Category «Censorship»

Nursing Excluded as ‘Professional’ Degree By Department of Education

Nurse.org – The U.S. Department of Education has officially excluded nursing in its recently revamped definition of “professional degree” programs. This change occurs as part of the implementation of President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA) and has nursing organizations nationwide raising alarms. Graduate nursing students will lose access to higher federal loan limits previously …

Subjects: Censorship, Congress, Economy, Education, Financial System, Government Documents, Legislation

How Cops Are Using Flock Safety’s ALPR Network to Surveil Protesters and Activists

EFF: “It’s no secret that 2025 has given Americans plenty to protest about. But as news cameras showed protesters filling streets of cities across the country, law enforcement officers—including U.S. Border Patrol agents—were quietly watching those same streets through different lenses: Flock Safety automated license plate readers (ALPRs) that tracked every passing car.  Through an …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, E-Records, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media

The Librarians – documentary film on censorship

Via Kottke –  The Librarians – As part of the fascist war on “woke”, tens of thousands of books have been pulled from the shelves of libraries around the country over the past few years. On the front line are the nation’s librarians, “first responders in the fight for democracy and our First Amendment rights”. The Librarians …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Education, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries, Privacy

Your Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship

ACLU: “Who controls what you can do on your mobile phone? What happens when your device can only run what the government decides is OK? We are dangerously close to this kind of totalitarian control, thanks to a combination of government overreach and technocratic infrastructure choices. Most Americans have a smartphone, and the average American …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Digital Rights, E-Records, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

Epstein Files Bill Is On Its Way To Trump’s Desk

CBS News – Epstein files bill will head to Trump’s desk after approval by House and Senate – What to know about the Epstein files bill: The Senate approved a House-passed bill that would require the Justice Department to release files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, effectively sending it to President Trump’s desk …

Subjects: Censorship, Congress, E-Mail, E-Records, Financial System, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

Trump administration announces dismantling of parts of the Education Dept

Washington Post via MSN: The Education Department said Tuesday that it will move several of its offices to other federal departments, a unilateral effort aimed at dismantling an agency created by Congress to ensure equal access to educational opportunity but long derided by conservatives as ineffective. The department has signed interagency agreements to outsource six …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Congress, Education, Free Speech, Government Documents, Legal Research

How Jeffrey Epstein used SEO to bury news about his crimes

The Verge: “Documents released by the House Oversight Committee shed light on Epstein’s day-to-day, largely via email — including his preoccupation with his Google presence…” See also The Epstein Scandal Is Now a Chronic Disease of the Trump Presidency See also via beSpacific – Epstein’s Inbox – A trove of emails reveals Ghislaine Maxwell’s Secrets …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Congress, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

The Government Lawyers Database

The Government Lawyers Database [GLOW] is a publicly accessible record of the legal professionals who are or were involved in representing or supporting the legal positions of the US Executive Branch. The database is a work-in-progress. It’s the first-ever public record of U.S. Executive Branch attorneys’ conduct. The core problem: Government lawyers have a fundamental …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are being saved

CNN via MSN: “Just blocks from the Presidio of San Francisco, the national park at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, stands a gleaming white building, its façade adorned with eight striking gothic columns. But what was once the home of a Christian Scientist church, is now the holy grail of Internet history — …

Subjects: AI, Censorship, E-Records, Freedom of Information, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries, Search Engines

“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops

ProPublica: “When President Donald Trump told reporters on Sept. 5 he’d started looking at sending the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, he said it was because of something he saw on television. He said the city was being destroyed by paid agitators. “What they’ve done to that place, it’s like living in hell,” he said, …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Defense, E-Records, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

New Comprehensive Guide to Help Newsrooms Protect Journalists from Online Abuse

PEN America: “In response to the alarming rise of abuse and threats targeting journalists, PEN America and the Coalition Against Online Violence have released a groundbreaking guide, Best Practices for News Organizations: How to Protect and Support Journalists Harassed Online, to empower industry leaders to protect their people amidst an escalating crackdown on the free …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Education, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media

OSINTCon November Videos

@osintambition held a free online #osint conference with dozens of speakers and thousands of participants. If you missed anything, you can watch videos of the talks in this playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist From Program One “Investigators can’t afford to spend endless hours chasing a single target. Classic OSINT skills are essential, but they eventually hit limits of …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media