Tag: censorship
ABC Sues The FCC For Massive First Amendment Violations
After years of feckless capitulation, ABC is clearly developing something vaguely resembling a backbone. The company has filed a new lawsuit against Brendan Carr and the FCC (pdf), (correctly) claiming that the agency has been engaged in a coordinated campaign of harassment that violates the First Amendment and tramples the company's free speech rights. The...
Trump’s War On Journalists Also Includes Targeting A Freelance NYT Contributor
Donald Trump took possession of a $400 million "gift" plane from the Qatari government earlier this year. Trump claimed it was a coup for taxpayers and a boon for America, even as he made it clear this was all about him. According to Trump, no plane was more luxurious than this graft-y replacement for the...
Trump Admin’s Campaign Against ‘Radical Left Terrorism’ Is Built On A National Security Memo With No Congressional Approval
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. A little-noticed presidential national security directive is now the legal engine behind a wave of terrorism prosecutions against left-wing protesters. That domestic campaign now has an international dimension, one that American officials had been planning for months, culminating on...
Former FCC Officials Line Up To Blast Brendan Carr’s Lawless Censorship Of ABC
A bipartisan roster of former top-level FCC officials have submitted a filing to the Trump FCC blasting the agency's ongoing violations of the First Amendment and urging it to terminate its phony "investigations" into ABC -- including the unprecedented early ownership review of the company's broadcast licenses. In the filing, former FCC officials allied under...
N things you can do today to fight bad internet bills across the world
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The Galileo Gambit: Scientific Liberty, Consensus, and the Cost of Persuasion
Over-Filtering The Internet
Despite many, many failed attempts to do so, people keep trying to filter the internet. Let’s look at the lens of the current moment through past attempts—including one led by, of all people, a librarian.
Threat models
Unstoppability depends on mutual aid
Small world
The Netflixification of digital money
Not-So-Clear Channel
In a time of national crisis, an emergent broadcast radio giant, Clear Channel, banned a bunch of songs from the airwaves. Or did it?
No Nunchucks
How the quirks of a conservative British censor led one of the most popular cartoons in history to appear in censored form during the height of its success.
An Institute You Can’t Disparage
How an activist named Terry Rakolta tried—and failed—to convince Middle America to stop watching “Married … With Children.” She might have saved Fox.