Censorship

China Fast-tracks a New Satellite Campus of New York University—But the Price May be Intellectual Freedom

Challenges to Internet Freedoms Remain With Anniversary of SOPA Defeat in the Books

A year ago Sunday, Congress shelved the Stop Online Privacy Act and the Protect IP Act after millions of concerned Internet users expressed outrage over a bill they believed threatened the freedom of the Internet. The most memorable of those expressions of outrage against SOPA came a year ago Fri ... More >>

*UPDATE: Judge Allows Censor of Testimony* Censorship Ruling Expected at Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Military Tribunal Hearing

[UPDATE]: Testimony at the 9/11 military tribunal trial at Guantanamo Bay will be subject to censorship, according to court documents released yesterday. Judge Col. James Pohl ruled last week that the testimony of the defendants, including alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, could conta ... More >>

Censorship Ruling Expected at Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Military Tribunal Hearing

The military tribunal -- where alleged 9-11 master-mind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other alleged 9-11 conspirators will be tried -- is expected to rule at a pre-trail hearing today on the government's request to censor testimony. The government filed the motion back in April, requesting that ... More >>

Big Boys Gone Bananas!*

NYU Censors Its Arabian Campus

The People Trying To Ruin The Internet: Chris Dodd

At the Voice, we have been regularly following internet policy developments. We figured it would be cool -- maybe even a public service? -- to ID people who keep pushing for web-killing proposals such as CISPA, SOPA, and PIPA in this new, occasional feature: "The People Trying To Ruin The Internet." ... More >>

The Top Seven Broadsides Against The PMRC

The PMRC is one of those faint memories that music fans that grew up in the '80s try to brush away. The Parents Music Resource Center was launched in 1985 by a group of Washington power wives—the most visible face being the wife of then-senator Al Gore, Tipper—who saw rock and rap as, in ... More >>

RettighedsAlliancen's Maria Fredenslund Pressures Danish Court to Ban Grooveshark

A Danish court just decided that Grooveshark violates copyrights and is ordering an Internet service provider to block the American music-streamer, marking a huge victory for a cohort of record-industry insiders -- and a major blow to Web-freedom advocates. The group of entertainment companies, Ret ... More >>

Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership SOPA 2.0? Anonymous Says So

​First came SOPA and PIPA, but now internet-liberty advocates -- such as hacktivist group Anonymous -- warn that a new measure, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) could be the next affront to a free web. The org tweeted this morning a rally to stop the TPP, which is currently being negotiat ... More >>

Twitter Censors Tweets but Pretends Not To [UPDATE]

Twitter says that it's not censoring content even though it's clearly censoring content. But let's back up a bit. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said Monday night that the microblogging site -- which has a rep for spreading revolution, disobedience, and Brits' bad jokes -- can basically filter tweets in ... More >>

Breaking: PIPA Senate Vote Postponed

PIPA might soon perish. The Senate planned to vote on highly polemic PIPA on Tuesday, but Majority Leader Harry Reid just announced that he would postpone action on the anti-piracy bill, according to the Wall Street Journal. And if the downward spiral recent trajectory of the bill is any indicati ... More >>

Breaking: SOPA, PIPA Lose Co-Sponsors, Might Be Stopped in Congress

After thousands of popular websites went offline today and many more individuals took to the Twitterverse to protest SOPA and PIPA, several co-sponsors of the anti-piracy bills have just withdrawn their support, telling reporters that they were worried about the legislations' impact on free speech, ... More >>

'American Censorship Day' Campaign Against SOPA Happening Now

An example of the Stop Censorship bar, from NYU Local. ​Members of the House have been holding their first hearings today on SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act), a bill that would effectively require sites to police their user-generated content much more tightly and make it possible for them to ... More >>

Mike Edison's Fourth Annual Banned Book Party

Smothers Brothers Fired For Being Too Damn Funny

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 17, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 27 TV by Stephanie Harrington CBS's cancellation of the Smothers Brothers show raises an interesting question of responsibility. In the first place, one is led to assume that it was a case of firing witho ... More >>

Clip Job: Head-Shrinking the Lenny Bruce Conviction!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesNovember 26, 1964, Vol. X, No. 6The Bruce Conviction: A View from the CouchBy John TarburtonAn interesting article in the New York Times of November 5 recounts the conviction of Lenny Bruce on the previous day for giving "obscene performances" ... More >>

Palin Accepts Letterman Groveling; Protest Still On at Ed Sullivan Theater

David Letterman's second apology for inappropriate laugh-making at Sarah Palin's daughter or daughters has been accepted by Sarah Palin, who thanked America's servicemen and women for preserving our right to free speech, which must be some sort of inside joke. But if you think that's the end of it, ... More >>

When Dummos Misuse The "Free Speech" Argument

Nose-picking cretins love to yell "Free speech!" to shout you down whenever you object to the remarks of, say, a bible thumping ingrate like Carrie Prejean. (Sorry to bring that wretch up again. It's just a handy example to use here.) What these slugs don't seem to realize is that we KNOW it's Prej ... More >>

That's Not Funny! Obama's Jokes Spur Hilarious Rightblogger Comedy Clinic

As we have seen, repeatedly, rightbloggers don't need much to set them off. This week, for example, they got a lot of mileage out of Obama asking for dijon mustard on his hamburger. When rightwing talking heads made a big deal of the President's condiment choice, lefties made mock of them. Righ ... More >>

A Ban On Mormon Marriage And Their "Religious Fascism"!

This had to happen! The Universal Free Church is calling for a national petition drive to allow gay marriage and to ban Mormon marriage! (That should even things out. Otherwise, the chapels will be way overbooked.) Like so many people out there, they feel the Mormons have a right to say whatever t ... More >>

Graffiti vs. The City (Again)

Marc Ecko wins suit; will throw NYC graffiti block party tomorrow

No More Sopranos, No More Chris Rock

Tell President Bush and the right-wing Congress to get their hands off your remote

Slicing raw nerves: The man who wouldn't hold his tongue

DoD Word of the Day for August 17

DoD Word of the Day for July 19

Letters

Who Speaks for Liberty in Cuba?

'What Does Hentoff Know of the Real Cuba?'

The Abandoned Librarians

Castro's Judges Burn Books 'Lacking Usefulness'

Dow v. Thing

A Free-Speech Infringement That's Worse Than Censorship

Between the Acts

HK's Fest Forges a Post-Colonial Path

Big John Wants Your Reading List

Has the Attorney General Been Reading Franz Kafka?

The Return of Censorship

War Means Never Having to Tell the Truth

Ruffian Fake Radicals

‘It Was Hitler Who Outlawed Free Speech’

WBAI: Beijing Radio, New York

Cutting a Congressman off the Air

Letters

Winter Solstice Tributes

Free Speech for Everyone

I Yam What I Yam

Letters

Who’ll Be Blacklisted Next?

‘It’s a Plain Old Censorship Campaign’

Vive le Censeur!

French Law Stifles Web Publishers

The ACLU Strikes Back

Lawsuit Filed Against the FBI for Foul Play

Letters

Press Lords Bow to a Torturer

Time Warner and Human Rights

The Vice Man Cometh

New York's Art War Archives

Talk Radio and the Police

WABC Chills the Air

Look Who Crossed a Picket Line

Why Paul Newman Nixed PEN's Gala

How Free Can Speech Be?

The Names of Murdered Doctors Are Crossed Out

Next Frontier