rhetoricat » civil rights http://www.catshuler.com/blog thoughts of a feminist rhetorician Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:23:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Verizon Has Blocked Access To 4chan http://www.catshuler.com/blog/2010/02/10/verizon-has-blocked-access-to-4chan/ http://www.catshuler.com/blog/2010/02/10/verizon-has-blocked-access-to-4chan/#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:16:27 +0000 Cat http://www.catshuler.com/blog/?p=165 The notoriously awful 4chan, home of Anonymous, has been blocked by Verizon. (From what I understand this is only on their wireless network, but I’m not entirely sure.) Regardless, as much as I truly hate them and their misogynistic tenets and peculiar ideas about what constitutes “lulz.,” I can’t condone any type of censorship. The following article on Gizmodo provides more information.

Verizon Has Blocked Access To 4chan, But What Are They Gonna Do About It? – Verizon 4chan – Gizmodo.

To read more about Anonymous and their oh-so-unimpressive exploits, check out my paper, “Healing as (We)blog in a ‘Show Tits’  or ‘GTFO’ World”. (Not my best work, but it gives a general overview.) You might also want to check out the digital version of my poster session–“A Rape Culture in Cyberspace”.

]]> http://www.catshuler.com/blog/2010/02/10/verizon-has-blocked-access-to-4chan/feed/ 0 Social media and free speech in the classroom http://www.catshuler.com/blog/2010/01/23/social-media-and-free-speech-in-the-classroom/ http://www.catshuler.com/blog/2010/01/23/social-media-and-free-speech-in-the-classroom/#comments Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:29:50 +0000 Cat http://www.catshuler.com/blog/?p=106 While researching the use of Facebook in the classroom (I’m trying to find a way to create a version of my profile that allows me to be friends with my students while limiting the information that they can see and allowing them to limit the information that I can see. Not finding a way without creating an entirely new profile) I ran across an article about clear violations of free speech with regards to students using social media. Am I talking about posting status updates in the classroom? The use of disruptive technologies? Nope. I’m talking about a coach who required a student to provide said coach with her Facebook account information (including password), reading her private messages, and then penalizing her for the use of inappropriate language in her messages. Wow, I guess if you’re under eighteen freedom of speech isn’t allowed, even in the private sphere. Read about it at Citizen Media Law Project.

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