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Blogger is making a move very similar to Twitter, allowing for the removal of content on a country-by country basis, to be able to conform to law requirements in certain places but still offer as much content as possible to as many people as possible.
The move comes too fast after Twitter's for it to have serve... |
1 February 2012
09:41 GMT |
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Last week, Twitter announced that it now had the ability to censor tweets on a country by country basis. Many people took this to mean that Twitter will now start censoring tweets whereas it wasn't censoring them before.
That wasn't true of course, and Twitter clarified the situation, but that didn't ... |
30 January 2012
09:11 GMT |
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Twitter's announcement that it was now able to censor tweets on a country by country basis raised a lot of eyebrows. Some people were even concerned that Twitter was turning to the dark side after standing up for its users a number of times. But that wasn't true, quite the opposite. Twitter could be forced,... |
29 January 2012
17:41 GMT |
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Twitter has now announced that it is able to censor tweets and content on a per-country basis. While that may sound menacing, it's actually an improvement and gives Twitter the ability to best serve its users across the globe.
Various countries have various laws, even the ones most would consider democracies th... |
27 January 2012
10:51 GMT |
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The web is under threat from the very objectionable SOPA bill that is in the process of becoming law in the US. It's not just the web in the US, since so many websites and crucial components of the internet and the web are housed in the US, SOPA will affect the web globally.
There's been a lot of criticism... |
13 December 2011
05:21 GMT |
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Keith Vaz, who is a member of Parliament in the United Kingdom, has asked fellow politicians to engage in a significant debate about the effects of video games on children as more and more parents are preparing to give popular titles as gifts for Christmas.The politician asked, “Could we have a debate next week... |
12 December 2011
12:31 GMT |
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Internet and tech companies in general have been quite worried about a couple of proposed laws that are going through the legislative process in the US right now. PROTECT IP and SOPA as the two bills are dubbed would give copyright owners huge powers over any website with almost no limits on how they can wield it.
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16 November 2011
08:34 GMT |
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When you think of online censorship, China or other oppressive regimes spring to mind. But you don't need to look any further than Italy, one of Europe's largest countries, one of the birthplaces of 'civilization,' to see how abusive regimes are trying to control something they don't understa... |
5 October 2011
06:02 GMT |
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HBGary Federal, an information security company hacked by Anonymous earlier this year, threatens its former CEO Aaron Barr with legal action if he doesn't pull out of a DEFCON panel.DEFCON is the world's largest hacker conference and takes place every year in Las Vegas. The panel Barr was supposed to speak ... |
29 July 2011
05:29 GMT |
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Researchers from Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy are building a system that promises to foil web filtering attempts in countries where governments are trying to censor the Internet.Dubbed Telex, the system focuses on hiding the user's attempt to establish an anonymous connect... |
19 July 2011
11:04 GMT |
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More than a year ago, Google started releasing data about government requests it received, every six months or so. Now, it's providing the latest update, with data covering July to December 2010, and is also providing more information on the requests, what was their motivation, how many times Google complied and... |
28 June 2011
04:37 GMT |
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Google has refused to comply with a new requirement in Kazakhstan which now demands that all websites using a .kz domain name must have servers physically located in the country. Google has criticized the move, saying it creates an internet with borders and limits the experience for local users. As such, the company ... |
8 June 2011
07:25 GMT |
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As the internet becomes more common place and is affecting more and more people in countless new ways, governments around the world are starting to adjust and aim to control it. Iran already has one of the most advanced internet censorship systems in the world, but this is no longer enough, it's now moving to di... |
30 May 2011
09:10 GMT |
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Turkish internet users have had enough. The government regularly blocks websites it doesn't like, backed up by rather draconian laws and liberal interpretations, some as big as YouTube, and now it plans to introduce voluntary internet filters that would block certain websites and content. It also plans to ban so... |
16 May 2011
09:20 GMT |
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The unrest in Egypt, where demonstrators have been protesting against the 30-year regime, is escalating and is turning violent. Unlike in the recent Tunisian revolution, which mostly likely had a lot to do with the situation in Egypt, President Hosni Mubarak isn't going down without a fight. The latest, sporadic... |
28 January 2011
05:04 GMT |
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The internet was supposed to be the great unifier, the one technology which enables everyone to express themselves without fear of oppression. But as more and more governments around the world finally wake up to this, they're moving to seize control of the web one way or another, sometimes for misguided reasons ... |
17 January 2011
17:51 GMT |
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YouTube, and any other video website for that matter, may be facing a grim future in Italy as the country has passed new rules that would treat online video services just like TV stations and would make them responsible for all the content, even user generated one. Such rules would be next to impossible for YouTube a... |
4 January 2011
08:05 GMT |
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China has the world's largest internet population, but the authorities are not giving up on their idea of controlling the web. And it seems to be working, at least according to the statistics the government itself released. The State Council Information Office managed to shut down 60,000 websites with 'adul... |
3 January 2011
11:28 GMT |
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The situation of YouTube's availability in Turkey is getting murkier by the minute. A two-year ban was lifted over the weekend, however, YouTube has since restored the videos that were the cause of the dispute paving the way for another ban. The site was, in fact, blocked again for a period yesterday, but then u... |
3 November 2010
08:11 GMT |
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A 30-month ban on YouTube in Turkey was lifted on Saturday. Users can now visit the site freely again, but this may not last as the videos which were the source of the ban have now been restored by YouTube, after being taken down last week following a copyright infringement complaint.Turkey banned the site after a nu... |
2 November 2010
10:31 GMT |
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The most successful video game company in the world, Activision Blizzard, has announced that it will join other companies and support games in front of California's new violent video game law that aims to restrict the sales of such titles.After yesterday's letter of support sent by reputed comics writer Sta... |
22 September 2010
14:21 GMT |
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The designer working on the Disney project Epic Mickey has said that video games are at the moment facing the possibility of more censorship that movies did at the same moment in their evolution, years ago.The legendary game designer, who has worked on such transformative titles like Deus Ex, Thief and System Shock, ... |
7 September 2010
15:11 GMT |
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Google’s plan to serve the Chinese search market without censoring results may have hit a snag. For the past few months, the company has been redirecting traffic from Google.cn to its Hong Kong servers where it could provide unfiltered searches, to the dislike of the Chinese government. China filtered the Hong ... |
29 June 2010
03:08 GMT |
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Bangladesh has lifted its week-long ban on Facebook on Sunday. The ban came as a consequence of images, depictions of the Prophet Mohammed and caricatures of some of the country’s political leaders, that were deemed offensive by the authorities,. Facebook has agreed to remove the images Bangladesh took offense ... |
7 June 2010
06:45 GMT |
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Facebook was recently blocked in Pakistan over content that the country’s Muslim majority found offensive. The spark was a Facebook group that encouraged users to submit drawings of the Prophet Mohammed, an act considered ‘blasphemous’ by many Muslims. Now, a Pakistani court has lifted the ban after... |
31 May 2010
05:53 GMT |
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Fed up with the defamatory content found on one website on the Internet, Bordentown Mayor James E. Lynch Jr. convinced City Council members to pass a law forcing the hosting service of that website to take down its pages.
The website BordentownMayorReallySucks.com greets visitors with a raunchy dose of criticism ... |
27 May 2010
09:47 GMT |
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Australia has long been criticized for proposed plans to implement wide Internet censorship, as well as other moves that don’t really have their place in a supposedly democratic country. Stephen Conroy, the country’s communications minister and the man largely responsible for the Internet-filtering propos... |
25 May 2010
09:36 GMT |
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The effects of the decision to stop censoring results in China are already starting to be felt at Google. According to new studies, Google lost a big slice of the search-ad market in the first quarter of the year, the first decline since the second quarter of 2009. It’s now clear that advertisers are worried th... |
23 April 2010
06:41 GMT |
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With the Internet becoming more affordable and more available all around the world, it is proving a disruptive force in countless ways. Unfortunately, some regimes, specifically the ones used to controlling public opinion and media, don't take too kindly to this type of disruption and try to do what they do best... |
20 April 2010
07:37 GMT |
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Google's decision to stop censoring search results in China was put into practice yesterday, as all traffic coming to Google.cn was redirected to Google.com.hk, the company's Hong Kong search engine from where it could serve uncensored results. The move wasn't going to go unnoticed or unpunished and t... |
24 March 2010
05:50 GMT |
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The writing's on the wall for Google's stay in China, at least as far as the search engine is concerned. The first clear indications came a couple of days ago when reports claimed the imminent announcement of pull-out. Now the Financial Times is also claiming the very same thing. But the clearest sign that ... |
22 March 2010
05:58 GMT |
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Google's five-year venture into the Chinese search market may be coming to an end in just a couple of weeks if the latest reports turn out to be accurate. The company is now expected to shut down its local search engine, Google.cn, on April 10 with an official announcement expected on Monday, March 22. Google h... |
19 March 2010
12:07 GMT |
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The controversial Digital Economy Bill has passed through the House of Lords, one of the UK Parliament's chambers, and will now go before the House of Commons, where it is expected to be rushed through before the general elections in the country. The bill has seen some of its most controversial portions amended,... |
16 March 2010
07:19 GMT |
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The Internet has been around for quite a while now but only recently has it gotten a wide enough spread and become accessible to enough people in developing countries that it is beginning to be a target for totalitarian regimes from Cuba to Italy. Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is known for his increasingly strong ... |
15 March 2010
07:30 GMT |
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While Google's negotiations with Chinese authorities are still pretty much behind closed doors, government officials are beginning to make it very clear that they will not accept any sort of wavier of the country's strict online censorship laws on Google.cn. Google hasn't acted on its decision to stop ... |
12 March 2010
11:04 GMT |
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The Internet is changing all the time, not that this is a surprise to anyone, but some of the recent trends are beginning to be worrying. While the Internet started out with the promise of free access to information, free expression and speech, it is now becoming more and more regulated and even censored. The efforts... |
12 March 2010
09:35 GMT |
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Google made some huge waves in January when it announced that it no longer wants to run a censored search engine in the country. There were those that questioned the company's motives but overall, the move got wide support in the US and internationally. Since then though, not much has happened, nothing has happe... |
23 February 2010
04:28 GMT |
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Undeterred by internal and external criticism, Italy is moving ahead to make the internet a lot less open. The plan is to make video-hosting sites abide by the same regulations as TV broadcasters, meaning the government would be able to hold these sites accountable for what the users upload. A draft decree is set to... |
4 February 2010
06:58 GMT |
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Twitter doesn't really play on the same level as Google but says it admires the tech giant for its stance on China. The microblogging service is all about open communications, not the biggest topic on China's agenda, or at least that what cofounder and CEO Evan Williams is saying. As such, the company is l... |
28 January 2010
06:13 GMT |
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Google's public fallout with China is still a matter of hot debate and both parties seem reluctant to take a definitive stance. Google's decision to stop censoring results on Google.cn may seem drastic, but the tone of the post is still a bit subdued and leaves the door open to negotiations. Chinese officia... |
21 January 2010
10:07 GMT |
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Google caused an uproar last week when it announced that it might pull out of China if it couldn't start operating an unrestricted and uncensored search engine in the country. There has been a lot of speculation as to why Google would make such a move ranging from sanctifying Google to much more cynical views s... |
19 January 2010
05:39 GMT |
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The recent Google China debacle has raised the issue of Internet censorship again and made more people aware of the restrictions governments like China's enforce on its citizens. And many probably felt lucky that they didn't live in a country that limits their access to information and the Internet in parti... |
18 January 2010
06:12 GMT |
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Google caused quite an uproar last week when it announced that it intended to stop censoring search results on its localized version in China. Its decision is commendable, yet, even as it takes up this fight, Google censors its results in a number of countries, including some European ones, to abide to the local law... |
18 January 2010
04:13 GMT |
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Net neutrality may be a topic of hot debate in some parts of the world, most notably in the US, but in other regions the Internet is facing worse threats than throttling YouTube videos, downright censorship is being advocated and we're not talking about China or other countries notorious for their abuses, the c... |
16 December 2009
09:05 GMT |
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The Japanese localization of Infinity Ward's controversial yet ridiculously popular Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 came with a bit of a snag. During what could easily be considered the plot-maker for the game's story, the famous airport massacre scene received a rather inaccurate translation. The original li... |
9 December 2009
08:21 GMT |
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The other day, of two major networks, only one came out as a winner for taking the “risk” of having Adam Lambert over for an interview and a mini-concert early in the morning, despite his performance at the American Music Awards 2009. That network was CBS that, in extending the invite to Lambert, showed A... |
26 November 2009
04:31 GMT |
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The U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk have sent an official letter to the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM), asking them to cancel and rethink the proposal that requires PCs sold in the country to come with a con... |
27 June 2009
05:24 GMT |
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Google is under attack again by Chinese officials and, now, they've blocked the company's global search page Google.com, as well as the popular online email manager Gmail. Both services were unavailable to Chinese Internet users starting at 9 p.m. local time, but were still accessible through external proxi... |
25 June 2009
06:45 GMT |
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With all the focus on Iran lately and its attempts at blocking many social networking services and other sites, it's easy to forget the biggest state that regularly dabbles in online censorship and the arbitrary blocking of web sites, namely China.While the recent blocking of Twitter, Flickr and the banning of c... |
20 June 2009
14:07 GMT |
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Since she broke on the music scene, Katy Perry has been deemed anything from a breath of fresh air to a daring fashion icon and the much needed dash of originality that the industry had been dying for. In Saudi Arabia, Katy Perry is seemingly also potentially offensive for daring to show her tummy and legs on the cov... |
21 April 2009
10:10 GMT |
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