As tech-savvy government efforts like 18F and the USDS take technological strides forward, other parts of the government are abandoning modern technology..

The responses I received from federal employees working on climate reminded me of interviewing scientists in China. My presence inspired fear. By Sharon Lerner.

Reports started coming out this morning that the new Trump Administration had told the EPA that it needed to stop doing anything publicly without first getting approval from the White House. this was not just for the EPA.

On the one hand, the role of the art lawyer has been to lubricate the wheels of commerce. But this approach runs the risk of missing the most illuminating contributions to art law itself.

Here's a look at some of this year’s acts of art censorship.

CBS News reported developers increased pressure on Facebook to address its “fake news problem” with a browser extension called the “B.S. Detector.” It claimed the extension relies upon “a constantly-updated list of known fake news sites, propaganda mills and ‘promoters of kooky conspiracy theories’” as a reference point. However, CBS News was wrong. By Kevin Gosztola,

Russia has been working on incorporating elements of China’s Great Firewall into the “Red Web”, the country’s system of internet filtering and control, after unprecedented cyber collaboration between the countries. A decision earlier this month to block the networking site LinkedIn in Russia is the most visible in a series of measures to bring the internet under greater state control.

The Kremlin has joined forces with Chinese authorities to bring the internet and its users under greater state control. By Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan.

Facebook has long drawn ire over its tendency to censor users’ posts based on its opaque standards. But under leaked proposals from a controversial European trade deal, the social network and other online services could be granted legal immunity when censoring any content, as long as it’s deemed “harmful or objectionable.” The measure is one of several internet-related proposals being advanced by the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), according to a leaked section of the agreement published by Greenpeace and the German digital rights blog Netzpolitik.

As expected the Government has officially announced that Mobile and fixed line broadband providers in the United Kingdom will soon be forced into the mandatory blocking of all “adult” websites; specifically those that fail to offer an adequate method of age-verification for their visitors. The new approach, which was first hinted at last month after Claire Perry MP tabled several directly related amendments (here), will be officially introduced as part of a change to the forthcoming Digital Economy Bill 2016-17.

Two-thirds of the world's internet users live under regimes of government censorship, according to a report released today. The report from Freedom House, a pro-democracy think tank, finds that internet freedom across the globe declined for a sixth consecutive year in 2016, as governments cracked down on social media services and messaging apps. The findings are based on an analysis of web freedom in 65 countries, covering 88 percent of the world's online population. Freedom House ranked China as the worst abuser of internet freedom for the second consecutive year, followed by Syria and Iran.

Apps like WhatsApp and Telegram are the latest to face crackdowns, a new report says. Two-thirds of Internet users live in countries that censor criticism of the government, military or rulers. By Alina Selyukh.

The most comprehensive account to date of the disappearance of five Hong Kong booksellers in late 2015. By Pen America.

The main themes and messages of Fahrenheit 451 — seen through the lens of author Ray Bradbury’s preferred interpretation. By Gautham Shenoy.

During this year’s cycle, Project Censored reviewed 235 Validated Independent News stories (VINs) representing the collective efforts of 221 college students and 33 professors from 18 college and university campuses that participate in our affiliate program.

Pornhub and YouPorn, the biggest adult websites in the world, have been blocked in Russia. And things have become very odd. The site has been blocked by the Russian state watchdog Roskomnadzor, which is known in English as the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media. Among other things, that agency is in charge of monitoring the internet and blocking sites that the government doesn’t want to be used.

In the 1980s, The Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), an organization co-founded by Tipper Gore and the wives of several other Washington power brokers, launched a political campaign against pop music, hoping to put warning labels on records that promoted Sex, Violence, Drug and Alcohol Use.

I called out PBS for censoring Jill Stein. And now I have been censored by Facebook. The video (still on Youtube) reveals PBS selectively editing out nearly two-thirds of Jill’s response to the last interview question. The Facebook video got more than 5k shares and 100k views and in less than 24 hrs. And then all of a sudden, this afternoon, it disappeared. Facebook has hidden ALL and ANY video I upload on my Matt Orfalea page and I have not gotten a single notification from Facebook about it.

Reddit, a website that claims to be ‘the front page of internet’, is officially dead. The soon to be link graveyard has continued to destroy itself by censoring information by the way of bot fraud, shadow bans, political payoffs, and comment suppression. With 99% of Sundays news focusing on the DNC disaster, Debbie Wasserman Schultz , The Clinton Cash documentary, and the WikiLeaks dump, I would think the front page of Reddit, a reader based news aggregate, would be full of stories about these important events. Well, think again…

Artist Dennis Cooper reports that Google shut down his website, without explanation, erasing 12 years of work.