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Researchers at Harvard Law School are gathering empirical data on the censorship of internet content and are using it to develop software that can subvert filters...
...tracking global content filtering, a lot of which is undertaken in secret, and a lot of which is clandestine,” said Ronald J. Deibert, an associate professor with The Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto. “We are trying to get a sense of what kind of checks are being put on content by governments around the world...
...These are tools that allow citizens to get around content filters that exist in the countries that they live in,” Deibert said. “They would be distributed as an open source product for citizens to use worldwide...
...mention his bottom line--nothing emanating from Roger Ailes' cable channel remotely compares to News Corp.'s $6.6 billion takeover of satellite broadcaster DirecTV. The deal, approved by regulators in December, extends Murdoch's globe-spanning satellite empire to North America; bolsters his strategy of marrying distribution and content; and seems to have triggered, as his maneuvers often do, another tectonic shift in the communications landscape. Why is Comcast suddenly bidding for Disney and Viacom eyeing the cable industry? Because on the billiard table that is the media business, Murdoch is the cue ball. Everything he does creates a chain...
...self-justifying defenses of Hollywood hacks, and the gassy theorizing of academics. However, especially since her third book (Going Steady) appeared in 1970, she has become an established New Yorker commodity, and increasingly self-indulgent: her responses to films are at times based solely on their generalized erotic content. She has made claims that "male actors need a little bit of fascism to make them attractive." She has been seduced by the camera wizardry of Bob Fosse and Bertolucci, and turned off by the supposed machismo of Straw Dogs. She has also gone bananas over movies just because they have...