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By: Jillian C. YorkDate: 23 Dec 2008Wikileaks, an uncensorable Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis, has released a complete list of banned child pornography sites in Denmark. The problem? Not all of the sites contain child pornography...0 comment(s)
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By: Jillian C. YorkDate: 22 Dec 2008A new report from Wikileaks, obtained from Freedom Against Censorship Thailand (FACT), shows that 1,203 web sites are being secretly filtered in Thailand under the internally noted reason of "lèse majesté."
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By: charlesDate: 20 Dec 2008According to reports published in The Register and The Times of London, an Indian court has been called to ban Google Earth in response to intelligence indicating that the satellite imaging was used in planning November’s terrorist attack’s in Mumbai.
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By: charlesDate: 19 Dec 2008According to New York Times and BBC news reports, China has begun to reinvigorate its filtration of foreign websites, including bans on BBC’s Chinese language website and Voice of America in Chinese. This censorship comes in the wake of a reduction in filtration during the Beijing Olympics.
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By: Jillian C. YorkDate: 17 Dec 2008Ban.This.URL, a blog documenting and examining online censorship in Australia, reports that Australia's The Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) has released a paper detailing the technical specifications of Australia's proposed Internet filtering plan.
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By: brendanDate: 16 Dec 2008Facing heavy pressure from Congress, the FCC last week delayed its planned auction for the 2155-2188 MHz band of spectrum.
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By: Jillian C. YorkDate: 09 Dec 2008Shortly after we blogged about the blocking of the Wikipedia page for heavy metal band Scorpions' album "Virgin Killer," it was announced that the England-based Internet Watch Foundation had removed the Wikipedia page from their child pornography watchlist.
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By: Jillian C. YorkDate: 09 Dec 2008On Monday, December 8, it was reported that a number of UK Internet service providers have decided to block access to a controversial Wikipedia entry showing an image of a naked girl. The ISPs acted after online watchdog the Internet Watch Foundation warned them that the image might be illegal.
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By: charlesDate: 04 Dec 2008Categories: Vietnam, Asia, Arrests and legal action, ONI, Political filtering, Filtering tech and software
According to AFP news reports, Vietnam’s government wants to enlist Google and Yahoo! to help “regulate” the country’s blogging scene in an effort to stop “incorrect information” from being published online. -
By: charlesDate: 30 Nov 2008Categories: Saudi Arabia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Human rights, Surveillance, ONI, Political filtering, Social filtering, Voluntary filteringSaudi Arabia has one of the most restrictive Internet filters in the world, yet according to BusinessWeek news reports, the Saudi censorship regime is vastly unlike that of most countries. Employing a mere twenty-five people, the country’s Communication and Information Technology Commission (CITC) uses software to “block broad swaths” of the Internet, while relying on citizens who send 1,200 requests daily for offensive sites to be blocked to cover the rest of the Internet.
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Date: 30 Nov 2008On Thursday this past week, Beijing-based lawyer-blogger Liu Xiaoyuan won Deutsche Welle's annual prize for the Best Chinese Blog. Then on Friday he discovered that the parallel blog he keeps at Sohu.com had been taken down. Fortunately, being a famous blogger, he was able to call an editor at Sohu and get it restored, although the editor wouldn't explain what had happened. Rebecca MacKinnon shares the story.
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By: brendanDate: 25 Nov 2008Categories: Europe, Data retentionLast week a disgruntled former employee of the far-right British National Party (BNP) leaked his party's membership list to the public, unleashing a torrent of Internet activity as Brits scrambled to find who in their neighborhood might be members. Yet while the list remains freely available on Wikileaks.com, no major UK newspaper or blog will link to it, and few will even mention the site where it can be found.
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By: daniel oppermannDate: 19 Nov 2008Wikipedia Germany experienced a brief period of filtering over the past weekend, following a complaint from Lutz Heilmann, a member of the German parliement. Although Heilmann has since withdrawn his complaint, the temporary filtering measure has lasting repercussions. Guest blogger Daniel Oppermann has the story.
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By: Jillian C. YorkDate: 14 Nov 2008With all of the news lately regarding Australia's Internet filtering scheme, one might think Australia were the first or only country to ever filter the Internet. Since the scheme was announced in 2007, it has garnered significant criticism and little to no applause. I spoke with Australian journalist Antoun Issa about the filtering scheme and its flaws.
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By: chrisDate: 11 Nov 2008Categories: Argentina, Latin America, Defamation, Take-down, Search result removal, Political filtering, OverblockingSince 2006, Internet users in Argentina have been blocked from searching for information about some of country's most notable individuals. Over 100 people have successfully secured temporary restraining orders that direct Google and Yahoo! Argentina to scrub the results of search queries. The list of censorship-seeking celebrities includes judges, public officials, models and actors, as well as the world-cup soccer star and national team head coach Diego Maradona.
