http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/censorship/ en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:53:11 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418327/posts The TSA (Transportation Security Administration) are the folks at airports who watch you go through the metal detectors, check your luggage, etc. There role is much more than what you see at the Airport gate, the TSA consists of 50,000 security officers, inspectors, directors, air marshals and managers who protect the nation's transportation systems so we can travel safely. Needless to say the TSA has had a challenging couple of weeks. First they accidentally posted their procedures guide on the net, and while the secret parts were blacked out, there are software programs that can help people with nefarious intent... The Lid/Various http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418327/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:53:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417522/posts I've been fighting against Canada's censorious and corrupt human rights commissions for nearly four years now; it was in February of 2006 that the print edition of the Western Standard, may it rest in peace, reprinted the Danish cartoons of Mohammed to illustrate a news story. The "human rights" nuisance suits against the magazine, and me as its publisher, began immediately after that. But it wasn't until December of 2007, when Maclean's magazine got swiped by the jihadists at the Canadian Islamic Congress, and January of 2008, with my own interrogation at the hands of Alberta's HRC, that I came... Ezra Levant http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417522/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:36:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416996/posts Google has begun to spike the "suggestions" which appear via "AJAX" when you enter "Baucus" into the Google search box. Yesterday, the first suggestion at the top of the list was "Drunk". Today, even if you type in the entire phrase "Baucus Drunk" - the suggestion is GONE. This is that annoying feature of Google's whereby stories that reflect negatively upon Democrats disappear and/or get quickly 'modified' or hidden, while anything even slanderous against a Republican or especially Sarah Palin will zip to the top of the rankings and STAY THERE. What the Google AJAX suggest algorith suggested yesterday. You... Google http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416996/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:25:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414611/posts This year, America is receiving a subliminal holiday message that Nativity scenes pose a more imminent threat than Gitmo detainees being tried on American soil. Regardless of personal Christmas traditions, most Americans agree that the Nativity visually represents the biblical story of Jesus’s birth. Thus, controversial crèche issues are not about Christmas, but Christianity. Founding Father Thomas Jefferson said that “[t]he Bible is the cornerstone of liberty … Students’ perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.” Who could have foreseen the First Amendment becoming a secular platform to warn public schoolchildren to... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414611/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:12:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413741/posts During the 70 years that the communists controlled the Soviet Union, they had a peculiar way of teaching history to the people. They would teach things as historical fact that never happened. If you were one of those who took umbrage with their revisionist history lessons, you would soon find yourself living in a tiny apartment in a part of the country where they laugh at anyone who claims the world is getting warmer. In a communist country this is the only way to convince the masses that they are actually better off than anyone in the history of... Enterprise Record Post Scripts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413741/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:19:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413280/posts Australians will soon find their internet access routed through a government-run filter designed to block access to a secret blacklist of sites, including those that disseminate child pornography. Google slammed the move as "heavy-handed" and one Australian politician called it a "move towards censorship". It is not, however, radically different from plans already in place elsewhere. Most of the UK's internet service providers already filter their content using an industry-run blacklist maintained by the Internet Watch Foundation. ISPs are not forced to comply, but they will be if European Union proposals announced this summer are enacted. There are plenty... New Scientist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413280/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:25:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411668/posts How Wikipedia’s green doctor rewrote 5,428 climate articles ... Connolley took control of all things climate in the most used information source the world has ever known – Wikipedia. Starting in February 2003, just when opposition to the claims of the band members were beginning to gel, Connolley set to work on the Wikipedia site. He rewrote Wikipedia’s articles on global warming, on the greenhouse effect, on the instrumental temperature record, on the urban heat island, on climate models, on global cooling. On Feb. 14, he began to erase the Little Ice Age; on Aug.11, the Medieval Warm Period. Financial Post (National Post) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411668/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:24:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411585/posts In a DU discussion (name calling and pettiness) forum about Fox News, I posted a link to a poll ( http://imfoxnews.com/ )that asked if Fox leaned further to the right than left. I asked for comments (and put on my helmet) None They apparently do not even want their subscribers to see any other view. I was suspended from posting and my post deleted. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411585/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:28:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408088/posts United Nations security officials have once again prevented a journalist from asking attendees at the climate change conference in Copenhagen questions about the growing ClimateGate scandal. This time, the person on the receiving end of the apparently forbidden queries was Nobel Laureate Al Gore. Much as when Ireland's Phelim McAleer tried to ask Stanford professor Stephen Schneider questions Thursday about the controversial e-mail messages obtained from the British Climatic Research Unit last month, McAleer was similarly rebuffed by Gore and his entourage Monday. Not only did the former Vice President completely refuse to answer questions about his blatant misrepresentations of... Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408088/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:45:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2408047/posts Ian Baker-Finch -- former PGA golfer-turned-announcer -- told the Sydney Morning Herald yesterday, "Mate, if I say one word about Tiger, I will get fired." TMZ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2408047/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:56:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2405797/posts Phelim McAleer is an investigative journalist who spends much of his time debunking the Global Warming hoax. It was McAleer who asked a question of Al Gore a few months ago that caused the former VP's head to start melting (video at end of this post). McAleer is also the director and producer of Not Evil Just Wrong documentary which looks at how environmental extremism is damaging the lives of the most economically vulnerable populations (see trailer below) Today the "Global Warming Mafia" gave new credence to the charges raised by Climategate, that there has been a concerted effort to... Big Government/The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2405797/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:53:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2401858/posts Mara Liasson is the national political correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR) and also regularly appears on Fox News Channel's Special Report and Fox News Sunday. It is incredible how far the Obama administration may have taken its "war" on Fox news. According to Politico, NPR, which is partially funded by the US Government, tried to strong-arm Liasson off of Fox News. Politico/The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2401858/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 05:57:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2401586/posts Concerned that “casual” and “irregular” so-called journalists are “confusing” the American people. Senators Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) have introduced legislation that attempts to “draw the line between legitimate and illegitimate purveyors of news.” The legislation, Senate Bill 448, would define a legitimate journalist as a person working as a salaried employee of, or independent contractor for, a recognized publisher or broadcaster of news. Those falling outside this definition would be denied the privileges granted to established news media under freedom of the press. “The American people need to be protected from being misled by unauthorized sources,” Feinstein... A Semi-News/Semi-Satire from AzConservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2401586/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 18:03:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2401461/posts Is this the beginning of the end of big media? I kicked my heels on the way to work today, felt a zing of joy in the crisp winter air. Blogistan kicked some arse this week – MSM; yooor boys took one hell of a beating! Climategate of course. The story that big media and government tried to kill with censorship, obscurity, inaction and faint, misleading one para stores. But the blogosphere simply would not let it die. More than that, the superb range of analysis poured into the subject by bloggers and commenters developed and expanded the story in... The Briefing Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2401461/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 13:59:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400089/posts Google News is blocking all searches of "Climategate". Proof:site:news.google.com climategatesite:news.yahoo.com climategate (for comparison)site:news.aol.com climategate (for comparison) Click on any of the above links to run the search and see for yourself. However, if you search "climate change" on Google News, you will find plenty of hits:site:news.google.com climate change Google News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400089/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 12:56:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398497/posts Although creation-based organizations have reported for over a decade on the technical scientific journal articles published about soft tissue found inside dinosaur remains, mainstream media outlets have largely been silent on the subject. But a recent segment that aired on CBS’s 60 Minutes finally broke the news to a broader audience. The soft tissue issue may be gaining more traction, and even “may be changing the whole dino ballgame,” according to correspondent Lesley Stahl.[1] The program is currently viewable online at the CBS website. In a field test demonstration to determine whether a dinosaur fossil was real bone, and not... ICR News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398497/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 16:28:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397321/posts ClimateGate: Britain's Climate Research Unit now says it will release all its data. Does that include the data that have been shredded, deleted and denied publication? In a statement released Saturday by the University of East Anglia, where the CRU is located, it was announced that all unit data, including data that had been denied climate skeptics, would soon be released to prove this is much ado about nothing. Unimpressed by the news is David Holland of Northampton, a grandfather with a background in electrical engineering, who is seeking prosecution of the CRU scientists involved in suppressing and even destroying... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397321/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 02:10:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2396298/posts Originally I just saw a "thread pulled" message, but now it has: "Site has links to trutherism, don’t post it here again" So now content is banned because the site *links* to objectionable content? I'd suggest that's true of most major news outlets for one thing. "Free"republic should support "free speech", it's one of the cornerstones and strengths of our system. Censorship is the antithesis of the American system. Self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2396298/posts#comment Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:03:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2395729/posts The archive contains eight stories censored or removed from the on-line archives of the Guardian, Observer, Telegraph and New Statesman. Seven stories were removed in their entirety and one partly redacted following legal pressure by Iraqi-British billionaire fraudster Nadhmi Auchi who has been linked to US senator Barack Obama via the so-called “Rezko Affair”. The action was taken during April-June 2008. The material complements the Wikileaks release a few days ago of a significant 2004 Pentagon Inspector General's report into Mr. Auchi's, apparently grossly fraudulent, activities in Iraq — see US Defense Inspector General: Mobile Telecommunications Licenses in Iraq, 2004.... Political Damage http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2395729/posts#comment Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:42:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395142/posts FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski appeared to have visited executive branch offices 47 times between January 20 and August 31, according the the White House visitors log released today. By comparison, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner made only five appearances. Genachowski has had plenty to discuss with White House officials. Future disclosures will likely show a good number of more recent visits to talk about telecom issues--namely, his net neutrality proposals that reportedly caught some top technology and economic officials off-guard. The visitors log includes visits to the Executive Office Buidling, the Office of Management and Budget, and other White House-affliated offices. The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395142/posts#comment Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:55:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393091/posts Junk Science: Hacked e-mails from Britain's Climate Research Unit are only the latest evidence of climate fraud. Just ask NASA's James Hansen about the faking of climate data or EPA employees about the suppression of climate fact. For years, noted scientists and other global warming skeptics have been accused of being on the take, their research tainted and funded by grants from Big Oil and other fossil-fuel interests. Now, it turns out, it's the warm-mongers who are fudging the numbers and concealing the inconvenient truth. We don't know who "Deep Throat" is. But according to an interview in Investigate Magazine's... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393091/posts#comment Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:46:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393745/posts Websites should be obliged to remove "false rumors" while libel laws should be altered to make it easier to sue for spreading such "rumors," argued Cass Sunstein, Obama's regulatory czar. In his recently released book, "On Rumors," Sunstein specifically cited as a primary example of "absurd" and "hateful" remarks, reports by "right-wing websites" alleging an association between President Obama and Weatherman terrorist Bill Ayers. He also singled out radio talker Sean Hannity for "attacking" Obama regarding the president's "alleged associations." WorldNet Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393745/posts#comment Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:33:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392668/posts <p>FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin promises to limit her enthusiasm during her visit to North Carolina's Fort Bragg.</p> <p>The former Republican vice presidential candidate planned to sign copies of her new memoir at a post store Monday. Army officials say Palin will not make a speech, pose for photos, or personalize notes in the books she signs.</p> The AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392668/posts#comment Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:11:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2390163/posts The U.S. Army plans to prevent media from covering Sarah Palin's appearance at Fort Bragg, fearing the event will turn into political grandstanding against President Barack Obama, officials said Thursday ASSOCAITED PRESS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2390163/posts#comment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:19:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390107/posts Army officials plan to prevent media from covering Sarah Palin's appearance at Fort Bragg on Monday, saying they fear the event will turn into political grandstanding against President Barack Obama. Fort Bragg spokesman Tom McCollum told The Associated Press on Thursday that Army officials had decided to keep media away from Palin's book promotion at the North Carolina base. SNIP McCollum said the Army did not want the event to become a platform for Palin supporters to express political opinions "directed against the commander in chief." AP via Denver Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390107/posts#comment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:46:53 GMT