links for 2006-10-26

• ICE: Internet Censorship Explorer » Iraq, Memory Holes, SmartFilter and a whole lot more
  Cyber-freedom-fighter Nart Villeneuve investigates reports that the U.S. Airforce is censoring political blogs, and finds that at least parts of the U.S. military seem to be filtering content with a U.S. commercial product, SmartFilter. Is the U.S. getti
  (tags: censorship u.s.a. freespeech politics)
• Meanwhile: Russia's last refuge: the blogosphere - Editorials & Commentary - International Herald Tribune
  Journalist Evgeny Morozov comments on LiveJournal's alliance with the Russian company SUP: "What's so pernicious about the deal is that it replicates the very Kremlin model that poisoned the rest of the Russian media."
  (tags: russia freespeech surveillance censorship blogs blogging trust media journalism)

Comments

[mahathir_fan]

Ironic that the so called Defenders of Freedom would have it necessary to restrict freedom of its own soldiers.