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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: India,
Iran,
United States of America,
United States/Canada,
Asia,
Middle East and North Africa (MENA),
Legislation,
Obscenity,
Take-down,
Surveillance,
Threats to the Open Net
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.
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Charles Ingabire, online editor for a Rwandan news site, was recently shot and killed in Uganda. Some believe that his murder was linked to his criticism of Rwandan president Paul Kagame's regime.
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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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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.
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.
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.
