Writings of J. Todd Ring: The New Blackberry 10 – Time to ditch Apple and...
The Blackberry 10 has just been unveiled, and the question returns: Blackberry, iPhone or Google-based Android smart phone? Here are some thoughts, techno-weenie talk aside. We’re talking pure...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: A Year After SOPA, A Look At The Next 5 Battles For...
by Trevor Timm | Electronic Frontier Foundation, Jan. 18, 2013: One year ago today, Internet users of all ages, races, and political stripes participated in the largest protest in Internet history,...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: CBS bans breasts, buttocks, genitals, this Pink...
By Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 9, 2013: Nearly ten years after Janet Jackson’s famous wardrobe malfunction, the CBS is on high alert concerning nudity. A “Wardrobe Advisory” email...
View ArticleThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Censoring Public Documents… or not #nlpoli
Not only does the provincial government now censor public documents called orders in council, they can’t get their own scheme right. Public engagement minister Keith Hutchings published a letter to the...
View ArticleThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The New Secret Nation #nlpoli
On the front page of Wednesday’s Telegram was another instalment in James McLeod’s blockbuster on the provincial government’s policy of censoring public documents. This one focused on the claim by a...
View ArticleThe Ranting Canadian: Doug Christie – racist anti-Semitic lawyer, white...
Doug Christie – racist anti-Semitic lawyer, white nationalist activist and Western separatist wannabe politician from British Columbia – died on March 11, 2013 at the age of 66 from liver disease....
View ArticleThe Ranting Canadian: Doug Christie: The Unauthorized Obituary (article in...
Doug Christie: The Unauthorized Obituary (article in The Tyee): Tom Hawthorn of TheTyee reiterates what I wrote in my post about the recently croaked lawyer Doug Christie. Despite his pompous...
View ArticleArt Threat: Weiwei-isms: the Coles Notes of an infamous Chinese dissident
A magnitude 8.0 earthquake shook through Wenchuan County in Sichuan province of the People’s Republic of China on May 12, 2008. Official figures listed 69,197 dead, including 5,335 children, mostly...
View ArticleThe Ranting Canadian: Young woman arrested for posting photo of graffitti online
Young woman arrested for posting photo of graffitti online: According to CBC News: A 20-year-old woman has been accused of criminal harassment and intimidation against a high-ranking Montreal police...
View ArticleArt Threat: Calgary muzzles artists critical of tar sands
The Raincoast Conservation Foundation had a permit from the City of Calgary to display their travelling art exhibition, Artists for an Oil-Free Coast, at city hall. However, once the show opened, a...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Journalists found guilty of ethical breaches really shouldn’t...
People who live in glass houses next door to used car lots shouldn’t … Below: Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente, the Globe’s disclaimer. S’cuse me! We ex-journalists are permitted to do whatever...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Tim Hortons blocks customers’ WiFi access to gay...
Last week, Canadian coffee titan Tim Hortons blocked the website of popular gay and lesbian newspaper Xtra from its public WiFi network. The post Tim Hortons blocks customers’ WiFi access to gay and...
View ArticleA BCer in Toronto: The state has no business in the computers of the nation
The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation, a future Prime Minister once said. Nearly 50 years later, it’s time for an update, as the state has no business in our bedrooms either. Inspired...
View ArticleThe Progressive Right: Joy Smith, Minister of Censorship #cdnpoli #censorship...
Joy Smith, the Conservative Minister for Censorship, has an op-ed up in the Huffington Post continuing her call to filter internet content at the internet service provider level. I won’t link to it...
View ArticleDented Blue Mercedes: Porn opt-ins, soft censorship and buttbuttinating...
On Monday, British Prime Minster David Cameron announced that internet service providers in the U.K. would be required to filter out online porn as part of several new rules to come into effect by the...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Alice Walker Disinvited By Top US University Over...
The University of Michigan has disinvited Pulitzer-prize winning African-American author Alice Walker as punishment for her progressive views on Israel. The post Alice Walker Disinvited By Top US...
View ArticleLet Freedom Rain II: Australia censorship chronicles: Student newspaper cover...
The human body is a wonderful thing. But seeing too much of it takes away the thrill. That was the point of the University of Sydney student paper’s cover, featuring 18 vaginas. But the college’s...
View ArticleParliamANT Hill: MusiciAnt songs banned on radio station
Inspired by this headline: http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/2013/09/12/neil_youngs_music_banned_from_radio_station_after_hiroshima_remark.html
View ArticleOpenMedia.ca: The Internet Insider | Say No To Internet Censorship
Hello! Listen up, world leaders! The citizens of the Internet have a few demands. We want to put an end to threats to Internet freedom. Head over to OpenMedia.org/Censorship to send a clear message to...
View ArticleOpenMedia.ca: Say No to Internet Censorship
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