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Tag: Censorship
The Question Of Who Controls The Future Of The Internet Is Still Unanswered
The United Nations General Assembly will meet in New York at the end of this year to continue the debate on who should control the Internet. A prelude to that conference took place this week […]
Verizon Goes Too Far With Censorship Of Customer Emails
Phone company Verizon has started censoring emails that are sent by customers using its Verizon FiOS service. Any email that contains a hyperlink is determined to be spam, even if the link is relevant. The […]
Google Makes Its First Chinese Investment Since It Pulled Out Of The Country In 2010
One of Google’s most notable moves occurred when it pulled most of its business out of China in 2010 over censorship issues. Since then, it mostly has remained out of the country – until now […]
Thailand Is Eyeing Its Own ‘Great Firewall’ To Censor The Internet
The government of Thailand is considering the plan of installing a single internet gateway for their country, and citizens are responding by attacking government websites. An internet gateway is the access point for a computer […]
China Will Possibly Unblock Facebook
China might finally allow Facebook to enter its country. Facebook has long been blocked in the country, but many people believe that this may change in the near future, as Chinese president Xi Jinping allowed […]
United Nations Wishes To Censor World-Wide Internet
Maybe not intentionally, but the United Nations has taken sides in an ever-growing debate about the future of the Internet and the possible censorship of the world wide web. In a report released by the […]
Google Will Let China Censor Its App Store In Order To Re-Enter The Lucrative Mainland Market
Google is making plans for a comeback presence in China with a version of Google Play that will comply with all Chinese censorship requirements in order to do so. The company famously left China in […]
Twitter Shuts Down Political Tweet Archives In Bizarre Policy Change
Twitter, struggling financially amid a lagging stock price, has decided that removing a key source of public information its service provides is in its best interests. The strange decision means it has effectively closed a […]
The FCC Just Affirmed The Right To ‘Bring Your Own’ Internet By Fining Wi-Fi Blocker $750,000
A company which had been blocking Wi-Fi access at convention centers in various parts of the United States, has agreed to pay the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Enforcement Bureau $750,000 in an out-of-court settlement. Smart […]
Chinese Police Arrest Over 15,000 People In Massive Internet Censorship Operation
Chinese police have apprehended over 15,000 suspects for offenses that “jeopardized Internet security,” as part of the government’s efforts to tighten internet security. Since he became the president of the People’s Republic of China in […]
Chinese Censors Close 50 Websites For Talking About The Tianjin Explosion
The Cyberspace Administration of China has shuttered 50 websites for spreading “rumors” on the number of deaths and casualties in the Tianjin explosions. According to Xinhua, a state news outlet, the number of confirmed deaths […]
Chinese Government Caught Censoring Nearly 5 Per Cent Of All Social Media Posts
In China’s growing online community, comments on corrupt administration officials, ‘unwarranted’ mention of Chinese politics and even anti administration rumors are strictly prohibited. So much do the Chinese rulers wish to suppress such information that […]
World’s Digital Watchdog Accuses Facebook of Selective Censorship
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) a “leading non-profit Organization defending civil liberties in the digital world” has found that Facebook differentiates from country to country in the number of “content restrictions” it has fulfilled in […]
Facebook Ignores History, Bans Adult Content On 3D Headset
Facebook is known to take what it perceives to be the moral high road when it comes to its social networking platform. It doesn’t think people should see mothers breast feeding and doesn’t believe people […]
Russia Latest Large Country To Force Google, Facebook To Forget About You
Russia is the latest country to recognize the dangers posed by big tech companies who collect data and store it indefinitely. The communist country is pushing a new “right to be forgotten” law (RTBF) modeled […]
EU To Fight Insane British Plan To Censor The Internet
British PM David Cameron fancies himself just the man to “clean up the internet”. Such rhetoric, which pulls on parental heartstrings, seems to have worked for his last election campaign where he suggested that access […]
Russia And China, Fearing Arab Spring, Sign Massive Censorship Agreement
Russia and China have signed a pact promising on paper to play nicely and not hack each other. The move is a clear attempt to polarize the world against the two communist dictatorships yet in […]
China Fingered In Massive Cyber Attack On U.S. Websites
The United States will press China to comprehensively investigate reports that Chinese attackers, probably state sponsored, were behind a massive cyber attack against prominent U.S. websites. State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke said the U.S. is […]
Tehran Replaces Anti-American Billboards With Fine Works Of Art
Tehran’s billboards are usually filled with portraits of martyrs from the country’s long line of wars, quotes from religious icons and even the occasional poster condemning American policies and political icons. But the Iranian capital […]
UN Rules Internet Censorship, Kill Switches Violate Human Rights
In a landmark UN authored paper, a group of leading experts have said that forcing the shutdown of internet access is impermissible under international human rights law — even during times of war and conflict. […]