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#smut

Prude Australians Try to Ban Small Boobs and Female Ejaculation in Porn

Conservative Australian politicians are waging a War on Smut via pornography censor laws. Their latest uphill battle: A proposed ban on small boobs (which attract pedophiles) and squirting (which grosses them out). More »

01/29/10

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By Maureen O'Connor

#banned

China's Latest Justification for Internet Censorship

01/25/10

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China Responds to Calls for Internet 'Freedom'

Google, and then Hillary Clinton, called on China to stop censoring the web and open a transparent investigation into all the hacking that's been emanating from the country. They responded this morning, in a way that was not entirely warm. More »

01/22/10

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By Ravi Somaiya

#sexting

China Starts War on Sexting

01/20/10

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#censorship

Google China's New Take on 'Tiananmen Massacre'

Google announced it will stop filtering its China search engine — or shut the site. And already, once-suppressed results are showing up on Google.cn (see screenshot; top is current, bottom from June). That's the good news. The bad news? More »

01/13/10

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By Ryan Tate

#hackers

Google's Sudden, Self-Serving War with China

In an extraordinary blog posting, Google has all but accused the Chinese government of coordinating hack attacks on its servers, not just in China but in the U.S. and globally. And it's decided to finally push back against the regime. More »

01/12/10

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By Ryan Tate

#shutupcollege

College Kids Refuse to Censor Joke About Racism, Outraging Dumb People

A college humor magazine has written a satirical story on the subject of race, and they are refusing calls to take that story off their website, thereby bucking the important American college traditions of censorship and terrified racial silence. Outrageous! More »

12/18/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

#censorship

Blocked on Facebook: Gawker Facebook Privacy Guide

A reader sent in the attached screenshot, showing his fruitless attempt to post our guide to enhancing the privacy of your Facebook account. Apparently Facebook found that content to be "abusive." More »

12/15/09

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By Ryan Tate

#mediacrack

Big Ski Threatens Snow-Based Media Freedom!

In your tricky Tuesday media column: Ski Resorts are the Stasi of Colorado journalism, the White House press corps exercises its shit-eating grin, The New Yorker cuts its fiction, and a dead magazine overview. More »

12/15/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

#mediacrack

Click here to read Environmental Reporter Leaving <em>New York Times</em> Because Environment Is Fine Now

Environmental Reporter Leaving New York Times Because Environment Is Fine Now

In your special wingnutty Monday media column: Andrew Revkin is leaving the NYT, NPR hires a foreigner, China demonstrates how to keep newspapers in line, and Martha Stewart's still scared of us, and America. More »

12/14/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

#obamao

Communist China Tries to Protect Obama from Being Called a Communist

China banned these "Oba-Mao" T-shirts, which were selling at a brisk pace in Beijing, last week in an apparent effort to avoid embarrassing Barack Obama during his visit. The weird thing is, in China, it's a pro-Obama shirt. More »

11/16/09

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By John Cook

#conspiracytheories

Is Twitter Conspiring with Celebrities to Delete Your Mean Tweets?

Blogger Mickey Kaus likes to send nastygrams to famous people, on Twitter, when the mood strikes him. And yet these messages sometimes disappear from Twitter search, despite the microblogging service's well-established technical competence. Mere coincidence — ha! — or conspiracy? More »

10/29/09

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By Ryan Tate

#goodnews

Click here to read Iran Frees <em>Newsweek</em> Reporter

Iran Frees Newsweek Reporter

Maziar Bahari, the Canadian-Iranian Newsweek reporter who has been detained in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison since his arrest while covering the nation's post-election uprising in June, has arrived safely in London in time for the birth of his first child. More »

10/20/09

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By John Cook

#goldmanproject

Goldman Sachs Censors Gawker

It looks like Goldman Sachs is preventing its employees from reading Gawker. It's a precaution any workplace that values productivity might consider, especially an employer who's been targeted by a Gawker investigation. More »

10/19/09

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By John Cook

#streisandeffect

See the Toxic Dumping Memo an Extremely Stupid Company Tried to Censor in Britain

A Swiss-based oil trader was briefly successful yesterday in preventing a British newspaper's from reporting on public goings-on in Parliament, because those goings-on revealed the company's cover-up of its massive toxic-waste dumping. This is why the First Amendment is good. More »

10/13/09

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By John Cook

#censorship

Politico: Leakers, Please Take Your Unauthorized Obama Info Elsewhere

Politico's Ben Smith almost WON THE DAY with nice little scoop—the video of Barack Obama calling Kanye West a "jackass" during pre-interview banter with CNBC's John Harwood. But someone made him take it down. Why in the world? More »

09/16/09

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By John Cook

#mediacrack

Click here to read <em>Creativity</em> Folded Into <em>Ad Age</em>

Creativity Folded Into Ad Age

In your unforgettable Friday media column: Creativity magazine folds, a high school paper bravely outs its school's Jesus-tainted food supply, medical journals are full of ghostwriters, and the WaPo's most infamous marketer resigns. More »

09/11/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

#google

After All That Drama, Google China Loses Leader

Poor Google! The company's Chinese expansion hasn't been easy: they've been shamed for giving into government censors and continue to play second-fiddle to a state-supported competitor. And now they've lost their regional leader. What will become of the company? More »

09/04/09

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By Andrew Belonsky

#journalismism

NYT Blog Tries to Unpublish 'One of the Best Kept Secrets in Brooklyn.' Fails.

Yesterday, the New York Times' blog about the Fort Greene neighborhood published a post on a "secret underground climbing gym" in Brooklyn. Today, they took the post down. For a preposterous reason! Now it's getting way more attention. More »

07/10/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

#doublestandards

Magazine Newsstands: Hos Before Brünos

We knew that newsstands have been treating GQ's July cover, featuring a nude-but-not-all-hanging-out Sacha Baron Cohen is like porn. But a tipster at a Hudson News in Manhattan has noticed the decision has lead to some interesting juxtapositions. More »

07/08/09

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By John Cook

#controversies

Joe Jackson Pancake Painting a Little Too Intense For Corporate America

Speaking of important Michael Jackson news, pancake-painter-to-the-stars Dan Lacey has some! He painted this moving portrait of "Joe Jackson with a Michael Jackson memorial ticket and a pancake upon his head." Ebay is censoring it! More »

07/07/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

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