Introduction In less than a decade, the Internet in Europe has evolved from a virtually unfettered environment to one in which filtering in most countries, particularly within the European Union (EU), is the norm rather than the exception. Compared with many of the...

On July 14, the International Herald Tribune reported that an Italian judge had ordered all ISPs in that country to filter access to The Pirate Bay, one of the world's most popular file-sharing sites. The Pirate Bay, based in Sweden, allows...

The father of an 18-year-old, who accessed "suicide chat rooms" on the internet before killing himself, has called for a law to ban them in the UK. Six years after his son Simon Kelly died, Paul Kelly is still angry...

YouTube was blocked again in Turkey on May 6, 2008 following an Ankara court order. YouTube has been banned a number of times in the last two years, usually because of videos offensive to the country hero Kemal Ataturk or to the...

Turkey's largest English-language newspaper, the Turkish Daily News, ran an op-ed by John Palfrey and Jonathan Zittrain today, on the future of the Net and the risk to freedoms of speech and expression. They write: In Turkey, the...

The news from Europe has been full of reports about The Pirate Bay. Denmark’s largest ISP, Tele2, after complying with a court injunction and blocking access to the famous file sharing site, yesterday announced they would fight the injunction instead. The...

John Palfrey is in Turkey this week, discussing many of the difficult issues surrounding filtering. Read his thoughts here, "Turkey at the Edge". ...

EFF reported recently that the EU's report on the Cultural Industries in Europe will go out without amendments recommending ISP filtering and copyright extensions. Language that was intended to push ISP-level filtering was introduced by the music industry last...

In a recent meeting, the Council of Europe's (CoE) Committee of Ministers adopted a set of recommendations for European states on digital content. "Recommendation CM/Rec(2007)11 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on promoting freedom of expression...

EU is moving to build online barriers to Internet sites spreading “terrorist propaganda” and bomb-making recipes. The governments are pressing for adopting strong security measures against terrorism or activities that aim at facilitating crime, while critics caution that some of the...