Category: Access & Censorship
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Olympics’ security guards “trained to deter people from taking photographs”
Link: A manager for G4S, a security firm, has said that security guards working to protect the Olympic site in London are trained to deter people from taking photographs, it has been claimed
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Vogue’s flattering profile on Assad’s wife disappears from Web
Link: Although the Vogue piece didn’t mention it, the photos that accompanied the article — of Asma al-Assad, her husband and two of their children at home in Damascus — were facilitated by an American public-relations firm working for the Syrian government. The firm, Brown Lloyd James, was paid $25,000 to set up a photo…
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Judge rules against Nikon in controversial ‘comfort women’ case
Link: Nikon has been forced to reopen a controversial exhibition on Korean comfort women in Japan after a judge found in favour of the photographer
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Photographers protest Stone Roses concert rules
Link: Press photographers, backed by the National Union of Journalists, are calling for a boycott of the Stone Roses reunion concerts in protest of rights-grabbing photography rules
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Police Intimidation Watch: University of California to Pay Photog $162,500 for Wrongful Arrest
Link: UC Berkeley police arrested photographer David Morse at the scene of a protest at the home of the University of California chancellor. Police allegedly told Morse they wanted his camera in order to identify protesters who committed acts of vandalism at the scene
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Explanation please, Twitter
Jim Romenesko via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2012/07/31/explanation-please-twitter/ After The Independent’s Guy Adams was suspended from Twitter for posting an NBC executive’s public work email address, Laura Gluhanich tweeted….
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Photographers Rights – Covering the Upcoming National Conventions
Link: Know when to back off. It’s all well and good to quote case law and scream about your rights (and believe me, I’ve seen plenty of photographers whip out these old chestnuts,) but at some point it’s not going to be enough and you’ll be faced with having to either keep shooting knowing you…
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Concern mounts over U.S. journalist in Syria; Austin Tice’s whereabouts unknown
Link: The family of Austin Tice, an American freelance journalist who has been reporting from Syria for The Washington Post and other news organizations, said Thursday that it has not heard from him for more than a week and is concerned for his welfare.
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Photoshopping Dissent: Circumventing China’s Censors With Internet Memes
Photoshopping Dissent: Circumventing China’s Censors With Internet Memes Chinese web users are giving low-brow meme culture a political tinge, pushing the boundaries of free online speech. via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/09/photoshopping-dissent-circumventing-chinas-censors-with-internet-memes/261911/ Indeed, netizen participation in China is extra significant considering the country’s reliance on “soft” censorship: A blend of algorithms, firewalls and private business cooperation that…
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If Google yanks “Innocence of Muslims,” will it lose its DMCA Safe Harbor?
Link: The New York Times has assembled a “Convention Storybook,” an online archive of the conventions. It is a look inside the two parties as they sought to articulate their platforms and positions as clearly as possible, without interference. The “Convention Storybook” presents photographs by Stephen Crowley, Josh Haner, Todd Heisler, Doug Mills, Damon Winter,…
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TSA Confiscates Camera, Deletes Footage of Checkpoint
Link: Despite the TSA admitting on its own website that there is no law which prevents people from filming TSA checkpoints, a man traveling through San Juan airport in Puerto Rico had his camera confiscated and footage deleted.
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Strange “jihadi” video of Austin Tice, U.S. reporter missing in Syria
Link: It’s like a caricature of a jihadi group. It looks like someone went to the Internet, watched pictures of Afghan mujahedeen, then copied them.”—Joseph Holliday,
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Why I’m okay with photos of the dead.
Link: I’m not sure what we gain by keeping these deaths obscured from view. If anything, it can leave us with the unreal sense that life is somehow free of fatal consequence.
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Journalists face conflict when covering Israel-Gaza attacks
Link: Journalists have been wounded, censored and prevented from leaving the Gaza strip while covering five days of air strikes and bombings from both sides of the Israel-Gaza conflict.
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These Photos of a Kidnapped FBI Agent in a Gitmo Jumpsuit… Were Sent by Iran?
Link: U.S. officials now believe that individuals working with the government of Iran delivered pictures and video of Robert Levinson — the ex-FBI agent who disappeared in Kish, Iran, in 2007 — to Levinson’s family in 2011
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Google releases detailed map of North Korea, gulags and all
Google releases detailed map of North Korea, gulags and all Google Maps rolls out a detailed may of the secretive state. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/01/28/google-releases-detailed-map-of-north-korea-gulags-and-all/ The new map labels everything from Pyongyang’s subway stops to the country’s several city-sized gulags, as well as its golf courses, hotels, hospitals and department stores.
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Confusing coverage in breaking news may be SOP, but censoring tweets is new
Link: “It’s not unusual, particularly in a police standoff, for police to ask television in particular to be very careful in their live coverage,” Poynter’s Al Tompkins told me in a phone call. “But this idea of Twitter coverage is a new wrinkle.”
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This powerful video shows Iran’s worsening crackdown on journalists
This powerful video shows Iran’s worsening crackdown on journalists “Only Somali journalists have gone into exile in higher numbers.” via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/05/10/this-powerful-video-shows-irans-worsening-crackdown-on-journalists/ A video by the Committee to Protect Journalists shows a rising trend in reporters being imprisoned for such charges as “insulting the supreme leader” or “spreading propaganda against the state;” in other…
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Why Can’t We Take Pictures in Art Museums?
Why Can’t We Take Pictures in Art Museums? In an attempt to balance copyright restrictions and ever-present camera phones, some museums are loosening their ‘no photography’ policies via ARTnews.com: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/photography-in-art-museums-2222/ “You are fighting an uphill battle if you restrict,” says Nina Simon, director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History and author of…