Today, Janna and I decided to watch Iron Man 2 today using Comcast/Xfinity’s On Demand Pay Per View service. We spent $6.00USD and we were able to watch a new, streaming, HD movie that was Closed Captioned — so Janna can joy the show — and boy, did we get a censored earful!
Continue reading → Iron Man 2 and On Demand Political Censorship
Are you offended by the image below of a bare-knuckled woman with naked arms drinking from a Beck’s beer bottle? vb.ly is a link shortening service that takes NSFW (Not Safe For Work) content and “safe-ifies” it by giving an SFW — Safe(r) For Work — link to click. Unfortunately, for vb.ly, the “.ly” domain belongs to Libya, and Libya is a country that adheres to Sharia: Islamic Law — and Libya doesn’t want any booze-holding, tatted chicks riding their domain anywhere near NSFW territory.
Continue reading → Sharia Law and Censoring NSFW Link Shorteners
Should we be prevented from speaking our minds on the internet? Can we say whatever we wish without fear of prosecution or persecution?
MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann used to be the voice of liberal justice. Now, because MSNBC’s parent company, GE, doesn’t like Olbermann picking fights with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly — because Bill harps on GE’s Iran’s investments — the truth is silenced by corporate interests as news dies on the vine and Democracy dies a slow death.
We fully support the douchebags! You can’t insult people online and expect to escape unpunished. A “douchebag” — is never a compliment — for it is the empty container of fluid used to flush clean a woman’s vagina. There’s no mistaking the insult of being a limp, used up, ‘gina bag.
Sarah Palin must be banned. Sarah Palin must be removed from our national dialogue and our missing national consciousness. Sarah Palin in a Book Banner.
Apple has set forth upon us a bad iPhone 3G — and if you dare to complain about it — or find ways to hope to deal with the matter on the official Apple forums… you will be silenced with the deletion of your discussion thread.
Continue reading → One Bad Apple: Going App-less on the iPhone 3G
Should cities be in the business of drawing lines in the sand between what is free speech and what is not?
Or should the public — the community of citizenry — be the overlord of deciding what is and what is not acceptable conduct in the public square?
Continue reading → The Community of Citizenry and City Censorship
Yesterday, in my WordPunk article — Built for Beautiful Failing — I wondered if Art hates or heals. Yesterday, in the New York Times, I received a reply to my query in a story concerning an Art display in a vacant Midtown store: “The Assassination of Hillary Clinton/The Assassination of Barack Obama.”
There is no greater threat to freedom than censorship that pretends to be randomized or accidental. The internet is a wonky, unstable, place filled with wires and tubes and fragile connections.
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