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Episode 65: Censorship while you sleep Released: November 20, 2008

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Participants: Fuzheado, Witty Lama and Tawker (after a fashion...).

Topics

• "When does Wikipedia call the election"
• Wikipedia as a mainstream election news source
  • Site had problems Nov 4th
  • Statistics on Obama and McCain
  • Noam Cohen talks about it.
  • Two featured articles at same time, stats, quick updates for US election.
• UNU survey criticized for length and format (mailing lists)
• No Clean Feed interview re. Australian internet censorship No Clean Feed.com
• GNU FDL 1.3 released - allowing merging to cc-by-sa. . Lessig blogs about it
• Size of the fundraising banner / state of the fundraiser
• audio PSA's for the fundraiser
• lots of work redesigning the fundraiser tech
• Moldovan complaint
• Search Engine improved
• Abuse Filter extension

• Podcaster's Picks:
  • List of land borders by date of establishment
  • Ninety-Ninety Rule

Preceded by Episode 64: Annual Report

Episode 65

Succeeded by Episode 66: Searching high and low