Grass-mud horse banned?
The YouTube phenomenon Song of the Grass-Mud Horse (Cao Ni Ma), has been doing the rounds since January. It’s a jaunty little children’s tune, with some rather, well, crude punning lyrics, taking a...
View ArticleGoogle execs convicted over video
This is genuinely alarming. An Italian court has convicted Google executives David Carl Drummond, George De Los Reyes and Peter Fleischer (now retired), for violation of privacy, after a video of an...
View ArticleMuhammad and the fundamentalists
The scale of the internet censorship imposed in Pakistan is startling. The supposed sacrilege of depicting Muhammad is once more the trigger. The government there has blocked first Facebook and now...
View ArticleYouTube does not cause extremism
Recent reports on the stabbing of Labour MP Stephen Timms seem to suggest that his attacker Roshanara Choudhry was “radicalised” by the Internet, and specifically videos of Yemen-based Anwar al-Awlaki...
View ArticleAndy Gray, Sky Sports and citizen surveillance
Farewell Andy Gray, the former Scotland international with a penchant for dull jokes about women and the offside rule. Gray has been sacked by Sky Sports after videos of him emerged on the Internet...
View Article“My Tram Experience” and the rise of the citizen Stasi
The web has been awash with outrage this week after video emerged of a woman engaged in a racist rant on a tram in Croydon. The woman has now been arrested for a “racially aggravated” Public Order...
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Mere conduit no more: Italian court threatens international web freedom
UPDATE: An appeals court in Milan acquitted today three Google executives of violating the privacy of an Italian boy with autism, in the so-called “Vividown” case. “We’re very happy that the verdict...
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Index Index – International free speech round up 13/02/13
YouTube filed lawsuit against the Russian government on 11 February, to contest its latest cybercrime law to censor websites deemed harmful to children. The case was filed after Russian regulators...
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