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Polish citizens take to the streets to protest ACTA; Thailand government becomes first to endorse Twitter's censorship; Google follows Twitter's footsteps with changes to Blogger platform.
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Google joins Twitter and announces plans to censor on a country-to-country basis.
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Protests erupt in Europe over ACTA, what critics have called "SOPA's evil twin."
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Last week, Twitter announced that it will begin censoring tweets when faced with legal orders from individual countries.
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SOPA/PIPA loses support from 19 senators; Twitter will now begin withholding content on a country-to-country basis; Digital Agenda leader and European Commission VP criticizes SOPA on her Twitter feed while supporting ACTA.
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A Russian government official publicly criticized the US for proposing SOPA following protests by the Russian Pirate Party outside the American Embassy in Moscow last week.
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Polish public administration websites are attacked by hackers after the government passes the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.
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China's Internet users hit the 500 million mark; big tech companies oppose Indian High Court's ruling on content censorship; Wikipedia shuts down in protest of SOPA/PIPA; SOPA and PIPA lose support from Congress members after public outcry pressures reps to rethink the bills.
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As China officially surges ahead of the 500-million mark in terms of people using the Internet, many wonder whether the government can really sustain their tight grip on online content.
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Already a Twitter celebrity within days of creating an account, Rupert Murdoch took to the Twittersphere by criticizing Obama and Google for opposing SOPA/PIPA and for supporting piracy.
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The Iranian government steps up restrictions on Internet café use just in time for the country's legislative elections in March.
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Delhi's High Court recently warned American Internet companies to start filtering their content, threatening to block the sites if they do not abide by Indian requests to censor content. In the court order, Justice Suresh Kait drew a direct comparison between India and China.
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Six senators ask to cancel the Senate's vote on the PIPA bill, citing the need for revisions to the copyright infringement proposal. Simultaneously, Texan senator Lamar Smith, one of the co-authors of the SOPA proposal has been found in violation of the very online copyright infringement he seeks to criminalize.
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Categories: Asia,
India,
Iran,
Legislation,
Middle East and North Africa (MENA),
Obscenity,
Surveillance,
Take-down,
Threats to the Open Net,
United States of America,
United States/Canada
NetCoalition companies consider an Internet blackout to protest SOPA; more domain suffixes become available, stirring concerns about increasing scams and hate groups; India's High Court threatens to censor Google and Facebook just like China's government; Iran steps up harsher restrictions on Internet activity.
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Iran implements stricter controls on blogs, comments, and text messages for a "clean, national" Internet; SOPA loses support from Nintendo, Sony, and other tech giants; Spain enforces the Sinde Law, which aims to crack down on file-sharing sites.
China's Internet users hit the 500 million mark; big tech companies oppose Indian High Court's ruling on content censorship; Wikipedia shuts down in protest of SOPA/PIPA; SOPA and PIPA lose support from Congress members after public outcry pressures reps to rethink the bills.
The Iranian government steps up restrictions on Internet café use just in time for the country's legislative elections in March.
NetCoalition companies consider an Internet blackout to protest SOPA; more domain suffixes become available, stirring concerns about increasing scams and hate groups; India's High Court threatens to censor Google and Facebook just like China's government; Iran steps up harsher restrictions on Internet activity.
Iran implements stricter controls on blogs, comments, and text messages for a "clean, national" Internet; SOPA loses support from Nintendo, Sony, and other tech giants; Spain enforces the Sinde Law, which aims to crack down on file-sharing sites.
