WHYY reporter Elizabeth Fielder had her photo posted yesterday in the security station at the entrance of the Inquirer and Daily News building, along with instructions that she is not to be allowed on the premises.
This comes after Inquirer and Daily News reporters and editors had scheduled on-the-record interviews with Fielder about changes underway for the papers and Philly.com as the company simultaneously downsizes and prepares itself for sale.
Facebook’s trademark cops have shuttered an online art project critiquing the social media giant’s peepshow privacy policy.
Last Friday, German artist Tobias Leingruber launched a website, FBbureau.com, on which he proposed issuing unofficial Facebook ID cards, based on users’ profiles, that could one day replace driver’s licenses and passports. It was obvious satire – a way to comment on the astronomical amount of personal data that wafts around on Facebook.
Then three days ago, Facebook sent Leingruber a cease-and-desist letter, citing trademark violation. Leingruber complied and took the site down, after “a friendly conversation” with one of the company’s lawyers.
Twitter dropped quite the shocker last week when it declared its new policy to remove Tweets in certain countries to abide by specific national laws. While a tweet will remain visible to the rest of the world, specific messages will disappear in the target country, following requests by governments with vested interest in social media censorship.
http://blog.amnestyusa.org/business/repressive-regimes-rejoice-twitter-to-censor-content/
So you’re part of the global revolution and sick and tired of the censorship that you are facing from social networks such as Facebook (and now Twitter). What alternatives do you have at your disposal? Well for one, creating your own social network. A group of developers associated with OWS are doing just that. http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/occupy-wall-street-takes-the-fight-to-the-internet-with-its-own-facebook-clone/
Blogger David Seaman suspects his Twitter account was suspended and taken offline for talking too much about Occupy Wall Street
Here are text messages I sent to Larry Williams @ 1ZB: (think Rush Limbaugh with a New Zealand accent)
I’ll put the parts he read on air in normal text & the parts he censored out are in bold + italics.
It is of note that those parts of my texts which he DID read, he read at a mile a minute then went straight on to the next without any comment whatsoever as to their significance. Nor did they alter at all his dialogue/false accusations towards the Occupy movement throughout the remainder of his show.
Text 1: Our Bill of Rights trumps council by-laws. So does US constitution. In the USA courts are refusing warrants to arrest and throwing out charges. This movement is in 2,217 cities; its clout is way beyond Dunedin or Auckland.
Text 2: (Not read out at all) Search Twitter for Occupy_Police, there are USA Police, Military; Marines, Air Force, the works, involved in occupations. Google search Sgt. Shamar Thomas; this is a far different situation than your station is presenting.
Text 3: You Tube ‘occupy’ there are over 100,000 videos about this movement. Pls educate yourselves! Many occupiers are business owners, myself included!
Text 4: This guy saying what about the taxpayers and ratepayers – we paid 80k tax and 5k rates last year. Protest is legal under the Bill of Rights; of course Police don’t want to arrest us when they can’t arrest Eric Watson/Mark Hotchin et al. (Referring to finance company directors who bankrupted their clients while escaping personally with millions of investors dollars)
You might think – wow – its amazing that he read out any of my texts at all. I’d agree, except that, having heard the show personally, it seemed that he was beginning to read them out then immediately tossing them aside once he realised the direction they were heading in. Yet another poor performance from NZ’s #1 radio station which, just like Fox news, advertises itself on the premise of being “Fair and Balanced”. Lol!
Source: Facebook
I am dubious about this but taking it at face value, great news if You Tube is not censoring/deleting footage of occupy events. Especially considering said footage is actually historical documentation, unlike corporate-spun mainstream-media productions…
Source: Facebook
First Posted: October 28 at 12.07pm
This woman deserves a medal;. Instead she gets taken away by security. But her message gets across. No more violence. No more weapons. No more death. No more poor.
Oh look. Awesome. Another video on You Tube that now says:
“”END THE WARS & TAX THE RICH…”
This video is no longer available because the YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated due to multiple third-party notifications of copyright infringement from claimants including:
FOX News Network
Fox News Network, LLC
Fox News Network, LLC
Sorry about that.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i_a3qKZuwU&feature=share
Source: Facebook
First Posted: October 28 at 11:45am
The following link contains articles on the complicated relationship between Facebook and the Occupy Movement also covering the acts of censorship by the Social Network.
It should be noted that Facebook’s decisions to suspend accounts and remove posts also happens due to other members flagging Occupy posts as spam.
It is not unlikely that anti-Occupy users are simply flagging posts as spam so they will then be censored. However, as part of a whole picture of surveillance (often warrantless) of key Occupy supporters, there may be more going on behind the scenes than are likely to ever know.
https://plus.google.com/106301542716605390414/posts/TVSK7aTRLoQ
Source: Facebook
First Posted: October 27 at 10.43am
