The Russian government blocks the Andrey Rylkov Foundation's website for publishing information about methadone, which can combat opiate addiction (and, relatedly, help stop the spread of HIV through the use of infected needles). The drug is banned in Russia. Google and Facebook...

Last Thursday, Twitter announced on its blog that it would begin censoring tweets on a country-by-country basis. The company stated: As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression....

Last week has been intensely eventful for those keeping up with the ongoing and unfolding drama concerning the SOPA/PIPA proposals. On Friday, six senators wrote a collective letter to majority leader Harry Reid asking him to cancel the Senate's vote on...

Iran's parliament has recently proposed to implement stricter controls over the Internet, including placing blog posts, comments, and text messages under the same surveillance as mainstream media. In attempts to create a "national" and "clean" Internet, the Iranian government is acting...