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Censorship

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2012

    Digital Civil Rights Group Says Yelp Isn't Responsible for Bad Reviews

    The San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation is urging a federal appeals court to block an attempt by disgruntled businesses" to hold online forums, including Yelp, responsible for customer's reviews. In a friend-of-the-court brief filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2012

    SOPA Might Be Bad Policy, but It's Not Censorship

    ​If you're reading this, chances are that you regularly consume media online. And if you regularly consume media online, you're almost certainly seeing and reading more today than you know what to do with about the federal Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA). ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 21, 2011

    Not Just Any Old Amendment

    ​If you're reading this, chances are that you regularly consume media online. And if you regularly consume media online, you're almost certainly seeing and reading more today than you know what to do with about the federal Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA). ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 5, 2009

    The Barb

    ​If you're reading this, chances are that you regularly consume media online. And if you regularly consume media online, you're almost certainly seeing and reading more today than you know what to do with about the federal Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA). ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2009

    Green Day to Wal-Mart: Fuck Censorship

      Moral Crusaders? Green DayLooks like everyone who called Green Day sell-outs owes the band an apology. After releasing 21st Century Breakdown, their most ambitious album ever, the band followed up by doing the most punk thing they've ever done: refuse to sell a clean ve ... More >>

  • News

    January 21, 2009

    Rants and Graves

    Police take seriously a joke post on Craigslist urging a mass suicide.

  • Calendar

    August 6, 2008

    Some People Just Won't Shut Up

    Police take seriously a joke post on Craigslist urging a mass suicide.

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2008

    Someone SAVE us from the Offensive Cartoons! Whoa, Wait a Minute

    Police take seriously a joke post on Craigslist urging a mass suicide.

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2008

    Sheryl Crow Reschedules Bay Area Performance

    Police take seriously a joke post on Craigslist urging a mass suicide.

  • News

    May 14, 2008

    Animal Welfare Commission Wants to Outlaw Cruel Art

    Police take seriously a joke post on Craigslist urging a mass suicide.

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2008

    Google: Is Censorship "Evil" or Just "Evil-ish?"

    Police take seriously a joke post on Craigslist urging a mass suicide.

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2008

    Food Critics Free To Write Scathing Reviews, Court Rules

    Police take seriously a joke post on Craigslist urging a mass suicide.

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2008

    Swiss Bank Tells Wikileaks: "Just Kidding!"

    Police take seriously a joke post on Craigslist urging a mass suicide.

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2008

    Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Benefit At 111 Minna

    Police take seriously a joke post on Craigslist urging a mass suicide.

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2008

    BetterKnowanSFBlog: The Greatest Hits

    Police take seriously a joke post on Craigslist urging a mass suicide.

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2007

    WordPress Stands for Open Source, Morals, Democracy: BetterKnowanSFBlog

    Police take seriously a joke post on Craigslist urging a mass suicide.

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2007

    Exotic Erotic Ball Couches Tits as Freedom: Get Real! ... about Freedom (not Tits; fake Tits are fine)

    Police take seriously a joke post on Craigslist urging a mass suicide.

  • News

    September 5, 2007

    Big BART Brother

    The transit system's bosses know when you're sleeping, know if you're awake ... or singing Christmas carols

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2007

    Josh Wolf goes corporate

    The transit system's bosses know when you're sleeping, know if you're awake ... or singing Christmas carols

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2007

    Why is Jello Biafra San Francisco's Sacred Cow?

    The transit system's bosses know when you're sleeping, know if you're awake ... or singing Christmas carols

  • Culture

    August 2, 2006

    More Play Than Porn

    Looking for the love story beneath the kink in The Censor

  • News

    August 2, 2006

    Stick 'Em Up

    Looking for the love story beneath the kink in The Censor

  • News

    May 18, 2005

    The Storm of the Teeth

    The ever-overreaching Human Rights Commission launches an official investigation of ... a barroom display of a few Indian teeth

  • News

    July 21, 2004

    Censorship for Dummies

    John Wiley & Sons New Jersey, 2004

  • News

    July 7, 2004

    Free the Science!

    A UCSF professor organizes a scientific boycott to protest apparent censorship of a study that suggests a link between working at IBM and dying of cancer

  • News

    February 18, 2004

    Profiles in Gumption

    Thanks to SFMOMA, Mattel wasn't able to squash a Utah artist who puts Barbie dolls in blenders

  • News

    January 22, 2003

    All the News That Fits

    Our favorite hometown daily paper writes up a Berkeley controversy over an anarchist's quotes — but drops the quotes

  • News

    September 26, 2001

    Crushing a Contrarian

    The "patriotic" squelching of Bill Maher is a scary sign of an emerging groupthink

  • News

    May 30, 2001

    Letters to the Editor

    The Bum's Rush; A "Hot" Topic; Blowing Smoke; Bikes vs. Cars; Art and Censorship

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 23, 2001

    Best New Locally Produced Documentary

    Scouts' Honor by Tom Shepard

  • News

    April 25, 2001

    Cats and Dogs

    A video project with canine penetration and feline skinning brings on self-censorship at the S.F. Art Institute

  • News

    May 17, 2000

    Babes in Toyland

    Two hackers piss off Mattel and spawn an Internet legal imbroglio

  • Culture

    March 1, 2000

    Church and State

    Two hackers piss off Mattel and spawn an Internet legal imbroglio

  • Calendar

    January 26, 2000

    Muckraking Hero

    George Seldes

  • News

    June 16, 1999

    Make Art, Not War

    Attorney helps artists fight restrictions on street sales

  • Calendar

    March 3, 1999

    Cothran

    Attorney helps artists fight restrictions on street sales

  • Calendar

    December 23, 1998

    Mecklin

    Attorney helps artists fight restrictions on street sales

  • Music

    December 16, 1998

    Banarama

    Attorney helps artists fight restrictions on street sales

  • Calendar

    January 28, 1998

    REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

    Attorney helps artists fight restrictions on street sales

  • Calendar

    August 13, 1997

    Unspun

    Attorney helps artists fight restrictions on street sales

  • Calendar

    June 4, 1997

    The Grid

    Attorney helps artists fight restrictions on street sales

  • News

    April 24, 1996

    Letters

    Attorney helps artists fight restrictions on street sales

  • News

    February 28, 1996

    Letters

    Attorney helps artists fight restrictions on street sales

  • News

    December 20, 1995

    Picture This

    A photography exhibit at the S.F. Art Institute sparks a censorship debate

  • News

    October 25, 1995

    Dog Bites

    A photography exhibit at the S.F. Art Institute sparks a censorship debate

  • Music

    August 23, 1995

    Samples

    A photography exhibit at the S.F. Art Institute sparks a censorship debate

  • News

    April 5, 1995

    Ragging Factsheet 5

    The zine of zines comes under attack

  • Film

    March 29, 1995

    Reel World

    The zine of zines comes under attack

  • News

    March 15, 1995

    Dog Bites

    The zine of zines comes under attack

  • News

    March 15, 1995

    Cyperpornocopia

    Milpitas residents Carleen and Robert Thomas found a lucrative way to sell the hardest of hardcorepornography to smut fans all over the country: by computer bulletin board. Then their little Silicon Valley startup attracted the interest of a U.S. Postal S

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