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Engagement in an age of declining press freedom Members Public

Attacks on the independence of the press are underway in the UK and the US. Twitter is stripping context from thoughtful debates. The only antidote is thoughtful engagement work.

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Adam Tinworth
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Facebook getting more involved in journalism is still a bad idea Members Public

Do we really want to turn Facebook into an editorial beast?

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Facebook

Blogger flees Pakistan "fearing for his life" Members Public

In some parts of the world, blogging is still very much a revolutionary activity [http://indianexpress.com/article/world/second-missing-pakistani-blogger-found-leaves-country-fearing-for-life-family-4497420/] : > Pakistani blogger Aasim Saeed who went missing earlier this month has been found but has quickly left the country fearing for his life, his family said on Sunday. Saeed’

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Adam Tinworth
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City Students Union votes to ban Mail, Sun and Express Members Public

We are clearly living in interesting times. There are political moves afoot in the student union at City, University of London (where I lecture), to adopt the Stop Funding Hate approach (see post passim [https://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2016/11/stop-funding-hate-attack-free-speech.html] ). That’s led to a student union

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Is Stop Funding Hate an attack on free speech? Members Public

Stop Stop Funding Hate [http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/11/stop-funding-hate-nasty-elitist-campaign-press-censorship/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Lunchtime_Espresso_16112016] , says Brendan O’Neill for The Spectator: > SFH’s agitation to pull ads from newspapers is not some simple, good, happy-clappy act of consumer

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Adam Tinworth
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Inside the Facebook censorship machine Members Public

Fascinating interview with Monika Bickert [http://recode.net/2014/09/12/how-facebook-decides-between-censorship-and-safety/] , the head of global policy for Facebook: > We use technology to help us triage reports, and we also use Microsoft’s Photo DNA to help us prevent images of child exploitation from being uploaded to the site,

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And now - a message from the Department of Dirty Members Public

It’s for your protection. You don’t want to be dirty [http://www.departmentofdirty.co.uk], do you?

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Adam Tinworth
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"Right To Censor" Watch Members Public

[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/07/548769325_fa45ca523a_o.jpg] Well, it’s looking like the judgement that gives people the “right to be forgotten” [http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2014-05/cp140070en.pdf] is rapidly becoming the “right to censor”. In

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