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more about #censorship more comments → Dr. Nick: fortunately, this shirt is still available in China #barackobama more » Beau Nerd: Shepard Fairey missed a golden opportunity, here. #barackobama more » AndPreciousLittleofThat: The Audacity of Nope. #barackobama more » Swifter: The Roman Empire would have mercilessly crucified Santa and all his Elves. We merely enslaved and sold them off to Keebler where today they work in h... more » raincoaster: Well, as you all know, I'm a raging bitch. And as you may not know, the total number of tweets I've made seems to be going DOWN rather than up lately.... more » Matt Cherette: Let's test it out. All one needs to do is: 1. Make a new Twitter account (or use an already-established one), 2. make sure it's public -- so that i... more » mbroomall002: I'll wait for Eve Plumb's reaction before commenting further. more » skahammer: Well, but if Twitter drops the ball, who's going to protect me from Mickey Kaus then? Huh? The Hipster Grifter? Although on further reflection, I cou... more » Unsolicited Advice: Man, being a resident of a Huxleyan hierarchical state seems way better than tooling around in one of them totalitarian jobbies. #iran more » Jeangenie: My distributor handles the book he co-edited with Malu Halasa, Transit Tehran. You guys might remember seeing Mr. Bahari as one of Jason Jones' inter... more » bytememehard: Horrifying! You have a 646 exchange? #goldmansachs more » Trai_Dep: I love the Taibbi "vampire squid" reference on her tweet. Even the rank and file of Goldman Sachs are using it. #goldmansachs more » Urbania: It's only fair, given that I've banned checking out Goldman's website. They really lost their edge when Choire left. #goldmansachs more » Matt Cherette: She deleted the Twitter account! #goldmansachs more » Matt Cherette: Also, the Twitter account definitely seems legit. Look at this tweet from @woolyknickers: [twitter.com] and then Erin's response: [twitter.com] ... more » -
#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 » -
#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 » -
#goodnews
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 » -
#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 » -
#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 » -
#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 » -
#mediacrack
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 » -
#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 » -
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#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 » -
#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 » -
#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 » -
#brightideas
Let's Screw Up the Entire Internet to Save Newspapers
The hot new idea among people who think about "journalism," and the sanctity thereof: let's ban linking, on the internet! Let's also ban wheels, in order to save the horse industry. Let's also ban talking about things!
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#publicrelations
How Censorship Finally Helped Wikipedia's Co-Founder
Jimmy Wales had an image problem. After bending his online encyclopedia's rules for a lover and, allegedly, for a benefactor, the Wikipedia co-founder faced rebuke and embarrassment. Then the New York Times made him a hero. More » -
#censorship
Is the Associated Press Aiding Iranian Censorship?
Trying to report from a country like Iran under state-mandated censorship is hard. The Associated Press is making it harder by caving to the demands of the Iranian regime and refusing to allow its Iranian subscribers to use this photo. More » -
#foreignaffairs
Good Morning, Iran
All of a sudden, thanks to Twitter and Bill Keller, Iran is like the biggest story of the year! What's the latest? Killings in the street, a president on the run, media in peril, and a Florida 2000 recount replay: More » -
#transmissionissues
BBC's Satellites Get Iran-Jammed While CNN's Coverage Gets Jumped By Twitter Users
Fitting: while CNN gets a Twitter beatdown for neglecting to adequately cover the Iranian election, the Iranian government's blocking the BBC's (stellar) reporting of the aftermath following yesterday's results. Peter Horrocks, the (very pissed off) BBC chief, writes: More » -
#redacted
Is The Economist Being Censored In Post-War Sri Lanka?
Maybe. There's a report out there of shipments of the latest issue of The Economist being held back in customs. In the issue is an article about the Sri Lankan government's "unpleasant triumphalism" over the Liberation Tigers. [ICT] -
#disasters
Yahoo Nukes Man's Photos Over Obama Comments
Flickr user Shepherd Johnson was browsing the official White House photostream one night when he decided to post a politically-charged comment. Then another, then another. Soon, without warning, Yahoo's photo-sharing service deleted his account, complete with 1,200 pictures.
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#redacted
Why Did the Huffington Post Censor the Jewish Obama Hate Speech Video?
So: remember that terrible, shocking video of the awful frat-tards spewing racial epithets, screaming and trashing President Barack Obama in ways so debase, they're really not even worth quoting here? Well, The Huffington Post actually censored it. Why? More » -
#censorship
The Case for Insane Scientology Cyborgs on Wikipedia
Wikipedia recently banned the Church of Scientology and its associates from contributing to the collaborative reference site. But maybe this is what the Scientologists wanted Wikipedia to do. More »
