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Shooting the Messenger

online reporting by INDependent journalist Dean Sterling Jones

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  • WordPress Yields to Putin

    WORDPRESS CENSORS PUTIN-HITLER MOCK PHOTO on request of Russian state media watchdog Roskomnadzor. UPDATE, November 26, 2024: Automattic has rejected a demand from Roskomnadzor to censor this post. A couple of months ago, Russia’s state media regulator Roskomnadzor sent a complaint to WordPress demanding that it remove a doctored photo of Russian President Vladimir Putin dressed as…

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  • Erdoğan Strikes Again

    WordPress geo-blocks Turkish political blog that posted cartoons by internationally renowned satirical cartoonists following court order from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Last month, İstanbul lawyer Ahmet Özel filed a complaint with WordPress on behalf of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The complaint, in the form of a court order, requested that WordPress restrict access to a Turkish…

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  • Dishing the Dirt

    Techdirt.com publishes article based on my blog post re: failed attempt to censor journalists reporting on crime in Massachusetts [UPDATE: Massachusetts cops says someone else filed the fraudulent DMCA requests] Yesterday, Techdirt.com founder/editor Mike Masnick – and, incidentally, the man who coined the term the “Streisand effect” – wrote an article based on my November 18,…

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  • Down by [Copyright] Law

    Are Massachusetts cops trying to censor local journalists? [UPDATE: Massachusetts cops says someone else filed the fraudulent DMCA requests] Earlier this month, ‘legal agent’ Mike Ferrell filed a copyright complaint with Google¹ on behalf of the Burlington Police Department, in Massachusetts, requesting the deletion of a number of local news articles regarding arrests made by the department. In his November…

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