Freedom of Assembly is too
LINK – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-guB121R6Y
More on the case – https://notogenocide.proboards.com/post/582

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LINK – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-guB121R6Y
More on the case – https://notogenocide.proboards.com/post/582

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The Julian Assange support crowd outside the embassy in London has morphed into a free speech (24 hours) live worldwide webcast.
Watch democracy in action at
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/occupynewsnetwork
[if the screen goes blank just hit “Refresh” button (F5) ]
From The Watchers blog –
Google transparency – new data shows increase in link removal requests
What we’ve seen over the past couple years has been troubling, and today is no different. When we started releasing this data in 2010, we also added annotations with some of the more interesting stories behind the numbers. We noticed that government agencies from different countries would sometimes ask us to remove political content that our users had posted on our services. We hoped this was an aberration. But now we know it’s not, Dorothy Chou, senior policy analyst for Google, wrote on her blog on June 18, 2012.
She continues, about two years ago, we launched our interactive Transparency Report. We started by disclosing data about government requests. Since then, we’ve been steadily adding new features, like graphs showing traffic patterns and disruptions to Google services from different countries. And just a couple weeks ago, we launched a new section showing the requests we get from copyright holders to remove search results.
This is the fifth data set that we’ve released. And just like every other time before, we’ve been asked to take down political speech.
It’s alarming not only because free expression is at risk, but because some of these requests come from countries you might not suspect—Western democracies not typically associated with censorship. . . . (more + list of countries)
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