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Some ideas aren't worth spreading.

Follow-up of the CBC Radio Canada interview with Antonio Casilli, about pro-ana blogs Web censorship.

International research team maps online ED social networks, discovers ban on pro-ana is bad news - but only for public health decision makers.

Apparently The Pirate Bay is experimenting with airborne Web hosting, launching small drones carrying internet mid-air servers to escape land-based censorship...

The French documentary film The Wall (Le mur), which takes issue with psychoanalytic views on autism, has caused some uproar over the past few months. France is one of the last remaining bulwarks of psychoanalysis, the theory and therapy devised by Sigmund Freud.

Video de l'intervention d'Evgeny Morozov "Marriage From Hell: On the Secret Love Affair Between Dictators and Western Technology Companies", conférence d'introduction au colloque 28C3, Chaos Computer Club, 27 déc 2011, Berlin.

Following the 2011 wave of political unrest, the formation of a consensus around Internet censorship is underway.The present paper adopts a social simulation approach to show that the decision to regulate or restrict social media in situations of civil unrest results in higher levels of violence.

Blocking social networks and censoring the Internet would end up in even more violence, social scientists warn.

Washington think tank TechFreedom book about technology policy, privacy, censorship, Internet governance, e-democracy, netpolitics, free speech and impact on culture & society.

It's fashionable to hold up the Internet as the road to democracy and liberty in countries like Iran, but it can also be a very effective tool for quashing freedom. Evgeny Morozov on the myth of the techno-utopia.