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You may be right or not. When ever you have a proof, show it.

Also, your information is wrong here:

Three Interfax journalists have been murdered by Putin's thugs

https://cpj.org/killed/europe/...

Sergei Grebenyuk, Interfax
1996-02-08 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Yuri Soltis, Interfax
1994-06-12 in Moscow, Russia

At least, 2 Interfax journalists were kill when Eltsin was the president of Russia. No information of the third one.
So, better to polish your bullshit before wasting my time again!

Case in point: Turkey.

And for those that are not aware of how bad the situation in Turkey is: while having one percent of the world's population they are responsible for one third or
more of the world's jailed journalists.

I don't think governments in warzones/dictatorships really care about that.

As I post this the confirmed current count for journalists killed in 2016 is 46. Cases of imprisonment and beatings are a multiple of this.

First, that's not a real quote. It's one of many that people paraphrase or flat out make up. Which is strange because he says enough controversial stuff you would think people with have to make up stuff.

It's amazing the lengths that the press is going after Trump by flat out lying or at least playing word games.

This is one of my favorites 'You were born in a Taco Bell': Trump's rhetoric fuels school bullies across US If you read the article, you will see a few paragraphs in that Trump never used that phrase; it was one of the kids there.

And Obama is pretty restricting on the press. You don't hear about it as often because they put up with it since they support his policies.

https://cpj.org/reports/2013/1...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Keep getting your news from Russian media.

Freedom of the press has taken a huge hit under the Obama admin.
Although one could argue that the wheels were set in motion during Bush's watch, it was under Obama's Napolitano that we lost the freedom to not be groped or oggled at the airport.

Additionally there is a lack of trust in western medical practices.

That's not the only problem.

Oh, it's worse than just them:

http://www.cpj.org/reports/2013/10/obama-and-the-press-us-leaks-surveillance-post-911.php

Six government employees, plus two contractors including Edward Snowden, have been subjects of felony criminal prosecutions since 2009 under the 1917 Espionage Act, accused of leaking classified information to the press - compared with a total of three such prosecutions in all previous U.S. administrations.

I have lived in Vietnam for 18 months 8 years ago and i am planning to retire there soon. There is already censorship of Facecrack and other social sites, but most of the users get around it by using proxies. The BBC in Vietnamese is also banned and blocked by the parties firewall and again its easy to circumvent for the technically minded. The problem is not necessary the decrees as most of the population south of Hanoi simply see the police and government as a nuisance, its the punishments if you get caught publishing information about the corruption that's rife from the top down. When you get to court you have no defence and you will be punished as the government sees fit. http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=15824 https://www.cpj.org/2013/02/vietnam-detains-blogger-who-covered-corruption.php They recently stated that all Vietnamese must report if they see anyone using the internet in any way that opposes the government, which makes it difficult to know who is watching you, let alone the ISP's reporting your internet usage and the sites you visited, and any activist would not use a public terminal as eyes are everywhere. If they cant arrest you, they can make it very hard for you, we got moved 3 times by the police telling our landlords that we were not allowed to live in the places we rented just because we are legally married lesbians and we choose to live together in Saigon, during the harassment by the police we were detained and questioned by plain clothes police. They threatened to deport me and imprison my Vietnamese wife just because we choose to co-habit, in the end we had to lie to the police saying that we lived in separate houses, just to be able to live there. I think they have since relaxed the homophobic laws and I they say they will allow gay marriage in Vietnam at some point soon, but they will never relax the laws about reporting corruption as they are scared very scared.

You sir are a moron. He did no such thing. He leaked un-redacted documents to WikiLeaks. Yes, they(WikiLeaks, not PFC Manning) initially redacted the information, but only when reporters refused to publish the documents unless they did. And later they had a security breach where the documents were leaked into the wild without the redactions. This has since put both international reporters & dissidents in great harm. In China for example, dissidents listed on the documents from PFC Manning were hunted down by what amounts to lynch mobs. And in parts of Africa, reporters were forcibly removed from countries because their names appeared on US Embassy visitor logs.

Try verifying your information before opening your moronic mouth.

The Guardian has a honey pot full of shit. And journalists with integrity have very short careers...

Well, firstly, for someone (Assange) who's all about freedom of press, exposing secrets, etcetera, it's pretty darned hypocritical of him to go to Ecuador. He should be exposing them. President Correa:

Isacson and other experts point out that Correa loves disclosures when it suits him, but he has one of the worst reputations in Latin America for cracking down on journalists. Correa has filed defamation complaints against journalists who criticized him, forced independent radio and television stations to air lengthy rebuttals of critical reports, pre-empted programming and temporarily shut some stations down, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Of course, they had a great rapport on Assange's television program. You know, the one that is financed by the Kremlin - not exactly an entity known for stellar journalistic freedom.

I'm sure Ecuador had a great story prepared, but it's also probably just as convenient to recognize that this anti-US rhetoric will play out very well in Ecuador and surrounding countries, which will help Correa in the elections coming up in February, given his popularity has been sliding quite badly.

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Okay, there's 10 citations for you. Begin your spin, denouncements, deflections, justifications, and outright lies.....

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It says he was imprisoned on charges that include firearms charges and property damage, so no not really. You would have been better off going for this article which is about journalists being charged for something they actually printed. The actual tabloid article they were arrested for showed pictures of female members of the judiciary as prostitutes (using their faces on a stock photo). If anyone can find the text of this article I would be interested. So I have found your citation for you, proving that I am in fact impartial and genuinely want to be informed. I disagree with the charges and believe that journalists should be able to say what they want, I think the Chavez administration has overstepped its authority in this case. Now should I spend hours on the internet searching for documents proving that Chavez also kills journalists or do you want to admit you are full of shit?

Oh wait, I have found some totally unsubstantiated allegations of extra-judicial killing of journalists in Venezuela too. Some journalists were killed but no one knows exactly who killed them and speculate that it may have been politically motivated. It is not proof but it is still a cause for concern.

So now I am actually concerned about state repression of the media in Venezuela. Thanks to... oh wait. No thanks to some people who couldn't find a reliable source for their own backside. I hope you are embarrassed. I was asking a reasonable question, when I state something I find citations for it on request. I resent being called an asshole for not swallowing your opinion whole without thinking for myself. I also resent having my internet search skills insulted by someone who fails basic reading comprehension. Don't make me search for your citations next time, that is your job.

F'ing computers indeed.

http://news.yahoo.com/ap-exclusive-cia-following-twitter-facebook-081055316.html

http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED246534&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED246534

http://www.cpj.org/reports/2011/05/the-10-tools-of-online-oppressors.php

If what the Judge said is true that she is retaliating for a loss of financial support she sounds like a spoiled tool.

Blackmail your own family? Whip her again.

Tons of ridiculous Italian laws get proposed, most of them don't pass. This is one of the many ways politicians in Italy waste time and money. Of course, even if this doesn't pass, Italy is still in a very sad state of affairs. Italy's keeping company to Burkina Faso on the Freedom of Press Index. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index ]. The problem stems from the godlike power given to Italian judges and politicians. Want a pertinent example? How about Giuliano Mignini, now internationally renowned for his demented control of the Meridith Kercher investigation. This following letter was by the Committee to Protect Journalists to the President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano. It highlights several very grave abuses of power committed by Mignini in the past. [ http://www.cpj.org/2011/04/journalists-threatened-for-reporting-on-murder-cas.php ]

I work with independent journalists in this and other at-risk countries, and consult with those seeking to protect activists. While you are perhaps right that the threat is, at heart, one of human rights, protecting those attempting to change or document that situation is also important. And lack of on-the-wire encryption also presents an almost constant temptation to even other countries supposedly better protected by the rule of law. The pervasive data-mining conducted by AT&T on behalf of the NSA is the obvious (and known) example here. I'm sure there are plenty more.

I don't think it's correct to characterise this as a "scarecrow" when a) we have actual evidence of countries using unencrypted communications to repress critics and protests against the regime, and b) this is a problem that all Internet users potentially face worldwide.

In order to protect and improve free speech and other rights, we need to build systems that are resilient when those rights are under attack.

In the USofA you're a "terrorist" if you take pictures that the whores in Washington don't want you to http://cpj.org/2010/11/journalists-arrested-at-school-of-the-americas-pro.php .

Good news! Russia *does* have some secret police watching out for this sort of issue. Their job is to KILL YOU when you start to complain about this problem.

http://www.cpj.org/killed/europe/russia/
http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1071933.html

Well, in my experience, sometimes they cannot do anything about it but self-censor or the newspaper/television network try to censor.
Sometimes for money (bribe) but i can tell, most of the time is fear.

In my town not so long a journalist was investigating about the drug dealer drugs, more like crime organized groups which are rampant in Mexico plus Police and Military corruption, what happened?

Offices of the newspaper being attacked as a "warning"
http://www.vanguardia.com.mx/diario/noticia/torreon/coahuila/balean_instalaciones_de_el_siglo_de_torreon/395208

What happens to the journalist?
He got kidnapped, tortured and killed.

http://cpj.org/2009/05/mexican-journalist-who-covered-police-is-abducted.php

It's the Chinese government's own figures. They have been widely reported. Here are a couple of links and I am sure Google can provide many more. (That tresriogrande troll might want to check a few before shooting his mouth off next time.)

For instance: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/20/international/asia/20china.html

A paragraph from http://www.cpj.org/Briefings/2006/DA_spring_06/china/china_06.html

Let's see if I got it right. Freedom of speech on a BLOG, safe in the anonymity of my alias, living in a foreign country far far away from the States trumps freedom of peaceful assembly, right to a speedy and public trial, right to not to be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment, and, of course, as I linked above, freedom of speech. Is it right?

Yeah, I don't think so either. Knowing that the right to tell the government wrongdoing exists is not comfort enough for me, and shouldn't be for you too.

Btw, bloggers in Egypt are being arrested, did you know? Isn't is at least as bad as in Cuba? Why is U.S. still ally with Egypt? No embargo, no sanction, no nothing? What about Pakistani and foreign jornalists being arrested on Pakistan too? Won't U.S. do something about that, apart from being a steady ally in the "global war on terror"? Why there is no indignation on U.S. media, on U.S. people about that? Castro or Chavez sneezes and people make such a fuzz, while U.S. treats "Soviet" China as one of the most valuable trade partners.

You people are being treated like cattle, taught to look at the wrong way, at the wrong "enemies", an invented Goldstein for you to vent your daily Two Minutes of Hate.

The chance is equal to zero, he didn't reluctantly admit to be the boss of it. Terrorists don't reluctantly admit the attacks, terrorists claim their attacks, revendication is part of the purpose of an attack, terrorists don't deny their attacks, saying stuff like "as a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie", and then less than 9 days later (the interview was from the 28th september, the video was broadcasted the 7th october, you can presume it was not made on the 7th but even earlier) admit it reluctantly (btw he also denied having anything to do with the attacks earlier on al-Jazeera)

Look at it this way, he said in interviews that he didn't do it. Then he said in videos he did it. But where are these videos coming from? Al Jazeera.

It appears that a very few days before the airing of that first bin Laden tape (on the 7th october 2001) the US pressured al-Jazeera.

From the Committee to Protect Journalists : "Following a meeting yesterday (October 3, 2001, 4 days before the broadcasting) in Washington, D.C., with U.S. secretary of state Colin Powell, Qatari ruler Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani acknowledged that U.S. officials had asked him to use his influence to rein in Al-Jazeera's news coverage." (you can also find about it here). I let you make your own conclusions

You probably also have heard of how his videos are controversial, although systematically authentified by the American intelligence, maybe some site like this one will convince you that it's not him on the tape?

Oh, I get it. Everybody else is so much "worse". So it's okay for us to act badly so long as it doesn't appear to be as bad as the "other guy". So China has 32 journalists in prison. The Americans have 5 that we know about(this doesn't count those in prison for not revealing their sources, how convenient). That's okay in your book? It's certainly what you're implying. It might behoove you to check out the reasons that the "freedom loving" Americans have them locked up. Of course we won't know that because the "reasons" are classified. I know, you're going to tell me that we don't execute journalists. No, we "outsource" that job to the extremists. Just like we don't torture prisoners. We just reward the other inmates to do it for us. You just go on believing their spin, like they're actually telling the truth or something.

Oh, I get it. Everybody else is so much "worse". So it's okay for us to act badly so long as it doesn't appear to be as bad as the "other guy". So China has 32 journalists in prison. The Americans have 5 that we know about(this doesn't count those in prison for not revealing their sources, how convenient). That's okay in your book? It's certainly what you're implying. It might behoove you to check out the reasons that the "freedom loving" Americans have them locked up. Of course we won't know that because the "reasons" are classified. I know, you're going to tell me that we don't execute journalists. No, we "outsource" that job to the extremists. Just like we don't torture prisoners. We just reward the other inmates to do it for us. You just go on believing their spin, like they're actually telling the truth or something.

More detail for you: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/globalvoices/2005/09/ 06/warning-yahoo-wont-protect-you/

Officials from the Changsha security bureau detained Shi near his home in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, on November 24, 2004, several months after he e-mailed notes detailing the propaganda ministry's instructions to the media about coverage of the anniversary of the crackdown at Tiananmen Square. Authorities confiscated his computer and other documents and warned his family to stay quiet about the matter.

On December 14, authorities issued a formal arrest order, charging Shi with "leaking state secrets." On April 27, 2005, the Changsha Intermediate People's Court found Shi guilty and sentenced him to a 10-year prison term.

I'm sorry, but what a shocker. China tosses a journalist in jail for 10 years for a mislabled "crime". Here is a picture of this Chinese James Bond http://www.cpj.org/news/2005/China25aug05na.html

It should be of no suprise to anyone that Tao's appeal was rejected without reason nor public hearing. As is correctly pointed out at http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=14884 does Yahoo! simply state they are just following a countries law? When do they have ANY ethical considerations? Can the law in China stipulate that child labor is lawfull and Yahoo could practice this under the same defense?

Yahoo is the ONLY American search engine that has agreed to self sensor it's search results. They have invested heavily in China and as a result bow to their every request. "Just follwing the law" is not a defense for Yahoo in my opinion. Self censoring your search results is one thing, cooperating with Chinese security officials to track down an IP address is another.

Here is Mr. Tao's verdict http://www.rsf.org/IMG/pdf/Verdict_Shi_Tao.pdf

I dare you to name one single American journalist who has been imprisoned merely for what he/she has said or written.

News on the front page, just from today.

some English media have a little translated excerpts: here and here. and there's a screenshot of one of the Liu Di's original post, in this one, she criticized PRC government for arresting a computer engineer Huang Qi (ye, a geek like you and me), who accidently named his website "64tianwang" (64 Sky Net) on June 4 because "tianwang" is occupied. There are also two pictures of the young girl (one two) on that dedicated site.

Or, perhaps you're thinking of Qatar. You remember Qatar, right? Another brutal little monarchy with a state run news agency Al-Jazeera that that routinely give Osama bin Laden a pulpit from which to taunt the world.

Maybe I'm being too subtle. I'll be direct. If you think that Saddam is responsible for September 11th, you're a damned moron. If you think that the American government really has any intention to bring justice on those countries that continue to be the biggest direct supporters of the terror cells that created September 11th, you're damned moron.

Committee to Protect Journalists
330 Seventh Avenue, 12th floor
New York, NY 10001

His Excellency Jiang Zemin
President, People's Republic of China
C/o Embassy of the People's Republic of China
2300 Connecticut Ave., NW
Washington, D.C. 20008

Via facsimile: (202) 588-0032

Your Excellency:

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is very concerned by the Chinese government's apparent blocking of domestic access to the Google Internet search engine. Such censorship directly affects China-based journalists' ability to conduct research and impedes citizens' access to news that is unavailable in China's tightly controlled domestic media.

On August 31, both the English and Chinese-language search engines operated by Google became inaccessible to Internet users in China. In a public statement, a spokesperson for Google confirmed that the site was blocked inside China and said that the government offered no explanation. . .facsimile

Harvard: Where's Wan Yahihai?

Your Excellency:

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is very concerned by the Chinese government's apparent blocking of domestic access to the Google Internet search engine. Such censorship directly affects China-based journalists' ability to conduct research and impedes citizens' access to news that is unavailable in China's tightly controlled domestic media. . .facsimile

Many reporters have highlighted Wan's work in raising awareness about HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, - and also Gay & Lesbian rights in China. CPJ also highlight Wan's role as a webmaster - and as a leading critic of Beijing's neo-fascist Information enviroment, and cult-like Pledge of Self-Discipline Yahoo!

CPJ concerned about safety of Web publisher

Wan Yanhai is a courageous man - our thoughts are with him, Su Zhaosheng - his wife, and his family.

Read: The Great Firewall of China, by Xiao Qiang, Executive Director, HRIC - and CPJ's Asia Research Associate Sophie Beach, from the L.A. Times of August 25, 2002....

http://www.aizhi.org/ [aizhi.org]

Starting testing...

Stage one testing complete.
Stage two testing complete.

Testing complete for http://www.aizhi.org/.
Result:

Reported as accessible in China

Tested at request of Greg Walton,
China's Golden Shield, Corporate complicity in the development of surveillance technology in China Le bouclier d'or de la Chine

Open Source Intelligence

Http://go.openflows.org [openflows.org]

Related stories:

Where is Wan Yanhai?
China's most prominent AIDS activist has been "disappeared" - believed to have been detained by the police, relatives and human rights groups said yesterday.

China Net Spies

...there was recent evidence that state censors had removed the blocks on some banned Web sites to see who tried to access them. "The reverse-trace route monitoring we do on a regular basis shows a surprising number of interesting sites that were once blocked are now going through, but with anomalous traffic signatures, suggesting some systematic surveillance of sensitive sites. Perhaps the PSB [Public Security Bureau] is trying to learn more about surfing habits," he said.

The "Great Firewall" is failing
Beyond the Great Firewall - from censorship to surveillance
Gartner: China's Internet Strategy: Struggling to Maintain the "Great Firewall"
China, Nortel, and the Net

or Ethan Gutmann's Who Lost China's Internet?

if you're still interested.....Chapter Two of the private RAND study published Tuesday, "You've got dissent"offers an authoritative analysis of the evolving, multi-layered counter-netwar strategies deployed in the PRC -> increasingly redistributing the focus of the so-called "Great Firewall" from the International Gateways, through the ISPs and out to the cybercafes [;-)cracked versions of these filters available], the possibility of .cn ISPs setting policy on individuals' firewalls in offices and homes

Endnotes: Zi Xiang Mao Dun

P2P geektivists could note a parallel decentralisation of resources in the Future Trends section, in Chapter One for more on innovation at the Edge of the network:

"Dissidents, Falungong practitioners, and other activists in the PRC and abroad may increasingly turn to emerging peer-to-peer technology to exchange information."

All this augurs a mighty struggle deep indside China's networks in the coming years, but with China sending dissidents to mental hospitals a culture of self-censorship is probably the gravest challenge to free experssion.

Note to CowBoyNeal,language barrier: this installation has problems with Chinese charcters - there'd probably be people out there who have modified SLASHcode to handle Chinese UNICODE, and perhaps publish automatically to USENET, Freenet etc.

they'd probably also find time to translate this thread.

i'd like to go on, but some government employed s'kripty in Yunan's is busy thinking he can backdoor my network - its not an ethical thing - its the aesthetics i've got a problem with...so crude, juvenile. I'll leave you with a final link

Yeah, I'll probably loose karma for quoting Ecclesiastes 1:9, but it is Sunday, and we are talking about China ... and it's no like we haven't talked about this subject before, even on our beloved /.

Still, for those who thought human rights weren't an olympic issue, just think of how much fun it's not going to be to go the Olympics and attempt to transmit stories and images of the results from behind the Great Firewall. So much for thinking that bringing commerce and communications would have the same effect as the barbarians did to Rome.

Hopefully, some clever hacks out there will figure ways of circumventing, if the price isn't too high. Sometimes I just wonder if we just shouldn't have listened to Patton and MacArthur and been done with the problem 50 years ago ?!