I’ve been waiting for someone to do something like this for awhile: Open Media International has created the ‘Declaration of Internet Freedom‘ which aims to prevent censorship and government control of information, reward innovation and protect personal privacy. The internet may be the greatest tool in the history of humanity, it also has the potential…
Japanese University Offers Free Access to Dozens of VPNs
From the Great Firewall of China to the UK ban on the Pirate Bay, nearly every country now faces some form of internet censorship. Apparently no one need worry about it anymore: The Graduate School of University of Tsukuba, Japan, has just launched a free VPN (Virtual Private Network) service which will allow users to…
Japanese University Offers Free Access to Dozens of VPNs
From the Great Firewall of China to the UK ban on the Pirate Bay, nearly every country now faces some form of internet censorship. Apparently no one need worry about it anymore: The Graduate School of University of Tsukuba, Japan, has just launched a free VPN (Virtual Private Network) service which will allow users to…
Canadian Blogger Arrested in Tehran
Via CBC comes word that Canadian-Iranian blogger Hossein Derakhshan has been arrested in Tehran. Derakhshan, author of Editor Myself, which has been included in the news and politics section of publicbroadcasting.ca for some time has drawn fire from both Tehran and Washington over the years. International human rights groups and media reports said Derakhshan, a…
Breaking Links: Oct. 23, 2008
36 Hours until I move so not much time for blogging, but a few headlines for you all. First I should mention that I run alot of groups on facebook. Check them out and see if there are any of interest that you don’t know about at http://www.publicbroadcasting.ca/justin/groups.html Now, check these out. The declining looney…
Is Stephen Harper Really Canadian?
Back in February the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage made some recommendations for the future of the CBC. Among them Increased funding Fewer commercials Increased Canadian content More regional programming More online programming Increased partnerships with other Canadian cultural instutions Today according to Inside the CBC the report was completely rejected by the Harper Government.…
Reminder Young People Fucking and Pillow Talk on Saturday
Saturday, at 5 pm, at the Scotiabank Theater (259 Richmond St. West) in Toronto the First Weekend Club will present, following a screening of Young People Fucking “Pillow Talk”: “The Pillow Talk event will be a public discussion and panel about the movie, the impending Bill C-10 and the social implications it imposes should it…
Ex Tory Staffer Victoria Van Eyk joins Publicbroadcasting.ca
Today, I take great pride in announcing that former Tory staffer Victoria Van Eyk will shortly be joining publicbroadcasting.ca as a film critic and Ottawa Commentator. A few weeks ago Victoria Van Eyk attended a special screening of Martin Gero’s film Young People Fucking and lost her job for it. Conservative MP Gary Goodyear from…
Bill C-10: MPs Watch Young People Fucking and So Can You
Young People Fucking will officially be released on June 13 but there was a special screening recently so that MPs and Senators who are debating Bill C-10 could see the film and judge it for themselves. While, according to jam! : “Aside from partial nudity and sexually suggestive dialogue, the film wasn’t as raunchy as…
Automated Censorship via Robot
Via Bookninja: While trying to access Bookninja via free wireless in Halifax, it was discovered that access to the site was blocked by Hotspot due to a “banned phrase”. The unidentified phrase was apparently found by a robot searching for keywords. I understand that in some cases web content must be filitered. Blocking pornography where…