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EFF Launches "Takedown Hall of Shame"

Posted by kdawson on from the more-chilling dept.

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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  1. Re:NBC - MSNBC ? by commodore64_love · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Yeah well I guess I'm just sick of it. I'm now listening to White House people who are collecting salaries from MY taxdollars claiming fox is a "wing of the Republican party". Don't these persons have anything better to do than sling mud at the free press??? Besides we all know MSNBC is an arm of the Democratic Party. Which is fine - one channel's left - the other is right - the truth lies in between. I like BOTH channels because it's democracy in action.

    Anyway this tidbit is interesting:

    .....Fox News had sent three notices of copyright infringement demanding the takedown of Progress Illinois' videos. In the videos, Progress Illinois, a union-sponsored blog, apparently used short clips of Fox News coverage of local and national political events to set up political commentary about those events.....

    It's also disappointing that YouTube hasn't already restored the videos. When similar shenanigans took down campaign videos by Senators McCain [CBS] and Obama [NBC] during the presidential election season, we called on YouTube to take steps to protect online speech, among them human review of videos that have been subject to a counternotice, and immediate restoration of videos that are clearly noninfringing fair uses.

    --
    "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
  2. Re:NBC - MSNBC ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    News flash: Nobody is that interested in your opinion.

  3. Re:NBC - MSNBC ? by interkin3tic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So you're

    1. trying to get the troll mod removed by threatening more trolling, in the process trolling
    2. confusing "modding down" with censorship
    3. a fox news apologist

    I'm not quite sure if you're making trolls look bad or making fox news fans look bad.