Category Archives: Censorship

Malaysia Bans Ballet

The Malay­sian gov­ern­ment has inex­plic­ably banned the entry of the Singa­pore Dance Troupe due to “inde­cent” attire. A Singa­por­ean dance troupe has been denied a per­mit to per­form here this week­end owing to their “inde­cent” cos­tumes, a Malay­sian dance organ­isa­tion said today. MyDance Alli­ance pres­id­ent Bilqis Hij­jas said the decision by Puspal against the Singa­pore Dance …

Thursday, 5th April, 2012 – 2048 | By Rewarp | Posted in Censorship | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Wikileaks/Mastercard

Couldn’t get down to blog­ging for the past few days as the mobile broad­band con­nec­tion at my cur­rent medium-term abode is some­how at the very edge of the DiGi bor­der of Internet-land. When I do find myself in such a land, I also find myself sep­ar­ated from the nearest source of elec­tri­city, thus lim­it­ing my …

Monday, 22nd August, 2011 – 0306 | By Rewarp | Posted in Censorship, Donate, Free Speech, Geeky, Human Rights, People, Politics, Poverty, Social Issues, Stuff | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Don’t Touch My Internet

This pic­ture says it all. For fur­ther details, my pre­vi­ous art­icle is still unfor­tu­nately relevant.

Saturday, 5th February, 2011 – 0856 | By Rewarp | Posted in Censorship, Free Speech, Politics | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

How This Site Will Die

The Malay­sian gov­ern­ment has no power over the Inter­net. Mahathir, in a bizarre stroke of insan­ity incon­gru­ent with his appar­ent obses­sion with con­trolling every detail of the coun­try (right down to har­anguing Prime Min­is­ter Badawi dur­ing his ten­ure), forced the MSC Bill of Guar­an­tees down the throats of every single politi­cian in Malay­sia. Insanely incon­gru­ent …

Wednesday, 26th January, 2011 – 1050 | By Rewarp | Posted in Censorship | Tagged , , , | Comments (1)

Thou Art Blacklisted

The United States. Once a beacon of free­dom of speech, seems to have decided to move towards a police-state gov­erned by cor­por­ate interests. The Com­bat­ing Online Infringe­ment and Coun­ter­feits Act is pur­portedly inten­ded to remove sites infringing upon copy­rights. In prac­tice, it is more of a case of cen­sor­ship as Techdirt’s Mike Mas­nick notes: …the …

Sunday, 23rd January, 2011 – 1238 | By Rewarp | Posted in Censorship | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Our Universities are Comparably Ineffective

Never in my life­time, my very very short life­time, have I heard of an aca­dem­i­cian in my uni­ver­sity, let alone the entire aca­demic fra­tern­ity come out in defence of a student’s view. No mat­ter how offens­ive to whomever so feels offen­ded. Ross Ander­son from Cam­bridge Uni­ver­sity pos­ted a reply to bankers last Christ­mas regard­ing a …

Tuesday, 4th January, 2011 – 1331 | By Rewarp | Posted in Censorship, Science | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Universal Music Tried to Ban These Videos

For a simple reason. They show music exec­ut­ives in excru­ci­at­ingly small sec­tions of the report by the 20/20 pro­gramme talk­ing about the end of the music industry due to radio and copy­ing on cas­sette tapes. A more sali­ent art­icle can be found on tech­dirt. You can watch the videos below.

Saturday, 30th October, 2010 – 1432 | By Rewarp | Posted in Censorship, Music | Tagged , , | Comments (0)