Censorship Update 10/25/07

Free Speech on Campus Takes Another Hit

Emory:

• The Emory Wheel: Outside Group Stifles Horowitz Speech
• Leftist-Islamist Bullies Shut Down Horowitz Speech at Emory University
• Leftists Force Horowitz From Stage
• Leftist Fascists Deny Emory Audience Freedom of Assembly
• Well, We Brought the Fascists Out
• Alumni Assoc. Contact to Protest Emory’s Capitulation
• Emory University – Office of the President

GWU:

• Video: David Horowitz’s appearance at George Washington University
• CAIR Supporter Ejected – and his spin on that

Wisconsin:

• Our campus has higher standards
• YouTube video of Prof. Barrett’s meltdown during Horowitz’s speech

Elsewhere in Wackademia:

Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week (IFAW) has certainly brought out plenty of barking moonbats from the infamous leftist/jihadist convergence:

• Berkeley: Nonie Darwish at Berkeley (Zombie’s text, photos, video)
• Brown: Why I’m wearing green today
• Cal Aggie: Editorial Staff sanctimoniously condemns IFAW
• Harvard: Neo-Fascism Awareness Week
• Tufts: Photos of Useful Idiots Protesting Daniel Pipes at Tufts
• UCLA: USAC Votes to Condemn Islamo-Fascism Week

Stein hoist to Jenn Sierra and to Terp Mole on LGF!

Bad News in the EU

• Ain’t no free speech in the EU – it’s gonna be EXPENSIVE

Murder – The Ultimate Censorship

• UPDATE on the Copenhagen demonstration: MURDER ATTEMPT ON SIOE/SIAD DENMARK LEADER AND MEMBERS

Cartoon Censorship

• Reason Online: Revisiting the Danish Cartoon Crisis
  An interview with newspaper editor Flemming Rose
• Mohammed Clipart
  With some comic strips

Privacy and Freedom of the Press

• IN YOUR FACE! FURIOUS PUBLIC BACKLASH FORCES COUNTY ATTORNEY ANDREW THOMAS TO DROP CASE AGAINST NEW TIMES.

  Your opinion, in the blogosphere and elsewhere, makes a difference! Although Arpaio remains in office, the prosecution has backed off on this abusive venture. (See Tinpot Tyrant Sheriff Joe Arpaio Invades YOUR Internet Privacy for background.)

• Denmark: Defending Free Speech in the Mainstream Media

  Yes, it can be done; this article shows how!

  It has been said from time to time that Islam-critics are kept out by a ‘Media Wall’, barring certain viewpoints from the Mainstream Media.

  My experience doesn’t substantiate this. Over the last 2½ years, I had something in the league of 150 letters printed in the largest mainstream newspapers. My ‘hit rate’ varies wildly, but has at times been hovering at 60-70 %, well above the average of around 30 % in Danish papers.

  “But that’s Denmark, and you guys are special.”

  Might be. But a dozen of those letters were printed in International Herald Tribune, which is hardly a Danish special case.

The take-home lesson is encouraging:

Your time and effort is well spent when you write or blog to raise public awareness about threats to our First Amendment rights, or when you write, call, or email to protest against infringements on these rights.

Media Disinformation

Flooding both the blogosphere and traditional media with disinformation is a de facto method of censorship, because it crowds out any attempt to get true information in front of the public. Those using search engines will see the baloney at the top of the list, and most people won’t bother to dig down to find the real information. This technique is well known to black-hat search engine optimization (SEO) and “reputation management” purveyors.

• Documents from investigation of Scott Beauchamp: The New Republic

  TNR dragged its feet on the investigation, such as it was, of this journalistic fakery. Drudge posted these three docs; then took them down. But never fear; the intrepid Charles Johnson of LGF offers them now. Here’s his comment:

  #59 Charles 10/24/07 3:57:33 pm

  re: #43 marwan’s daughter

  But Charles, if these are real, then why did Drudge remove them? Hmm, maybe someone from TNR told him to cease and desist.

  They were not removed because they weren’t genuine, and no one threatened Drudge. I’m not at liberty to reveal anything more than that.

• Michael Yon: Beauchamp and the Rule of Second Chances
• McClatchy Reporter Calvan Created His Own Reality

Stein hoist to Little Green Footballs!

“Fairness” Doctrine

• Democrats for Censorship (or Freedom of Speech vs. the Fairness Doctrine)
• Fairness Doctrine Violates 1st Amendment

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