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Aired: Friday, January 20, 2006 10-11AM ET
By host Tom Ashbrook:
You remember the wide open promise of the World Wide Web, right? This was to be the untrammeled, free range domain of digital liberation, a new world of freedom. Well, yes and no.
You can search for whatever you like, but type in "democracy" in China's blogosphere, or "human rights" or "women" in Iran, and you're getting nothing. E-mail trails are sending dissidents to jail. Whole realms of thought are being filtered right off the web -- and American companies are helping.
Now, the US government has subpoenaed search records by the millions. And the National Security Agency is reading e-mail -- maybe yours.
Hear about Big Brother, American companies, and the web.
| · | Timothy Wu, Professor at Columbia Law School | | · | Ronald Deibert, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto | | · | Julien Pain, Reporters Without Borders | | · | Declan McCullagh, Chief Political Correspondent for CNET News.com |
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Bush's Policy on Global Warming |
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The Bush administration is taking more heat on global warming. This time, the critics are former EPA administrators.
Six former heads of the agency --five Republicans and one Democrat-- sounded off yesterday at an event to mark the agency's 35th anniversary. They didn't mince words.
Russell Train, EPA chief under Presidents Nixon and Ford, called the current global warming policies "dishonest' and "self-destructive."
| · | Russell Train served as EPA administrator in the Nixon and Ford Administrations and is Chairman Emeritus of the World Wildlife Fund. |
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