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Bizjama's small business news round-up for Wednesday, January 18, 2012.

major record label EMI (in the process of being acquired by Universal Music to make it the largest record label by far) is suing the Irish government because it feels the Irish government is taking too long to pass a SOPA-like law that would require ISPs to censor the internet and block access to sites it doesn't like.

wtf?

The man known as the father of the so-called “Great Firewall of China” was pelted with eggs and shoes by a students protesting against China’s draconian online censorship regime, online reports in China claimed.

The idea quickly grew beyond “Project Status”, and has become a hub of all sorts of internal Panic information. What you’re actually looking at is an internal-only webpage that updates frequently using AJAX which shows: * E-Mail Queue — number of messages / number of days. * Project Status — sorry for the heavy censorship — you know how it is! * Important Countdowns * Revenue — comparing yesterday to the day before, not so insightful (yet). * Live Tri-Met Bus Arrivals — when it’s time to go home! * The Panic Calendar * Employee Twitter Messages * Any @Panic Twitter Messages — i.e., be nice! They go on our screen!

A great idea. A simple idea and great so you can watch what they say... An online debate platform on politician promises on the specific issue of job losses. An objective : create transparency. An effective approach : simple infterface fits on one page, a 3 step approach. Presented by Stephanie Jost (news editor at ARD) and Sven Hoffmann ( In the end, you can confront 2 dutch politicians through screening both their point of view on a split screen using voice recognition to make meta-tagging out of hundreds of videos selected from 50 news TV and radio pgm. According to a German user who seemed to like the project : "With the internet (...) every one as immediate and direct control on information without censorship". A little dead-end project.

Librelist.com is a free as in freedom mailing list site for open source projects. It is a place for FOSS communities to discuss all the things they want without ads, censorship, signup requirements, bundled apps, or requirements that you use any particular email client or service.

search engine that creates visualizations of results for the same search terms as seen by citizens in different countries. The idea is to make it easier to visualize the effects of censorship policies on search engines and knowledge discovery online.

The document is the first evidence that the networking giant has marketed its routers to China specifically as a tool of repression. It reinforces the double-edged role that Americans' technological ingenuity plays in the rest of the world.

One of the most important web sites in recent months has been Wikileaks.org. Wikileaks has upset the Chinese government enough that they are attempting to censor it, as is the Thai military junta. Wikileaks is now under attack from a censorship effort by a California court.

Break through the Internet Censorship

Shanghaiist n'a pas peur pour ses fesses apparemment ^^;

Million dollar airline helps you unblock popular legal sites from school or work. It is a 100% free online proxy service. Tell your family and friends and submit this resource to social bookmarking sites! This service is intended for legal activity only, to defend your privacy and circumvent censorship. Anything that is done by you, the user, is YOUR responsibility. We cannot be held responsible for any act done by a user to a page/site/network under cover of our online proxy service.

What's got me pissed today is that according to Rebekka, Flickr has removed her image from their site

A critically acclaimed website with very good detailed reviews about what exactly is in a movie so movie goers can be informed when they decide the films they see. It's not about censorship, but letting people know what's in a movie.

UnblockU is a web-based free anonymous proxy, which allows anyone to surf the internet securely and with total privacy. UnblockU hides your IP address, stopping hackers or website owners from identifying or tracking you. Our free anonymous proxy also prevents monitoring of your network traffic. Proxies are commonly used for several reasons: security, load balancing, data caching in order to reduce bandwidth demands, and censorship or filtering. Filtering proxies insulate you from objectionable elements of Webpages such as cookies, ad banners, dynamic content like Javascript, Java Applets and ActiveX controls. Some anonymous proxies encrypt your Web communications, protecting you from routine monitoring or even dedicated surveillance. Be careful, though, not all proxies are anonymous!

Iran Govrenment Filtering Center

A version of YouTube in Iran. Could make for some interesting cultural insight, even if prone to censorship.

Freenet is free software which lets you publish and obtain information on the Internet without fear of censorship. To achieve this freedom, the network is entirely decentralized and publishers and consumers of information are anonymous. Without anonymity there can never be true freedom of speech, and without decentralization the network will be vulnerable to attack.

Approval Process for Media on LiveLeak.com Once you have uploaded your media to LiveLeak it will be entered into a queue for it to be approved for public viewing by a member of staff. We aim to approve media within 1 hour of upload. What does approval mean? Basically an approved video or image will be shown on the public areas of LiveLeak.com. If media is not approved this DOES NOT mean it has been deleted. Should your media not be approved you will still see it in your media list and it can still be visible within either your group or a group you have submitted it to. You can share the link to the media anywhere on the net and it will be visible. The only place it will not be shown is the ‘browse media' section of the site. Points are not awarded for media which is not approved. Our criteria for approval is really quite simple and this is intended, not as censorship as your media is still available, but rather to root out obvious reposts, flooding for points, and to keep quality high on the public areas. How does the point system work? The point system is designed to motivate our users to deliver positive contributions to LiveLeak. Below you can find the point system details: Info Points Account creation 10 Adding comment 0.04 Adding media item 1.5 Media item becoming featured 75 Below are actions that will lead to no point rewards/point subtraction. If a comment or media item falls under these classifications, all (initial) points related to the media item/comment will be removed. Media item is repost 0 Media item is propaganda 0 Media item is bad (*) -1 Media item is spam -2 Comment is propaganda 0 Comment is bad (*) -0.1 Comment is spam -2

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