Global Voices Advocacy » USA http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org Defending Free Speech Online Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:58:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en ThinkProgress blog banned from the U.S. military network in Baghdad http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/09/01/thinkprogress-blog-banned-from-the-us-military-network-in-baghdad/ http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/09/01/thinkprogress-blog-banned-from-the-us-military-network-in-baghdad/#comments Sat, 01 Sep 2007 11:51:41 +0000 Sami Ben Gharbia http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/09/01/thinkprogress-blog-banned-from-the-us-military-network-in-baghdad/ ThinkProgress Ban

Error message received by US soldier when trying to access ThinkProgress blog from U.S. military network in Baghdad (Photo credit: the American Progress Action Fund)

The liberal ThinkProgress blog has been banned from the U.S. military network in Baghdad. “The ban began sometime shortly after Aug. 22, when Ret. Maj. Gen. John Batiste was our guest blogger on ThinkProgress. He posted an op-ed that was strongly critical of the President’s policies and advocated a “responsible and deliberate redeployment from Iraq.” ThinkProgress said.

]]> http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/09/01/thinkprogress-blog-banned-from-the-us-military-network-in-baghdad/feed/ Google shareholders reject anti-censorship proposal http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/05/11/google-shareholders-reject-anti-censorship-proposal/ http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/05/11/google-shareholders-reject-anti-censorship-proposal/#comments Fri, 11 May 2007 12:32:14 +0000 Sami Ben Gharbia http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/05/11/google-shareholders-reject-anti-censorship-proposal/ Jeremy Gordon, CEO of China Business Services, which help companies enter the Chinese market, blogged today on the China Business Blog about the interview he had with BBC’s 5 Live radio about the controversial Google’s censorship policy in China.

This came after the majority of Google shareholders voted against the anti-censorship proposal that requires the Google’s management to stop censoring its search results in repressive countries.

You can listen -and download- to the interview on BBC’s 5 Live radio [the Friday 11th May, and it will be available for a week beginning today]

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