Monthly Archives: August 2009

Corporate Censorship: GE and NewsCorp shut up Olbermann and O’Reilly

The New York Times ran an article this past Saturday, “Voices From Above Silence a Cable TV Feud”, about how GE and NewsCorp enforced a kind of “cease-fire” – otherwise known as corporate censorship – on MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and … Continue reading

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High school student sues Amazon for deleting 1984 from Kindle

Amazon.com is facing a class-action lawsuit for remotely deleting two George Orwell titles, 1984 and Animal Farm, from all its customers’ Kindles.  Justin Gawronski, 17, a Michigan high school student, and Antoine J. Bruguier, a California Kindle user, claim that … Continue reading

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