Sunday, October 27, 2013

Web Censorship in the USA

The media reform group Free Press highlights media and telecom corporations caught censoring web or cellphone traffic.

Inner City Press, a monitor of Wall Street and the United Nations, temporarily is delisted from Google News. The de-listing happened soon after Matt Lee of Inner City Press challenged Google over its commitment to free expression.

In 2007, consumer rights groups mobilized to tell the Federal Communications Commission: "No More Media Consolidation." CommonCause was blocked from placing an ad on My Space against conglomerated media. Rupert Murdoch had bought My Space in 2005 (and later sold it at a huge loss). The banned ad featured a photo of Murdoch and the caption: "This is the face of Big Media." Is it My Space or Murdoch's space?

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