http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/censorship/ en-us Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:06:50 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050243/posts Protesters denounce Fox News as racist Wed Jul 23, 2008 6:52pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Protesters gathered on Wednesday outside Fox News Channel to denounce what they claim is its racist campaign coverage, including a pundit who called Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama a terrorist. The crowd of some 150 people wielded a petition with more than 600,000 signatures objecting to news coverage by Fox, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, organizers said. Some demonstrators held signs that crossed out the network's "Fair and Balanced" slogan and replaced it with the words "Fairly Racist!" Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050243/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:06:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2049506/posts If U.S. network censors banned the Secret Obsession scent ad campaign, will they ban the Calvin Klein Underwear ad, where Eva is also semi-nude? The Fashion Time Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2049506/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:46:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2049366/posts In March 2007, Channel 4, United Kingdom, aired The Great Global Warming Swindle. The documentary, which boldly alleges that global warming is not caused by human activity and that there is no climate crisis, quickly became an international success; selling in 21 countries and distributed openly via the Internet. A backlash from global warming alarmists was to be expected. Someone was breaking their strangle-hold on telling the public what to believe. Someone was actually engaging them in public debate, without their permission or editorial control, and doing it well. In contrast to Al Gore's “An Inconvenient Truth” (sic), The... MensNewsDaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2049366/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:40:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049319/posts The Company Muslims KeepCanada's Islamic community has nothing to gain by allying itself with human rights censorsLast week, at Toronto's Noor Centre --a cultural organization for liberal Muslims --I participated in a panel discussion on the question of whether the Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC) is justified in bringing human rights complaints against Maclean's magazine for publishing Mark Steyn's (now famous) cover article, The Future Belongs to Islam. What follows is adapted from my opening remarks. No, I don't think the CIC's complaints have any merit. In fact, I find it quite creepy that government officials even take the case seriously.... National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049319/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:13:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049258/posts Gore's surprise visit highlights Netroots conference Former vice president speaks at Austin convention for liberal bloggers. By Patrick Beach AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Sunday, July 20, 2008 Name-dropping Al Gore and his call for a switch to clean, renewable energy within 10 years was enough to pull whoops of approval from the 2,000 or 3,000 marauding liberals gathered for Netroots Nation at the Austin Convention Center on Saturday morning. So when the former vice president and Nobel Prize co-winner made a surprise — and cleverly scripted — appearance during U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's talk, it looked like the conference might turn... Austin American-Statesman http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049258/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:55:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049237/posts The Austin American-Statesman caved to pressure from the Daily Kos-Netroots Nation and pulled an article from the newspaper's website that poked fun at the liberal convention being held in Austin last weekend.The article, entitled Gore's Surprise Visit Highlights Netroots Conference was published on the front page of Sunday's paper.It was written by feature writer, Patrick Beach--meaning the article was not a straight news piece (think Dana Milbank.)Greg Mitchell, a writer for Editor & Publisher who blogs at the Daily Kos attended the conference as a panel speaker.He brought attention to the article by posting about it the Daily Kos. Mitchell... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049237/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:49:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049374/posts After eight years in the wilderness, the left expects a clean sweep in the 2008 election -- the presidency (and with it the federal bureaucracy) and larger majorities in both houses of Congress. Looking ahead, liberals are determined to derail potential opposition to their plans to accelerate the deconstruction of America. Consequently, they have targeted talk radio. Bringing back the Fairness Doctrine is just one facet of their scheme to eviscerate the only part of the media controlled by conservatives. Crucial to an understanding of the jihad against talk radio is this: The left will do anything to gag its... email:GrassTopsUSA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049374/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:51:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2049232/posts THE OLD GRAY B*TCH: CENSORSHIP AT THE NEW YORK TIMES Published July 22nd, 2008 The New York Times, which last week printed an op-ed piece by Senator Obama on the Iraq War, has rejected an article on the same subject by Senator John McCain. Says editorial page editor, David Shipley, “It would be terrific to have an article from Sen. McCain that mirrors Sen. Obama’s piece.” (http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/07/mccain-oped-not.html) As our Black brethren might say, “Say what???” Since the “paper of record,” “the old, gray lady,” has now become a senile, old, corrupt, censorial b*tch determined to dictate rather than report and... VARIOUS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2049232/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:08:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048942/posts Media regulator Ofcom is due to decide whether a Channel 4 documentary broke rules on accuracy and fairness. The Great Global Warming Swindle attracted various complaints, including claims it misled contributors. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the former UK government chief scientific adviser Sir David King were among the complainants. Channel 4 said it aired the documentary to demonstrate that the debate on climate change was not over. Its key contention was that the increase in atmospheric temperatures observed since the 1970s was not primarily caused by emissions of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels. First aired... BBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048942/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:53:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048851/posts Bureaucrats at the American Physical Society (APS) have issued a curious warning to their members about an article in one of their own publications. Don't read this, they say - we don't agree with it. But what is it about the piece that is so terrible, that like Medusa, it could make men go blind? It's an article that examines the calculation central to climate models. As the editor of the APS's newsletter American Physics Jeffrey Marque explains, the global warming debate must be re-opened. "There is a considerable presence within the scientific community of people who do not... The Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048851/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:54:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048770/posts Climate documentary 'broke rules' By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News website The Great Global Warming Swindle, a controversial Channel 4 film, broke Ofcom rules, the media regulator says. In a long-awaited judgement, Ofcom says Channel 4 did not fulfil obligations to be impartial and to reflect a range of views on controversial issues. The film also treated interviewees unfairly, but did not mislead audiences "so as to cause harm or offence". Plaintiffs say the Ofcom judgement is "inconsistent" and "lets Channel 4 off the hook on a technicality." BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048770/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:22:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048304/posts The makers of a Channel 4 documentary which claimed that global warming is a swindle misrepresented the views of some of the world's leading climate scientists, the media watchdog is expected to rule next week. In a judgment at the end of a 15-month enquiry, Ofcom is expected to censure the channel over The Great Global Warming Swindle, broadcast in March last year. The film sparked outcry from environmentalists and led to a complaint from a group of senior scientists about apparent errors, distortions and misrepresentations. It is thought that complaints about privacy and fairness from the Government's former chief... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048304/posts#comment Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:22:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047988/posts -- snip -- Complaints about privacy and fairness from the government's former chief scientist, Sir David King, and the Nobel peace prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will be upheld on almost all counts, the Guardian has learned. But it is understood that Channel 4 will still claim victory because the ultimate verdict on a separate complaint about accuracy, which contained 131 specific points and ran to 270 pages, will find that it did not breach the regulator's broadcasting code and did not materially mislead viewers... The Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047988/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:59:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045048/posts Our Constitution is one of our greatest assets in the fight against terrorism. A free-flowing marketplace of ideas, protected by the First Amendment, enables the ideals of democracy to defeat the totalitarian vision of al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations. That free marketplace faces a threat. Individuals with alleged connections to terrorist activity are filing libel suits and winning judgments in foreign courts against American researchers who publish on these matters. These suits intimidate and even silence writers and publishers. Under American law, a libel plaintiff must prove that defamatory material is false. In England, the burden is reversed. Disputed... The Wall Street Journal: Opinion http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045048/posts#comment Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:28:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044813/posts Our liberty is placed at risk when academic freedom is abused in academia. In order to address the misuse of academic freedom, one must first understand the exact meaning of the words academic freedom in order to understand how it is abused. Herein lies the heart of the problem, there is no consensus definition of the words academic freedom. The Random House Dictionary defines academic freedom as: Freedom of a teacher to discuss or investigate any controversial social, economic, or political problems without interference or penalty from officials, organized groups, etc. or, Freedom of a student to explore any field... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044813/posts#comment Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:23:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043435/posts A Michigan man is suing Zondervan Publishing and Thomas Nelson Publishing, claiming biblical references to homosexuality as a sin violate his constitutional rights and have caused him emotional pain and mental instability. Bradley LaShawn Fowler, 39, is seeking $60 million from Zondervan and $10 million from Thomas Nelson, The Grand Rapids (Mich.) Press reported. He is representing himself in both claims. Fowler claims the Bible has made him an outcast and contributed to physical discomfort and periods of "demoralization, chaos and bewilderment." "As frivolous as this case may sound, it's an indicator of where the homosexual agenda is headed," said... CitizenLink http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043435/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:54:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043051/posts Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who would like very much to reimpose the old, so-called, “Fairness Doctrine” that once censored conservative opinion on television and radio broadcasting, is scheming to impose rules barring any member of Congress from posting opinions on any internet site without first obtaining prior approval from the Democratic leadership of Congress. No blogs, twitter, online forums - nothing. This was first reported to me by Congressman John Culberson (R-Tx) and I asked for approval to cite him and for any media links to this story. He provided the following link of regulations proposed by the Chair... Chicago Boys http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043051/posts#comment Wed, 9 Jul 2008 19:39:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042987/posts "Efforts in both chambers of Congress have Republicans wondering why Democrats seem to fear free speech. Rep. Michael Capuano (D-MA) has proposed limitations on how Representatives can post information to the Internet in a time when we should be demanding more transparency, not less. According to a source in the Senate, Dianne Feinstein has begun her own campaign to force Senators to seek permission before communicating over the Internet." "In the Senate, the problem gets even worse. Feinstein (D-CA) would have the Rules Committee act as a censor board, forcing members to get approval for the act of communicating on... HotAir http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042987/posts#comment Wed, 9 Jul 2008 17:30:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042663/posts A special meeting about Dallas County traffic tickets turned tense and bizarre this afternoon. County commissioners were discussing problems with the central collections office that is used to process traffic ticket payments and handle other paperwork normally done by the JP Courts. Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said it seemed that central collections "has become a black hole" because paperwork reportedly has become lost in the office. Commissioner John Wiley Price, who is black, interrupted him with a loud "Excuse me!" He then corrected his colleague, saying the office has become a "white hole." That prompted Judge Thomas Jones,... © The Dallas Morning News, Inc. All Rights Reserved. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042663/posts#comment Wed, 9 Jul 2008 00:02:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042482/posts July 08, 2008, 6:00 a.m. WikipropagandaSpinning green. By Lawrence Solomon Ever wonder how Al Gore, the United Nations, and company continue to get away with their claim of a “scientific consensus” confirming their doomsday view of global warming? Look no farther than Wikipedia for a stunning example of how the global-warming propaganda machine works. As you (or your kids) probably know, Wikipedia is now the most widely used and influential reference source on the Internet and therefore in the world, with more than 50 million unique visitors a month. In theory Wikipedia is a “people’s encyclopedia” written and edited... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042482/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jul 2008 17:45:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042332/posts One of the best ways to influence students, colleagues, and the citizenry at large is to hire, promote, and tenure only those people who agree with you. It's August 1968. Anti-Vietnam War demonstrators have just wrecked the Democratic national convention in Chicago and ruined Hubert Humphrey's chances to become president. So what did these Marxists and their cohorts elsewhere do next? They stayed in college. They sought out the easiest professors and the easiest courses. And they stayed in the top half of their class. This effectively deferred them from the military draft, a draft that discriminated against young men... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042332/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jul 2008 12:53:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041758/posts While all the military services are concerned about operational security and compromising the mission, each branch has its own rules for servicemembers who want to sound off in the blogosphere. Army An April 2007 operational security policy mandated that soldier blogs get "eyes on" by a blogger’s immediate supervisor and OPSEC officer before publication. The policy also covered (but was not limited to) "letters, resumes, articles for publication, electronic mail, Web site postings, discussion in Internet information forums, discussion in Internet message boards or other forms of dissemination or documentation." The free-speech firestorm was fast and furious, and the Army... Stars & Stripes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041758/posts#comment Mon, 7 Jul 2008 12:14:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041667/posts THE Rudd Government will ask the Australia Council to develop a set of protocols to cover the representation of children in art, after a taxpayer-funded magazine put a picture of a nude six-year-old girl on its cover to protest at the Bill Henson dispute. The review, which would consult members of the arts sector and the general community, was confirmed by a government spokesman yesterday, as politicians led by Kevin Rudd heaped condemnation on this month's Art Monthly Australia magazine. The work is a detail of Olympia as Lewis Carroll's Beatrice Hatch before White Cliffs, by the girl's mother, Melbourne... The Australian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041667/posts#comment Mon, 7 Jul 2008 03:14:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041213/posts Iran's parliament is set to debate a draft bill which could see the death penalty used for those deemed to promote corruption, prostitution and apostasy on the internet, reports said on Wednesday. MPs on Wednesday voted to discuss as a priority the draft bill which seeks to "toughen punishment for harming mental security in society," the ISNA news agency said. The text lists a wide range of crimes such rape and armed robbery for which the death penalty is already applicable. The crime of apostasy (the act of leaving a religion, in this case Islam) is also already punishable by... AFP via Iafrica http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041213/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jul 2008 20:29:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2040269/posts IFI Media Watch It's a cold dark day. A group of stern-looking men and women sit in a conference room and decide what their countrymen should hear and what they shouldn't. "This isn't reflective of the people's wishes," says one member of the panel. "Yes, we'll have to make room for what our leader thinks," says another without batting an eye. Now you might be thinking I'm describing an event in Iran or the former Soviet Union. Perhaps it's an historical description of a meeting of the Communist Bloc in Mao Tse Tung's China. Sadly, it is none of the... Illinois Family Institute http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2040269/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 15:01:55 GMT