The infamous hacktivist group is making one threat after another. After recently they threatened Congress that if they pass SOPA they'll be wiped off the internet, now they want to go after the United States government for trying to censor the internet.
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21 November 2011
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Iranian internauts rejoiced yesterday after realizing that the internet filter set up by authorities was lifted and they could benefit from the wonders of social media. Unfortunately for them and for the freedom of the internet, the miracle lasted only for about an hour, after which everything went back to normal.
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11 October 2011
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A security hole in the internet content filtering system deployed by the Syrian authorities allowed Telecomix hacker group to get in the possession of a large quantity of logs recorded by the BlueCoat devices.
Even though the US contractor Blue Coat Systems denies having any business in Syria, many voices accuse t... |
6 October 2011
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The Saudi Arabian government has decided to block access to the main Amnesty International website after the human rights watchdog criticized a proposed anti-terror law that would limit people's ability to protest peacefully."A draft Saudi Arabian anti-terrorism law obtained by Amnesty International would allow ... |
26 July 2011
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The official website of the Tunisian government was defaced by members of Anonymous in sign of protest to on-going Internet censorship in the country.People trying to access the website earlier today were greeted by an image of the Anonymous Guy Fawkes mask and an announcement that read "this domain has been seized i... |
27 June 2011
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A Thai government official acknowledged earlier this week that the country's website blacklisting approach is inefficient and should be dropped.Thongchai Sangsiri, director of computer forensics with the Thai Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT) spoke about the issue at the Asia-Pacific Te... |
18 November 2010
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The Foreign Ministers of twenty states will meet in Paris in October and then later this year in the Netherlands to agree on common measures that would strengthen freedom of expression on the Internet. These conferences have been decided during a meeting in Paris held last week.A meeting on the Internet and freedom o... |
12 July 2010
13:27 GMT |
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Australia's Internet censorship plans are starting to generate some well-deserved backlash and the issue is getting more and more attention as the government moves further with the goal of blocking anyone in Australia from accessing content it, arbitrarily or not, deems inappropriate.Last week, several governme... |
15 February 2010
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The government in Beijing has indefinitely delayed its order that required all computers sold in China after July 1st to have a particular content-filtering application installed by default. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced this decision only one day before the order was to come into effe... |
2 July 2009
04:14 GMT |
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Just a couple of weeks after Sweden's Pirate Party managed to secure at least one seat in the European Parliament, its German counterpart, PiratenPartei, has also succeeded in gaining one in its country's government. Jörg Tauss, a German politician, has left the Social Democrats Party (SPD) and joined ... |
22 June 2009
03:56 GMT |
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A hacker, identified as Stryde Hax, while following leads indicating that a couple female Chinese gymnasts participating in the 2008 Beijing Olympics are underage, managed to stumble upon some webpages supporting such scenarios. Thus, he discovered certain inadvertences that could convince even the most skeptical of ... |
21 August 2008
04:24 GMT |
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