of 51 criminal counts - Free Speech Prevails
(Eric Lichtblau, Washington Post, December 7, 2005)
In a major defeat for law enforcement officials, a jury in Florida failed to return guilty verdicts Tuesday on any of 51 criminal counts against a former Florida professor and three co-defendants accused of operating a North American front for Palestinian terrorists. . . . The former Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.com