Tag: censorship

Learning About Attica No Longer Banned in New York Prisons

By Erik Loomis

In General

On August 5, 2022

The restriction on reading material in prisons is one of so many ways the criminal injustice system needs to change. After a long fight, New York prisoners can now actually read about the Attica prison uprising. New York authorities have lifted a ban that had stopped state prison inmates from reading a book about the […]

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How Much Sex is Acceptable for Google?

By Erik Loomis

On May 22, 2015

Above: Google approved Gilded Age courting chair. So evidently images from Gilded Age medical journals of what are today known as vibrators are too risque for Google, so horrible that LGM is th

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Banning Howard Zinn

By Erik Loomis

On July 17, 2013

I certainly have my critique of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States as a good history book, but it’s power and importance can’t be denied. And that’s wh

The Extinction of Megaupload

By Erik Loomis

In General

On January 31, 2012

Although SOPA and PIPA were defeated for now, the corporate-government attack on file sharing continues unabated. Most significantly was the government shutdown of Megaupload a couple of weeks ago. Regardless of an overarching bill ending filesharing, the media companies are using their full power to end the practice. One can make a copyright argument that […]

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MPAA Thinks of the Children

By davenoon

On December 20, 2007

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not exactly hip to the latest in stoner film culture, but would someone please tell me I’m the last person to actually hear about this? Maybe I mi