Facebook, Twitter and others have undertaken demented and pernicious censorship campaigns. Depending upon your politics and preferences, some of their rationales may or may not be compelling to you.
All censorship solutions fail to honor the fundamental right of all users to choose to listen/view or not, whatever content they choose. Instead, these censors seek to impose their choices on everyone.
I’m indifferent to the motivations of censors, some of which I would find personally compelling. The fact remains that users and only users should exercise the right of choice over the content they consume. I would not interfere with that right, even to further my own views on appropriate content.
Having said all that, you no doubt have noticed that your freedom to consume the content of your choice are being rapidly curtailed by the aforementioned censors and others.
One practical defense against these censorious vermin is to explode the flow of content. Producing a condition I call “censor overflow.”
Radio.Garden (which I posted on yesterday) is one source of new content.
Here are some others:
Australian Live Radio Some 268 “proper” radio stations (no internet only) from Australia.
InternetRadio As of today, 39,539 internet radio stations. Even more intriguing is the capability to create your own radio station. Servers are in London and the US so you will need to self-censor or find concealment for your station if you want to be edgy.
Listenlive.edu Over 4000 “proper” radio stations from across Europe.
Live-Radio.net Another “proper” radio station listing but this time with worldwide coverage.
RadioGuide.fm A focus on online radio stations from around the world, now numbering more than 3000 stations.
Radio Station World A wider worldwide listing which expressly includes:
RadioStationWorld is an informational directory dealing with the radio broadcasters worldwide. We depend on many people around the world to help us keep the RadioStationWorld listings up to date. (And much thanks to those that take some time to help keep information up-to-date!) Some of the features you will find on our site include listings of local radio stations on the web, radio station that offer streaming webcast services, and in depth listings of local radio broadcast stations including digital radio throughout North America. Also featured are national and regional broadcast networks, shortwave radio, satellite radio, hospital radio, cable radio, closed circuit/campus radio and radio service providers, as well as a growing list of links to sites that deal with the radio broadcasting industry. Enjoy RadioStationWorld, we hope you find this site useful to whatever your needs are, but remember, we do depend on people like yourself to help update in an ever changing broadcast industry. [Correction: The shortwave radio broadcast listing ahs been withdrawn and the provided link points to a dead resource.]
TuneIn enables people to discover, follow and listen to what’s most important to them — from sports, to news, to music, to talk. TuneIn provides listeners access to over 100,000 real radio stations and more than four million podcasts streaming from every continent.(emphasis in original)
For the sake of completeness, avoid the List of Internet radio stations at Wikipedia. It is too outdated to be anything other than a waste of time.
Contribute content, writing, sound, music, videos, graphics, images, anything that can bring us closer to a state of censor overload!
No promises that censors will tire and go away, after all, censors have been censoring since Plato’s Republic.
But, we have more opportunities to bury censors in a tidal wave of content.
Which will be almost as enjoyable as the content in which we bury them.