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I am a book trafficker

The Librotraficante Caravan will travel from Houston, Texas on March 12th to Tucson, Arizona, carrying a payload of contraband books, creating networks of underground libraries and leaving community resources in its wake. One of many responses to Arizona’s unconstitutional laws prohibiting Mexican-American Studies, the Librotraficante Caravan has captured the imagination and hearts of activists, writers, educators, and students from all walks of life who want to preserve freedom of speech.

PayPal gets religion on ‘obscene’ e-books, tells sellers to ban content
PayPal has sparked a furor in the publishing world by asking some e-book distributors to ban books that contain “obscene” themes including rape, bestiality or incest.

PayPal sent an email on Feb 18 to Mark Coker, founder of e-book publisher and distributor Smashwords, saying it would “limit” the company’s PayPal account unless Smashwords removed from its website e-books “containing themes of rape, incest, beastiality and underage subjects.”

This week's episode is another quick one that talks about the seemingly ephemeral nature of electronic communications as of late.

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Pakistan's plan for the "coldblooded murder of the Internet"

We take a look at the Pakistan government's plan to buy censorship hardware capable of blocking up to 50 million websites today... and filtering citizen e-mail tomorrow.

SOPA's author wants everything you do online logged and made available without a warrant « Boing Boing

Pentagon suffers Internet access outage | Reuters

Instapundit » Blog Archive » SHUT UP, PLEBES: FCC Inquires Into Its Own Authority To Regulate Communication Service Shutdown...

FCC Inquires Into Its Own Authority To Regulate Communication Service Shutdowns - Slashdot

Anonymous Declares War – Glenn Beck

And something somewhat unrelated served up by Archive.org:

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"In a country devastated by decades of war, Afghan officials believe they have found a way to teach the country's history without inflaming old animosities between Afghanistan's long-warring ethnic and political groups. The answer, they say, is to omit the past four decades from the history books."

Forwarded from the Middle East Librarian's Association (MELA). Read more about it at: http://www.rferl.org/content/new_afghan_textbooks_sidestep_history/24490203.html