Is the censorship of art a New York State Democratic Party value? Let's ask Dan O'Hara, newly appointed director of the New York State Fair.
While it is probably not the first time that artwork has been yanked from the annual New York State Fair Photography Exhibition for annoying someone, it's probably the first time that a piece of artwork has been yanked during the Fair for non-obscene content.
Remember my post about Net Neutrality and the Brodsky Bill?
Net Neutrality is the realization of the First Amendment, except on the digital plane. Remember, Free Speech is government regulation. Imagine the ridiculousness of claiming that we don't need the Bill of Rights, because "the market will sort it out". Same deal with Net Neutrality.
In case the term Net Neutrality confuses you, Public Knowledge has crafted a quick three minute clip explaining the idea in an elegant and clean manner.
Really, watch it. It'll only take less than three minutes, and explains the whole deal very well.
While we may be big in Japan, we are, much like the Albany Times Union, apparently banned in China. After reading about how the TU somehow earned the distinction of being banned by the Chinese internet cops, I decided to enter our URL in to the Great Firewall of China site to see if they had it in for the albany project as well. Sure enough:
Honestly I'm not sure why they would block us. Even though I absolutely loathe the Chinese regime, it's not like I write about it here. I'm curious to know what caught their eye.
Then again:
According to their stats, more than 155,000 sites have been tested. I ran a few more through it and found that the state Senate and Assembly are both blocked, as are Hillary Clinton's and Eliot Spitzer's campaign sites. Rudy Giuliani's isn't blocked.
To recap: The Chinese government thinks that this site as well as the sites of the Governor and our junior Senator are bad, bad, bad, but Rudy is A-OK.
