The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a US-based civil rights organisation set-up by Mitch Kapor and John Perry Barlow, to protect online rights, has defended the right of bloggers to be considered "press", and to stop prior restraint laws gagging some media from linking to information held by Eli...

THREE events over the last few weeks have raised the ante on the issue of violence on air. First, there was the revelations of police incompetance in the unsolved slaying of Rischard Ganschewitz, then the racially motivated blow-up of good neighbourliness in Milnerton, followed by the orientally...

HELP free Shequanda and other Afro teenagers languishing in American jails by listening to Free Speech Radio Network http://www.fsrn.org/. In a news insert dated 30-03-2007 we heard how Shequanda got into an altercation with a "hall-monitor" at her school, and found her way into the Texas adminis...

There you have it. Hershall Gibbs is the Antichrist. After setting an international cricketing record for 666 666, Gibbs is bowled out last night, after 6, resulting in South Africa's spectacular defeat at St Kitts. This after Hansie admitted to praying to the Devil,"The Devil made him do it" and...

THE Mail & Guardian, hosts of this blog, have presumably reinstated it after pieces deemed to be offensive were deleted. The online censorship occured after a military and defence analyst who cannot be named, made a formal complaint. The person, whose name is not publishable, after a ruling by th...

Banned by Media24 and Independent because of his views, and kicked off the M&G blogmark (jointly owned by a Media24 subsidiary) in December, David Robert Lewis rails against the act of mediation, and invites you to discuss this topic on the MediAlternatives mailing list, which unlike the M&G blog...