Internet Censorship Contest

[bofors]

[T]his contest requires you create a video documenting the censorship of Prison Planet, Infowars, TruthNews, the Jones Report and other non-corporatized, alternative media websites. The video must be under 10 minutes and be posted on YouTube and a secondary video venue on the internet. Contest deadline is the 19th of August. Contest videos will also be cross-posted on Prison Planet and Infowars.

 

First Prize: $5,000

 

Second Prize: $1,000

 

Third Prize: $500

 

http://www.infowars.com/?p=3750

 

This contest is being sponsored by Alex Jones: http://infowars.com

 

As we reported yesterday, major transportation hubs like St. Pancras International, as well as libraries, big businesses, hospitals and other public outlets that offer wi-fi Internet, are blacklisting alternative news websites and making them completely inaccessible to their users.

 

On weekly basis we receive e mails from across the US and the UK from people who have attempted to visit our websites yet found them to be blocked by filtration software that lists them as “hate” or “violence”.

 

http://www.infowars.com/?p=3750

[Paranoid Marvin]

As we reported yesterday, major transportation hubs like St. Pancras International, as well as libraries, big businesses, hospitals and other public outlets that offer wi-fi Internet, are blacklisting alternative news websites and making them completely inaccessible to their users.

 

On weekly basis we receive e mails from across the US and the UK from people who have attempted to visit our websites yet found them to be blocked by filtration software that lists them as "hate" or "violence".

 

http://www.infowars.com/?p=3750

 

Take this from someone who actually lives in the UK - the web filtering you get on public computers and school computers is just plain awful. There's no big agenda going on here - the software that does the filtering is actually set up by the companies that lease the computers to the public services, so blame big businesses and poor programs.

But really, the software is absolutely pathetic - I can't even get onto the greenpeace site from school, or this forum.

 

Also, why is this not in 'Laughs' or 'Random Stuff'?