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Europe makes moves toward Internet censorship
Privacy advocates worry that filtering Internet sites related to piracy, terrorism, and child pornography will have serious effects on the freedom to communicate
A debate over the use of internet filtering is heating up in Europe. Privacy advocates and carriers are going head to head with authorities.
In Finland, programmer Matti Nikki is under investigation for publishing [...]
Australia To Enforce Mandatory Chinese-Style Internet Censorship
The Australian government is set to impose Chinese-style Internet censorship by enforcing a universal national filter that will block websites deemed “controversial,” as part of a wider agenda to regulate the Internet according to free speech advocates.
The Government will block “controversial” websites with a universal national filter.
A provision whereby Internet users could opt out of [...]
Air Force Creates “Counter Blog” Response Plan To Quell Online Dissent
Detailed flow chart orders officers to respond to negative material
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Friday, Jan 9th, 2009
The US Air Force has announced a “counter-blog” response plan aimed at fielding and reacting to material from bloggers who have “negative opinions about the US government and the Air Force.”
The plan, created by the public affairs arm of the Air Force, [...]
Pentagon Propaganda Documents Go Online
John Stauber
Counterpunch
May 7, 2008
Eight thousand pages of documents related to the Pentagon’s illegal propaganda campaign, known as the Pentagon military analyst program, are now online for the world to see, although in a format that makes it impossible to easily search them and therefore difficult to read and dissect. This trove includes the documents pried [...]
Pentagon Spending Billions on PR to Sway World Opinion
Associated Press
February 6, 2009
WASHINGTON– As it fights two wars, the Pentagon is steadily and dramatically increasing the money it spends to win what it calls “the human terrain” of world public opinion. In the process, it is raising concerns of spreading propaganda at home in violation of federal law.
An Associated Press investigation found that over [...]
