Category: Access & Censorship
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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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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…
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Yemeni president pardons reporter Obama wanted kept in jail
Link: he earned the ire of U.S. and Yemeni authorities for his reporting that revealed that a December 2009 bombing in the village of Majalla in the southern province of Abyan was an American cruise-missile attack that killed dozens of civilians, including 14 women and 21 children,rather than a Yemeni airstrike on an al Qaida…
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Syria: Jonathan Alpeyrie hostage by Michel Puech
Link: On April 29, they tell me that they’re going to see another group of fighters. It was a trap. I got into a 4×4 with the katiba officer, my fixer and two soldiers. We came to a checkpoint where masked men took me out of the car, forced me to kneel and pretended to…
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Judge Dismisses Privacy Lawsuit Against “Voyeur” Artist Arne Svenson
Link: “An artist may create and sell a work of art that resembles an individual without his or her written consent,” Judge Rakower wrote in her decision, underscoring a central principle of the case.
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SDX Foundation Funds National Police, Journalist Training
Link: The goal of the program is to foster greater understanding and awareness of the right to take photographs and record video in public without being interfered with, harassed or arrested.
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Rob Hornstra denied Russian visa; Moscow exhibition of The Sochi Project cancelled
Link: You can’t eat ‘reach’ and we can’t pay salaries with ‘brand awareness’. I don’t pretend to know other people’s business models or strategies. But successful business practices are always about having a close understanding of the costs of what you produce and the origins and mechanics of your revenues and more than anything else…
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McClatchy updates policy on handout photos: ‘it’s important to take a stance’
Link: The editors of McClatchy newspapers have agreed not to publish photography issued by the White House as part of a follow-up to concerns raised by news organizations over the administration’s increasingly stringent photo policies.
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Reporters covering Sarah Palin book-signing are locked in a room at Walmart
Jim Romenesko via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2013/11/14/reporters-covering-sarah-palin-book-signing-are-locked-in-a-room-at-walmart/ Philip Bump is told that guard keeping an eye on the reporters in the back room was provided by Palin’s camp
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Open Up The Oval
Link: The White House claims to be perplexed by this because, after all, they hired “one of your own” as they said, Pete Souza, to be Obama’s photographer. Can’t you trust Pete, they rhetorically asked? And his pictures are available for free, they pointed out, on the White House Flickr Web site. What’s the problem?
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Suspicionless searches at US border: the next battleground for press freedom
Link: US Customs and Border Patrol agents can detain American citizens for hours and seize laptops and phones without evidence or suspicion of wrongdoing. This has happened to a number of journalists, and press advocates worry that the frequency of these incidents is increasing.
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Google Under Fire for Data-Mining Student Email Messages
Google Under Fire for Data-Mining Student Email Messages The company acknowledges scanning the emails of Apps for Education users and faces allegations in a federal lawsuit that it built “surreptitious user profiles” for advertising purposes. via Education Week: http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/03/13/26google.h33.html “This should draw the attention of the U.S. Department of Education, the Federal Trade Commission, and…
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Baltimore police forcibly remove Sun photo editor from a shooting scene
Jim Romenesko via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2014/03/07/baltimore-police-forcibly-remove-sun-photo-editor-from-a-shooting-scene/ So why doesn’t Walmart just follow GettyMart’s example? Why not make 35 million products available for free like GettyMart has? Won’t that solve their shoplifting problem? After all, if you listen to the official word out of GettyMart, they see no other way to combat their electronic shoplifting except…
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Why The US Government Hasn’t Released Photos Of UBL’s Corpse
Why the White House hasn’t released photos of Osama bin Laden’s corpse There are a lot of puzzled expressions on people’s faces when it comes to the subject of the late Osama bin Laden and why the White House has not via SOFREP: https://sofrep.com/news/why-us-govt-hasnt-released-photos-ubl-corpse/ There are a lot of puzzled expressions on people’s faces when…