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You Tube Free Speech Purge Accelerates, Infowarrior Channel Banned

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
You Tube accelerated its aggressive purge against free speech today after the video networking website suspended the Infowarrior Channel, which was the replacement for the previously censored Alex Jones Channel.
When attempting to visit the Infowarrior Channel this morning, one is met with the message, “This account is suspended.”

EU Calls for “Internet G12″ for Global Internet Governance

Old-Thinker News | May 7, 2009
By Daniel Taylor
As the EU Observer reports, Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding has called on President Obama to fully privatize the California based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which manages the web address system for the internet, and build a “multilateral forum for governments to discuss general [...]

Rupert Murdoch: “Internet Will Soon Be Over”

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch gave a strange response when asked about plans for mainstream news websites to charge for content, declaring, “The current days of the internet will soon be over.”
He was making reference to the fact that corporate media websites cannot continue to survive under their current [...]

DHS Document Lists “Alternative Media” As Potential Terrorists

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, May 4, 2009
A new Homeland Security document that received little attention during last week’s swine flu coverage shockingly lists the “alternative media” with other radical extremist groups and implies that people who disagree with the mass media’s version of events are potential domestic terrorists.
The “official use only” document is entitled “Domestic [...]

Video Bloggers Fear “You” Being Phased Out Of YouTube

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, April 17, 2009
A new You Tube video getting a lot of attention highlights concerns that the “You” is being phased out of YouTube, as individual users are sidelined by regulation and censorship in favor of corporate domination of the popular video website, an eventuality that we first warned about years ago.
The [...]

Should Obama Control the Internet?

Mother Jones
By Steve Aquino
April 2, 2009
Should President Obama have the power to shut down domestic Internet traffic during a state of emergency?
Senators John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) think so. On Wednesday they introduced a bill to establish the Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor—an arm of the executive branch that would have [...]

Real Journalism Versus “Professional Journalism”

George Washington’s Blog
Monday, March 30, 20099
If Jon Stewart walked out of his studio with his camera crew, went to where establishment figures were speaking, and threw tough questions at them, you’d get something like We Are Change.
The We Are Change reporters have asked the tough questions - a la Stewart (well, minus the comedy) - [...]