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Digital learning and global education concept

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News
Date
October 11, 2024

Categorized
Censorship, Events, Global Technology

Tagged
Encyclosphere, Featured, Larry Sanger}

COSM: Wikipedia Co-Founder To Speak on Today’s Knowledge Risks

_{Larry Sanger is not a fan of the baked-in bias at Wikipedia today and wants to found an encyclosphere — like the blogosphere — instead} _{News
October 11, 2024

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Censorship, Events, Global Technology}

Larry Sanger, one of the founders of Wikipedia, will be speaking at COSM, Friday, November 1, at 10:30 am. His topic?: The increasingly pressing matter of preserving our knowledge. He should know. Originally a co-founder of Wikipedia, he has become increasingly critical of its role as a go-to source. In 2021, he warned, “If only one version of the facts is allowed then that gives a huge incentive to wealthy and powerful people to seize control of things like Wikipedia in order to shore up their power,” But let’s go back a bit Sanger, who has a Phd in philosophy (2000), was approached by entrepreneur Jimmy Wales that year to come to work for him on a project that evolved Read More ›

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Richard W. Stevens
Date
October 4, 2024

Categorized
Censorship, Law

Tagged
Christopher Kohls, Featured}

California Censorship Law Loses First Round in Legal Battle

_{Court zeroes in to protect First Amendment rights to vigorous political speech and expression} _{Richard W. Stevens
October 4, 2024

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Censorship, Law}

Unless deepfake technology is outlawed wholesale, the collection of piecemeal laws and regulations aiming to fix this or that problem will grow without limit. Read More ›

Exploring AI voice deepfake technology with visual representation of voice waves in a digital context

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Richard W. Stevens
Date
September 24, 2024

Categorized
Censorship, Law

Tagged
Featured, US First Amendment}

California: The New “Deepfakes” Ban Violates the First Amendment!

_{Outrage over the AI-generated imitations of Kamala Harris’s voice distracts from the issues around the state’s power grab over media} _{Richard W. Stevens
September 24, 2024

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Censorship, Law}

AB 2839 targets political speech, the most protected form of expression under the First Amendment. There are 7 meritorious challenges Read More ›

Closeup macro of hedera helix English ivy green leaves, toned with retro vintage filters. Textured natural green background. View from top above.

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News
Date
September 12, 2024

Categorized
Censorship, Education

Tagged
Coddling of the American Mind}

Ivy League Schools Are the Worst for Censoring Free Expression

_{The top five for freedom of expression were state universities, says intellectual freedom watchdog FIRE in its fifth annual report; some schools are improving} _{News
September 12, 2024

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Censorship, Education}

Schools that are rediscovering a commitment to intellectual freedom may have an edge after a decade of declining enrolment, with worse to come. Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 12, 2024

Categorized
Censorship, Social Media

Tagged
Facebook and censorship, Featured, Jeffrey A. Tucker}

Why Was the Telegram CEO — 900 Million Users — Arrested?

_{Governments worldwide want a backdoor into social media, to target users where we spend so much time. But Durov said: nyet} _{Denyse O'Leary
September 12, 2024

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Censorship, Social Media}

Pavel Durov’s arrest chilled social media bosses but elated those who think it is time for governments, worldwide, to exert more control over what we say. Read More ›

Online vlogger filming podcast episode with man in studio, using camera and soung production equipment to record. Content creator broadcasting live conversation on social media.

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 9, 2024

Categorized
Censorship, Media, Social Media

Tagged
Content Creators}

Media war: Journalists vs. content creators—Taylor Lorenz explains

_{A revealing skirmish erupted around the DNC Convention. Your ability to get real news may depend on who wins} _{Denyse O'Leary
September 9, 2024

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Censorship, Media, Social Media}

The internet crashed the cost of independent content creation but it also crashed the cost of censorship via compliant big social media platforms. Read More ›

Concept of propaganda and fake news, TV addiction. A lot of retro TV in dark room with spiral illusion effect on screens. Politicians manipulate the population. Created with Generative AI

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 5, 2024

Categorized
Censorship, Social Media

Tagged
Convoy 2022, Prebunking as disinformation tactic}

The Hot New Word for Propaganda: Prebunking

_{Misinformation experts don’t address the fact that prebunking would work just as well for “inoculating” people against correct information as incorrect information} _{Denyse O'Leary
September 5, 2024

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Censorship, Social Media}

As governments increasingly attempt to control news, a question looms: What they will do when prebunking disapproved information doesn't prevent Wrongthink? Read More ›

A businessman stands with his turned back and looks into a cross-shaped hole in a concrete wall.

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 2, 2024

Categorized
Censorship, Social Media

Tagged
Alexandre de Moraes, Enezio E. de Almeida Filho}

X Now Banned in Brazil; Huge Fines Threaten Secret Users

_{The Supreme Court’s ruling seems to be part of an international trend toward attempted government control of the news stream} _{Denyse O'Leary
September 2, 2024

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Censorship, Social Media}

One of our readers writes to say, "I resisted the military dictatorship in Brazil in the 1960s, and I will resist the dictatorship of a judge in 2024." Read More ›

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News
Date
August 30, 2024

Categorized
Censorship, Politics, Social Media

Tagged
Featured, Kurt Mahlberg, Peter Kafka, Philip Hamburger}

Does Mark Zuckerberg Really Regret All the Censorship?

_{He says he does. But is it too late to roll back government interference in news dissemination?} _{News
August 30, 2024

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Censorship, Politics, Social Media}

His letter to the House Committee, strategically or otherwise, doesn’t say whether Meta would have made the same decisions without government pressure. Read More ›

Y chromosome on dark background. Blue color. 3d illustration.

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 27, 2024

Categorized
Censorship, Politics, Religion, Science

Tagged
Carole Hooven}

Biologist Kicked Out of National Institutes of Health Event

_{Colin Wright and Tomas Bogardus, also ejected, deny being disruptive but both think that humans are sex binary. That may have been enough} _{Denyse O'Leary
August 27, 2024

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Censorship, Politics, Religion, Science}

In a world of private truth that owes nothing to either faith or science, dissenting opinion is an invasion from an alien universe. Stay safe by not hearing. Read More ›

Dystopian metropolis. Film noir gothic style industrial architecture landscape image

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 25, 2024

Categorized
Censorship, Panpsychism, Philosophy, Science

Tagged
Featured, Panpsychism vs eliminative materialism, Pat Flynn}

If Materialism Is Failing, What Replaces It Might Not Be Better

_{If panpsychism prevails, we may need to get used to the politics of Insect Rights and of Rocks' Lives Matter. Also, panpsychists may have little of consequence to say about freedom of thought} _{Denyse O'Leary
August 25, 2024

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Censorship, Panpsychism, Philosophy, Science}

The concern Michael Egnor expresses, that materialism, while barren, may be replaced by something worse, may be prescient, depending on how panpsychism unfolds. Read More ›

group businesspeople thumbs down together. concept rejection and boycott.

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 20, 2024

Categorized
Censorship, Education, Politics

Tagged
Academic freedom}

Scholars Association Changes Policy, Now Backs Academic Boycotts

_{If AAUP members have run out of challenging new ideas themselves, they can at least suppress them when they are introduced by others} _{Denyse O'Leary
August 20, 2024

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Censorship, Education, Politics}

Idea boycotts have been known to suppress new ideas for centuries. It used to be thought of as a negative idea, a sort of dark ages… Read More ›

K9 Police Squad Performing Explosive Material Security Screening At Airports

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Peter Biles
Date
August 15, 2024

Categorized
Censorship

Tagged
America, censorship, Free speech, Freedom, UK}

Tulsi Gabbard Put on Terror Watch List. Is the Dystopia Already Here?

_{Tyranny is starting to rear its head in the western world} _{Peter Biles
August 15, 2024

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Censorship}

Last week, the United Kingdom warned its citizens about what they post online, noting they could be criminally prosecuted for sharing content that can “incite” violence. Free speech advocates were quick to condemn the announcement as censorial and undemocratic. But is America immune from the thought police? Former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii was recently put on the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) terror watchlist. According to whistleblower reports, she and her husband were followed by federal agents and a team of dogs last month and checked multiple times at airports as they traveled across the United States and overseas. Local Hawaiian lawmakers sent a statement to the TSA condemning the “harassment”: The people of Hawaii love Tulsi and your actions Read More ›

Concept idea freedom of speech freedom of expression democracy feminism and censored, surreal painting, portrait illustration, political art, women's rights, conceptual artwork

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Peter Biles
Date
August 9, 2024

Categorized
Censorship

Tagged
Elon Musk, Free speech, Google, totalitarianism, Twitter, UK}

The U.K. Government Reposts Censorious Tweet

_{The rising authoritarianism in western societies is becoming more evident} _{Peter Biles
August 9, 2024

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Censorship}

In light of the violent protests and now counter-protests raging across the England and elsewhere in the United Kingdom (UK), the UK government reposted an announcement on X that those posting online content promoting “hatred” or “violence” could be criminally prosecuted. Here’s the post: Not only can citizens face prosecution by posting inciteful content (although the video makes no mention about what that really is), but they can also get nabbed for simply reposting it from someone else. The pushback on X was swift, with critics calling the post a blatant instance of government overreach and comparing the measure to something we would expect in authoritarian countries like China and North Korea. The debate over free speech in western countries Read More ›

minimalist circuit board with tiny monopoly townhouses the style is flat and minimalistic with simple shapes and limited colors

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Richard W. Stevens
Date
August 9, 2024

Categorized
Business and Finance, Censorship, Law, Psychology, Social Media}

Google Decision Challenges Trillion-Dollar Internet Gatekeeper

_{How one company cornered the market for the human mind} _{Richard W. Stevens
August 9, 2024

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Business and Finance, Censorship, Law, Psychology, Social Media}

The judge ruled that Google operates unlawfully: It effectively excludes competitors while its prices and services are unresponsive to consumer market demands. Read More ›

TV News studio - recording and broadcasting media in a modern set design with blue background for journalists. Generative AI

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 7, 2024

Categorized
Censorship, Media, Social Media

Tagged
Trust in media}

As Trust in Media Declines, Media Seek Allies in Government

_{The internet crashes the cost of almost every factor except time so more and more independent sources are jumping in} _{Denyse O'Leary
August 7, 2024

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Censorship, Media, Social Media}

Legacy media want something DONE about the new bottom-up news media that are an existential threat to traditional top-down media. Read More ›

Anonymous crowd of people walking street wearing masks during covid 19 coronavirus pandemic

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 19, 2024

Categorized
Censorship, Medicine and Health, Politics, Science, Technocracy

Tagged
Featured, Jay Bhattacharya}

Let Him Who Would “Represent” Science Beware…

_{James B. Meigs looks at Anthony Fauci’s new book, On Call, asking what happened? What turned the highly esteemed doctor into a scheming authoritarian?} _{Denyse O'Leary
July 19, 2024

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Censorship, Medicine and Health, Politics, Science, Technocracy}

Fauci’s early career was brilliant; he gained the trust of angry opponents during the AIDS years. But the art of listening seemed to desert him later. Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 9, 2024

Categorized
Censorship, Politics, Science, Social Media

Tagged
Featured, Jay Bhattacharya, Scott Atlas, Wesley J. Smith}

View: Universities Should Not Speak Up Against Dissenting Profs!

_{Jay Bhattacharya and Wesley J. Smith respond to an article in a medical journal arguing that universities SHOULD censure dissenters on the faculty} _{Denyse O'Leary
July 9, 2024

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Censorship, Politics, Science, Social Media}

How much good science would have seen the light in the last 600 years if “Institutional Voices” had been heard from even more often than they were? Read More ›

Red blue atom model over blurred blue and red

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News
Date
June 30, 2024

Categorized
Censorship, Philosophy, Science, Theism

Tagged
Bill Dembski, Richard Dawkins, Richard Horton, The Lancet, Wesley J. Smith}

Bill Dembski: Einstein’s Advice to Bright Young University Grads

_{His advice, bellowed in parting, may seem obvious but it is challenging in a world that often protects sacred cows over evidence} _{News
June 30, 2024

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Censorship, Philosophy, Science, Theism}

Sacred cows inhibit thinking because they have no straightforward relationship with the discipline in which they find pasture. Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
June 18, 2024

Categorized
Censorship, Law, Media

Tagged
Featured, Minority Report (2002)}

New Pre-Crime Laws: Real-Life “Minority Report” Coming to Canada?

_{Americans should NOT assume that “It can’t happen here.” The First Amendment is a constitutional tool, not a magic talisman. It can be undermined} _{Denyse O'Leary
June 18, 2024

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Censorship, Law, Media}

Canadian media that accept Trudeau’s handouts must please the regime more than inform the public. Indies are under heavy fire. Read More ›