EFF Launches "Takedown Hall of Shame"

netbuzz writes "Recognizing that public shame is a potent weapon, the Electronic Frontier Foundation today launched a new Web site — its Takedown Hall of Shame — that will shine an unflattering spotlight on those corporations and individuals who abuse copyright claims to stifle free speech. Among the early inductees are NPR, NBC, CBS, and Diebold."

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They forgot one

[TubeSteak]

How about the Church of Scientology?
Their censorship is the entire reason the /b/tards started harassing them.

Clear number 1

[Anonymous Coward]

Shouldn't the number one "shame" spot go to the congress that passed the DMCA?

Re:NBC - MSNBC ?

[bennomatic]

That's one of the sillier posts I've ever seen. There are lots of things that a media outlet can do that are worthy of complaints even if they are not under the umbrella of censorship.

Examples:

• Promoting lies and misrepresentations as if they were facts.
• Creating a fake "grassroots" movement and promoting it as if it were real.
• Publishing verbatim talking points from one political party as if they were objective news.
• Claiming to be a news agency while dropping any hints of objective reporting.

Now, it's normal for a media outlet to have its own slant or bias; even a corporation evolves a "culture" which colors what is reported. However, Fox is not even rationally consistent with its judgements; take, for example, back to back reports on Britney Spears' younger sister being pregnant vs. Sarah Palin's daughter being pregnant. Bill O'Reilly went from calling Spears' parents "pinheads" to saying that "the liberal media's judgement of Palin is outrageous" without taking a breath. It would be funny if it weren't so tragic.

Local Fox affiliates have normal news. The parent news agency, with their "Fox and Friends", Beck, Hannity, O'Reilly and more, are entertainment at best, a propaganda agency at worst, even in those segments where they claim to be news.