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Lorrie Cranor - Privacy Nudges and Self-Censorship on Social Media
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Unnecessary Censorship Feat. RWBY
Inspired by Jimmy Kimmel #39;s Unnecessary Censorship.

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The ACLUs Project on Speech, Privacy, and Technology (SPT) is dedicated to protecting and expanding the First Amendment freedoms of expression, association, and inquiry; expanding the right to privacy and increasing the control that individuals have over their personal information; and ensuring that civil liberties are enhanced rather than compromised by new advances in science and technology. The project is currently working on a variety of issues, including political protest, freedom of expression online, privacy of electronic information, journalists rights, scientific freedom, and openness in the courts.

Additional Resources

What Is Censorship? (2006 resource): Censorship, the suppression of words, images, or ideas that are "offensive," happens whenever some people succeed in imposing their personal political or moral values on others. Censorship can be carried out by the government as well as private pressure groups. Censorship by the government is unconstitutional.

Artistic Freedom (2006 resource): Provocative art and in-your-face entertainment put our commitment to free speech to the test. Why should we oppose censorship when scenes of murder and mayhem dominate the TV screen, when some art can be seen as a direct insult to religious beliefs, and when much sexually explicit material can be seen as degrading to women? Why not let the majority's morality and taste dictate what others can look at or listen to?

Brief Timeline on Censored Music (2005 resource)

Censorship at the Smithsonian (2010 blog)

Booksellers, Publishers, Librarians and Others Challenge Censorship Law (2008 press release)

ACLU and Drug Policy Groups Sue Over Censorship of Advertisements Criticizing "War on Drugs" (2004 press release)

Film Censorship: Noteworthy Moments in History (2006 timeline)

Print Censorship - Banned Books Week (2006 resource)

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FreeSpeechMe: Open-Source Protection from Censorship and Hijacking for Firefox
FreeSpeechMe, the Open-Source Anti-Censorship Anti-Hijacking Dot-Bit Plug-in for Windows and Linux. WEBSITE: http://www.freespeechme.org Indiegogo crowd-fund...

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February 06, 2014

Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan talks to the media in Istanbul February 3, 2014. Dozens of their colleagues are in prison or on trial, thousands of faceless opponents hound them on Twitter, and phone calls from government officials warn them over their coverage - all hazards of the trade for Turkey's journalists. Government critics who refuse to be muzzled can find themselves sacked. Reuters pic, February 6, 2014. Turkish MPs late yesterday adopted new Internet legislation roundly criticised as a fresh assault by Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan on freedom of expression, access to information and investigative journalism.

The proposals come amid parallel moves by Erdogan to push through contentious judicial reforms as he fights to keep the lid on a deeply damaging corruption probe entangling some of his closest allies.

After hours of debate, during which opposition MPs blasted the bill as 'censorship', the measures were adopted in the chamber, where Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) dominates with 319 of the 550 seats.

The bill extends what are already hefty Internet curbs in place under a controversial 2007 law that earned Turkey equal ranking with China as the world's biggest web censor according to a Google transparency report published in December.

The text notably permits a government agency, the Telecommunications Communications Presidency (TIB), to block access to websites without court authorisation if they are deemed to violate privacy or with content seen as 'insulting'.

Yaman Akdeniz, law professor at Bilgi private university in Istanbul, said the powers given to the TIB were 'Orwellian'.

This body will also be able to request users' communications and traffic information from hosting providers obliged to retain up to two years' worth of data without a court order, Akdeniz told AFP.

The measures, Akdeniz said, will "move Turkey away from the European Union in terms of Internet policy, perhaps a few steps closer to China", where the web is heavily censored by the communist authorities.

At the start of the debate, opposition lawmaker Hasan Oren had harsher words, comparing Erdogan to Hitler.

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Tony Abbott, Australias prime minister, said he was worried and concerned by ABCs reporting of leaks concerning Australia from US whistleblower Edward Snowden. Photograph: Jason Alden/Bloomberg

Australias conservative prime minister Tony Abbott was a journalist in the 1980s, but that hasnt stopped him getting very close to calling for news censorship.

While some of Abbotts more right-wing Liberal Party colleagues see a Marxist plot every time they see or hear anything on the publicly owned Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), the prime minister plays a longer game by kicking the culture wars can on commercial radio.

In his latest interview with Sydney shock-jock Ray Hadley, Abbott said: A lot of people feel at the moment that the ABC instinctively takes everyones side but Australias. I think it dis- mays Australians when the national broadcaster appears to take everyones side but its own and I think it is a problem.

Abbott also said he was worried and concerned by ABCs reporting of leaks concerning Australia from US whistleblower Edward Snowden. The leaks revealed Australias spy agencies had tapped the phones of Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudohoyono and his wife in 2009.

The ABC seemed to delight in broadcasting allegations by a traitor, Abbott said. The ABC didnt just report what he said, they took the lead in advertising what he said and that was a deep concern.

The use of the word advertising was pointed. ABC doesnt have ads and there is no TV licence fee in Australia. It is funded by the government, getting $1.2 billion (788 million) this financial year.

Australias more moderate communications minister Malcolm Turnbull (whom Abbott deposed as leader of the Liberal Party while in opposition) said ABCs internal programming and editorial decisions were the responsibility of the ABC board and executive.

Entitled to opinionHe said while politicians were entitled to their opinion, they could not tell ABC what to broadcast. Whats the alternative . . . the editor-in-chief [of ABC] becomes the prime minister? Turnbull asked.

Greens leader Christine Milne also defended the broadcaster. What Tony Abbott is suggesting is that any news outlet, particularly the ABC, which is critical of any government policy, will come in for criticism from him. The ABC is independent. It is loved by Australians . . . it must be allowed to freely, fairly and fearlessly report the news.

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Australian prime minister accuses national broadcaster of being unpatriotic