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Stories about: Internet censorship

China Delays Order to Deploy Buggy Censorware 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 Pirate Party Gains Parliament Seat in Germany 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 Chinese Authorities Delete Pages Which Prove Gymnasts' Real Age 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