http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/censorship/ en-us Fri, 3 Jul 2009 14:22:48 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284834/posts The other day Iris Evans, the Finance Minister of Alberta, gave a speech to the Economic Club of Toronto. And right at the end she suggested that parents ought to be prepared to make some economic sacrifice in order to be at home with their young kids. “When you’'re raising children,” she said, “you don’t both go off to work and leave them for somebody else to raise.” For some reason, David Swann, the Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition, felt this warranted an official statement from him. Can you guess what it said? Okay, stand well back: Macleans and Steynonline. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284834/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 14:22:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283444/posts Rush just brought up the Frank Lombard story and will be talking about it in this half hour. You can listen here on the internet. www.wrva.com  http://www.rushlimbaugh.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283444/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:27:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282650/posts For seven months, The New York Times managed to keep out of the news the fact that one of its reporters, David Rohde, had been kidnapped by the Taliban. But that was pretty straightforward compared with keeping it off Wikipedia. NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282650/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:54:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282593/posts China postponed a plan to require personal computer makers to supply Internet-filtering software Tuesday, retreating in the face of protests by Washington and Web surfers hours before it was due to take effect. Yahoo! Tech News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282593/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:55:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281640/posts Back in 2008, New York Times correspondent David S. Rohde, along with Afghan reporter Taki Luden, were abducted in Pakistan by the Taliban. Because they felt it might adversely affect hostage rescue efforts, the Times requested a news black-out. The Associated Press and other news agencies respected the request and only broke the story recently, after Rohde and Luden had scaled a wall and made their escape. It would be nothing other than a story with a happy ending, except that the Times has time and again ignored the government’s requests that it not report the specific ways in which... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281640/posts#comment Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:01:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279644/posts Thursday June 25, 2009 YouTube Bans New Video of Planned Parenthood Telling Customer Abortion Photos "Not Real" By Kathleen GilbertLOS ANGELES, California, June 25, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Live Action Films, the investigative group responsible for uncovering the illegal practices of Planned Parenthood employees, has released another video showing a Planned Parenthood employee denying that widely disseminated photographs of aborted children are real. However, the video-sharing site YouTube quickly and without explanation removed the video, and the group says YouTube issued Live Action's account a "warning strike."The video first plays undercover footage of a Planned Parenthood counselor from Tucson, AZ... LifeSiteNews.com -- Your Life, Family and Culture Outpost http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279644/posts#comment Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:38:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278513/posts The Competitive Enterprise Institute has obtained internal EPA e-mails that show the agency willfully and recklessly disregarded scientific data that undermined the bureaucracy’s global warming zealotry. This information is especially relevant as Congress rushes to pass the cap-and-trade nightmare on Friday. -----snip---- The email notes the quantity of peer-reviewed references in the study, and defends its inclusion of new research as well. It states Mr. Carlin’s view that “the critical attribute of good science is its correspondence to observable data rather than where it appears in the technical literature.” It goes on to point out that the new studies “explain... Michele Malkin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278513/posts#comment Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:55:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275820/posts Out of Deference to Tribes, State Outlaws It in Names of Public Places, Prompting a Squall STOCKTON SPRINGS, Maine -- For nearly a decade, locals here have been fighting American Indians over the name of a dead-end dirt road.The lane in question, on a woodsy bluff overlooking the ocean, was once called Squaw Point Road. Maine banned the word "squaw" from place names in 2000, in deference to Indians who consider it racist. Names such as Squaw's Bosom Mountain and Little Squaw Brook quietly receded into history. But residents here played Scrabble with the spelling instead. They renamed the road... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275820/posts#comment Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:09:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2273995/posts Recently we’ve learned that you are not allowed to hold a rally for a specific piece of legislation unless you pay the government for permission to do so. Now, if you hold a protest … like say … a tea party. You are officially committing an act of terrorism. Needs of the Many http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2273995/posts#comment Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:39:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273981/posts On Tuesday June 16, 2009 the Board of Directors of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) met in its offices in Crystal City, located in Arlington, Virginia, to discuss the pressing issues they face. Top on its agenda was to consider whether it would continue airing “religious programming” or allow any more such programming to be aired on its member stations in the future. In explaining its mission on its’ own website the Corporation notes “…that PBS is a private, nonprofit corporation, founded in 1969, whose members are America’s public TV stations. PBS provides quality TV programming and related services to... Catholic Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273981/posts#comment Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:27:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2273630/posts President Obama’s friend and his nominee for the vacant Chairmanship sailed through this afternoon’s Senate Commerce Committee confirmation hearing. Most of the attention was on issues like a national broadband policy and making the agency more consumer-friendly. He answered Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s question about a possible return of the Fairness Doctrine by saying “I don’t support reinstatement…I believe strongly in the First Amendment. I don’t think the FCC should be involved in censorship of content based on political speech or opinion.” The Senate committee had frosty relations with previous Chairman Kevin Martin, a Bush appointee, and everyone at... radio-info.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2273630/posts#comment Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:24:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2272236/posts Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez says he is just “inches away from pulling the plug on Globovision.” Globovision is a TV network that has aired programming that the Chavez regime has determined to be excessively critical of the government. “I am trying to build socialism in my country,” Chavez complained. “It is hard enough without the constant second-guessing spewing forth from an intransigent right wing. Unless they reform their opinions, they won’t be on the air much longer.” The move was assessed as “understandable under the circumstances” by MSNBC’s Chris Matthews. “Things go more smoothly for a country when everyone is... A Semi-News/Semi-Satire from AzConservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2272236/posts#comment Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:36:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271792/posts Internet Censorship: How Cute Cats Can Help Youtube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271792/posts#comment Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:28:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2271073/posts It is very telling that when American Muslims hit the streets preaching for jihad the Muslim community is silent but when a radio show, or even a simple sign says something that they do not like about Islam they are suddenly against free speech. Islam in Action http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2271073/posts#comment Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:04:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271580/posts BEIJING – By all accounts, Shi Weihan was a model Chinese citizen. A kind-hearted man with a sense of social responsibility, he donated funds to send poor kids to school, raised money for those suffering from congenital heart disease, and when the Sichuan earthquake hit, worked tirelessly for the emergency relief effort. But Shi had a fatal flaw. He printed Bibles – and gave them out for free. This week a criminal court in Beijing sentenced him to three years in jail. The Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271580/posts#comment Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:18:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269633/posts You might recall back in 2008 when Diantha Harris, a teacher from a North Carolina grade school, made a YouTube splash for having verbally berated a soldier's young daughter that said in class she was for John McCain instead of Barack Obama for president. Of course the righty blogs immediately went wild for the story, but eventually the Old Media came to the teacher's rescue and reported that the teacher never meant any harm. The story appeared on cable and local TV for several days last November. Well, last month another teacher found himself making news -- or not making... Newsbusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269633/posts#comment Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:20:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269452/posts This month the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals to take a second look at its ruling finding that Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl peep show wasn’t indecent and didn’t merit the $550,000 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) fine that was levied against CBS. The High Court move followed on the heels of its first broadcast decency ruling in 30 years when on April 28 it ruled that so-called “fleeting” violations of the broadcast decency law can be considered indecent and result in fines for broadcasters. In the case at issue, Fox fought tooth and nail against the... DC Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269452/posts#comment Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:06:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2269029/posts MSNBC's Contessa Brewer invited documentarian John Ziegler on her program Wednesday, and got into quite a battle with him over why Sarah Palin should have been at all insulted by David Letterman saying she dresses like a "slutty flight attendant" and her daughter was recently "knocked-up by Alex Rodriguez" during a Yankee game. Brewer actually didn't think there was anything wrong with Letterman making such comments. Even better, as the scrum continued, and Ziegler claimed Palin had more class than most people on MSNBC, Brewer got insulted, and called to her producer, "Cut the mike, please" (video embedded below the... Newsbusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2269029/posts#comment Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:16:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2268069/posts LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A judge has issued a gag order in the capital murder case against the man accused of killing one soldier and wounding another at a military recruiting office in Arkansas. Judge Alice Lightle issued the order Monday after prosecutors requested it to block court officials and police from discussing the case Fox http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2268069/posts#comment Tue, 9 Jun 2009 16:17:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266161/posts It's a very dangerous situation when any huge multinational corporation wages war against media companies. Especially when that huge multinational corporation is General Electric, which itself owns a media company, NBC Universal, and it's using all its power and influence and money to try to harm another media company, Nielsen, and Nielsen Business Media, and its trade publication The Hollywood Reporter. This certainly sounds like a situation which the FCC, and the FTC, and the U.S. Justice Department should be investigating. Just one problem: the controversy stems from GE/NBCU's coverage of President Obama. Here's what happened: According to my sources... Nickki Finke's Deadline Hollywood Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266161/posts#comment Sat, 6 Jun 2009 14:08:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265668/posts Some in the liberal media establishment have decried discussion of the Fairness Doctrine, claiming the Obama administration's publicly saying it wouldn't pursue it removed the threat. However, conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh theorized that President Obama may have another method to restrict content over the airwaves in mind. In an interview on Sean Hannity's June 4 Fox News Channel program, Limbaugh explained how Obama could do this - by exercising the influence the government has over the banking sector. "I want to say one other thing, even if I go over time here," Limbaugh said. "People ask me... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265668/posts#comment Fri, 5 Jun 2009 18:02:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264865/posts The White House released the following statement Wednesday in response to the shooting at Little Rock, Arkansas of a military recruiting center that resulted in the death of Private William Long. I am deeply saddened by this senseless act of violence against two brave young soldiers who were doing their part to strengthen our armed forces and keep our country safe. I would like to wish Quinton Ezeagwula a speedy recovery, and to offer my condolences and prayers to William Long’s family as they mourn the loss of their son.The statement appeared on the website of Little Rock television station... Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264865/posts#comment Thu, 4 Jun 2009 19:52:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2264014/posts The website Open Government Dialogue states the purpose on it's home page "How can we strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness by making government more transparent, participatory, and collaborative? The site is being overwhelmed with posts such as this sample seen at this link http://opengov.ideascale.com/akira/ideafactory.do?discussionID=2236 demanding BO produce his birth certificate. The admin moderator(s)(National Academy of Public Administration) have deleted comments and now are being accused by posters of deleting posts the AM's don't like. The Admin Moderators have now posted a disclaimer on the home page stating the reason why they are deleting they deem redundant and... Open Government Dialogue http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2264014/posts#comment Wed, 3 Jun 2009 19:25:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2264024/posts What do John Brown, Scott Roeder and an anonymous poster at Talking Points Memo have in common? All three believe killing those who disagree with them politically is justified. Brown lived more than a century before and helped incite the American Civil War, but Roeder and the TPM poster are walking among us today. And there is one key point on which Roeder differs from Brown and the TPM poster. Roeder shot and killed Kansas' infamous abortion doctor George Tlller this past Sunday as the latter ushered in his local church. Roeder has a long history of anti-abortion fanaticism. His... The Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2264024/posts#comment Wed, 3 Jun 2009 19:39:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262826/posts BEIJING (Reuters) – Access to the popular social networking service Twitter and email service Hotmail was blocked across mainland China late on Tuesday afternoon, two days before the twentieth anniversary of a bloody crackdown on Tiananmen Square. Indignant users filled chatrooms with protest, after access to Twitter was denied shortly after 5:00 pm (0900 GMT) on Tuesday. "The whole Twitter community in China has been exploding with it," said Beijing-based technology commentator Kaiser Kuo. "It's just part of life here. If anything surprises me, it's that it took them so long." Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262826/posts#comment Tue, 2 Jun 2009 12:52:01 GMT