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Categories: France,
Europe
An IP address associated with the French presidential residence has been linked to six instances of illegal downloading, including of the film Tower Heist and the Beach Boys' Greatest Hits album.
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Kazakhstan's president orders a disabling of Internet and mobile communications in a city where 10 have been killed in a civilian-police clash.
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The OpenNet Initiative is pleased to announce that all three of our edited volumes—Access Denied, Access Controlled, and the newly released Access Contested—are now collected together online.
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Two Egyptian bloggers face legal action; an Rwandan online journalist is murdered in Uganda; a Syrian blogger is charged with inciting sectarian strife in the country.
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The Chinese government compares Internet rumors to porn and gambling; Russian websites undergo a large-scale DDoS attack during the country's elections; the Indian government asks social media companies to prescreen user content before publishing; Freedom House supports the Global Online Freedom Act.
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India's telecommunications minister met with top executives from multinational social media companies to discuss prescreening of user content.
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Russian websites providing independent coverage of the national election come under DDoS attack.
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Thailand officials crack down on Facebook content that offends the monarchy; a recent report shows that Google complies with two thirds of takedown requests; Pakistan downplays the proposed ban list of 1,700 words in text messages; the movie industry prepares to address concerns regarding the SOPA bill.
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Hacktivist group Anonymous has threatened the U.S. government over allegations of Internet censorship.
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The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority defers implementation of their list of 1695 English and Urdu words considered "offensive," a list which would force mobile operators to filter them in SMS usage in the country.
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ReadWriteEnterprise publishes an infographic about the SOPA bill; the UN Special Rapporteur of freedom of expression presented his report on Internet censorship to the General Assembly's Third Committee; China tries to reign in the Internet with more censorship/filtering measures.
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Internet giants including Google and Facebook placed a large advertisement in the New York Times yesterday expressing their collective stand against Congress's proposed Stop Online Piracy Act.
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Anonymous threatens to shut down Toronto's Internet should the city proceed with plans to evict Occupy Toronto protesters from the city's St. James Park.
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Categories: Brazil,
China,
Egypt,
Asia,
Middle East and North Africa (MENA),
Latin America,
Legislation,
Copyright,
Surveillance,
Threats to the Open Net,
Political filtering
Brazil's government considers a cybercrime proposal outlawing common online activities; Egyptian blogger releases a letter from prison protesting the military's accusations against him; China's top Internet firms pledge to increase regulation over their services.
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Citizen Lab research into the use of commercial filtering products in countries under the rule of authoritarian regimes has uncovered a number of devices manufactured by U.S.-based Blue Coat Systems in Syria and Burma.
Two Egyptian bloggers face legal action; an Rwandan online journalist is murdered in Uganda; a Syrian blogger is charged with inciting sectarian strife in the country.
Thailand officials crack down on Facebook content that offends the monarchy; a recent report shows that Google complies with two thirds of takedown requests; Pakistan downplays the proposed ban list of 1,700 words in text messages; the movie industry prepares to address concerns regarding the SOPA bill.
ReadWriteEnterprise publishes an infographic about the SOPA bill; the UN Special Rapporteur of freedom of expression presented his report on Internet censorship to the General Assembly's Third Committee; China tries to reign in the Internet with more censorship/filtering measures.
Brazil's government considers a cybercrime proposal outlawing common online activities; Egyptian blogger releases a letter from prison protesting the military's accusations against him; China's top Internet firms pledge to increase regulation over their services.
