Category: Access & Censorship
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Newspapers Reveal Diplomatic Cables, While WikiLeaks Buckles Under Cyber Attack | Threat Level | Wired.com
Newspapers Reveal Diplomatic Cables Provided By WikiLeaks
The first news reports from WikiLeaks’ long-expected disclosure of a quarter-million State Department diplomatic cables appeared on major newspaper websites on Sunday, though WikiLeaks’ own website was unavailable, purportedly due to a traffic-flooding cyberattack.
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News photographer says cops asked him not to take pictures the day Henry Glover died | NOLA.com
A former photographer for The Times-Picayune (Alex Brandon) witnessed a “contentious situation” between three men and police officers after Hurricane Katrina, telling a federal jury Wednesday that he was ordered by police not to snap pictures of the scene.
Link: News photographer says cops asked him not to take pictures the day Henry Glover died | NOLA.com
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British Airways chairman: "stop kowtowing to US aviation security demands" – Boing Boing
British Airways chairman: “stop kowtowing to US aviation security demands”
Martin Broughton, the chairman of British Airways, has called on Britain’s aviation industry to stop “kowtowing” to the USA’s ridiculous and inconsistent aviation “sec…
via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/10/26/british-airways-chai.html
He suggested the practice of forcing passengers on US-bound flights to take off their shoes and to have their laptops checked separately in security lines should be dropped
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Philip-Lorca DiCorcia on Shooting in Public « Prison Photography
Philip-Lorca DiCorcia on Shooting in Public
‘I never talk to them… I don’t ask their permission. I don’t pay them… And eventually…I got into trouble’ – Philip-Lorca DiCorcia I’ve been thi…
via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/philip-lorca-dicorcia-on-shooting-in-public/
‘I never talk to them… I don’t ask their permission. I don’t pay them… And eventually…I got into trouble’
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Strictly No Photography
Photo-sharing for pictures taken where you are not allowed to take them
Link: Strictly No Photography
via: Duncan Davidson
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Secret Iraq war files offer grim new details
Secret Iraq war files offer grim new details
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/22/AR2010102201682.html?wprss=rss_world
A massive cache of secret U.S. field reports from the Iraq war provides grim new details about the toll of that conflict, indicating that more than 100,000 Iraqis were killed during a six-year stretch and that American forces often failed to intervene as the U.S.-backed government brutalized detainees, according to news organizations given access to the documents by the WikiLeaks Web site.
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You Can Photograph That Federal Building: Civil Liberties Union and Homeland Security Reach Agreement – NYTimes.com
The right of photographers to stand in a public place and take pictures of federal buildings has been upheld by a legal settlement reached in New York.
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Guernica / Here is New York
Thinking about 9/11:
Would Americans have reacted less violently to our most disturbing day if we’d been allowed to see photographs of its most disturbing aspects?
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Senate candidate's private security guards handcuff reporter – Boing Boing
Senate candidate’s private security guards handcuff reporter
Private security guards handcuffed and detained a journalist who tried to ask U.S. Senate Republican candidate Joe Miller questions at a campaign event in Alaska. The guards claim that he was tresp…
via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/10/18/senate-candidates-pr.html
“I’ve had nightmares these days,” Mr. Reygadas said from the cramped tent, as reporters jostled for space. “But the worst nightmare is all of you.”
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Twitter Reporting Blanketed Connecticut Murder Trial – NYTimes.com
A Grisly Murder Trial, in 140-Character Bits
With no cameras allowed in court, reporters tapped out instant updates as readers followed every word.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/16/nyregion/16cheshire.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
No television cameras were there to record the scene, but people around the state and beyond in offices and family rooms still followed every word. The medium? Twitter. Half a dozen reporters for mainstream Connecticut newspapers and television stations clicked out reports of up to 140 characters on iPads, smart phones and laptops.
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Will 400,000 Secret Iraq War Documents Restore WikiLeaks’ Sheen? | Threat Level | Wired.com
Will 400,000 Secret Iraq War Documents Restore WikiLeaks’ Sheen?
After a brief quiescence, the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks is about to explode again onto the global stage with the impending release of almost 400,000 secret U.S. Army reports from the Iraq War, marking the largest military leak in U.S. history. Mea
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/wikileaks-iraq/
After a brief quiescence, the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks is about to explode again onto the global stage with the impending release of almost 400,000 secret U.S. Army reports from the Iraq War, marking the largest military leak in U.S. history.
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White House Meeting for Black Journalists Doesn't Stay Off-The-Record for Long – NYTimes.com
The White House is usually quite good at keeping a muzzle on the media after one of its off-the-record sessions with President Obama and senior members of his administration.
But not this week.
Link: White House Meeting for Black Journalists Doesn’t Stay Off-The-Record for Long – NYTimes.com
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Supreme Court Won’t Review President’s Right to Eject Critics From Events | Threat Level
Supreme Court Won’t Review President’s Right to Eject Critics From Events
The Supreme Court is refusing to hear a legal challenge by two Americans ejected from a President George W. Bush event in 2005 for having a “no more blood for oil” bumper sticker on their vehicle. Only two justices voted Tuesday to review a lower court’s
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/no-blood-for-oi/
The Supreme Court is refusing to hear a legal challenge by two Americans ejected from a President George W. Bush event in 2005 for having a “no more blood for oil” bumper sticker on their vehicle.
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Pakistan military chief orders probe of execution video
Pakistan military chief orders probe of execution video
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/07/AR2010100707341.html?wprss=rss_world
The head of Pakistan’s military has ordered an investigation into a video, circulating on the Internet, that depicts the country’s soldiers executing blindfolded men in civilian dress.
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Editorial Photographers UK | Who’s afraid of photographers? seminar
A seminar at the House of Commons on Thursday, October 28 will examine the persistent problem of police hindrance of photographers, as well the wider issue of encroaching privacy law.
Link: Editorial Photographers UK | Who’s afraid of photographers? seminar
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Iranian hard-liners upset over political prisoners' letters
Iranian hard-liners upset over political prisoners’ letters
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/01/AR2010100103519.html?wprss=rss_world
Abdollah Momeni, a former student leader, described in vivid detail in a recent letter how he was brutally beaten dozens of times by his interrogators, kept for weeks in a tomb-like cell and forced to confess to crimes he says he did not commit.
“All this treatment is carried out in the framework of a religious regime, justified by claims of protecting the state,”
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WikiLeaks spokesman, leaving group, describes dysfunction behind the scenes
WikiLeaks spokesman, leaving group, describes dysfunction behind the scenes
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/28/AR2010092805972.html?wprss=rss_world
“Wikileaks has a structural problem,” he said. “That’s why I’m leaving the project.