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Engagement in an age of declining press freedom
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.
Facebook getting more involved in journalism is still a bad idea
Do we really want to turn Facebook into an editorial beast?
bloggers
Blogger flees Pakistan "fearing for his life"
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. Saeedâ
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City Students Union votes to ban Mail, Sun and Express
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] ). Thatâs led to a student union
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Is Stop Funding Hate an attack on free speech?
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 OâNeill for The Spectator: > SFHâs agitation to pull ads from newspapers is not some simple, good, happy-clappy act of consumer
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Inside the Facebook censorship machine
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 Microsoftâs 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
Itâs for your protection. You donât want to be dirty [http://www.departmentofdirty.co.uk], do you?
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"Right To Censor" Watch
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/07/548769325_fa45ca523a_o.jpg] Well, itâs looking like the judgement that gives people the âright to be forgottenâ [http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2014-05/cp140070en.pdf] is rapidly becoming the âright to censorâ. In
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Seriously, Starbucks? It's just Tumblr...
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/02/seriously-starbucks-3557.html] Content blocking at work in Starbucks. Time to fire up the personal hotspot from my iPhoneâŚ
Automattic
Automattic backs WordPress bloggers in court
Parker Higgins [http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2013/12/wordpress-goes-to-court-to-defend-censored-bloggers/] : > The blogging platform WordPress.com has taken the unusual â and welcome â step of going to court to defend its users against bogus copyright claims aimed at silencing their speech on the platform. Automattic, WordPressâs parent company, has joined
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Cameron's porn policy problem
Good piece by Martin Bryant on the problems with Cameronâs default porn filtering plan: > This post youâre reading right now isnât pornographic, but itâs probably been blocked by lots of filters in libraries, cafĂŠs and workplaces, simply for using certain keywords. Itâs almost enough
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LeWeb: The media and Wikileaks
Adrian Monck is chairing a media panel, and inevitably weâre focusing on WikiLeaks. Weâve always had leaks, says Julio Alonso of Weblogs S. âThe WikiLeaks phenomenon is not new, but it has a different form. â The closing of Amazon and PayPal accounts , the problems with wikileaks DNS, are