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Less than a week after the media declared YouTube accessible in Turkey, the country has again blocked the site, this time in response to a video purportedly showing former opposition leader Deniz Baykal in a hotel room with a woman who is not his wife.
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YouTube has been banned in Turkey since 2007. Now, for the first time in two years, the popular video-sharing site is once again accessible in Turkey. Since the site was unblocked, however, videos that were the initial impetus for the censorship have been restored. Will the unblocking be short-lived or will Turkey stand by this step toward Internet freedom?
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Blogger David Sasaki offers a picture of Internet censorship and freedom of expression in Latin America, taking a close look at third generation controls.
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Recent reports claim that Amazon's electronic book browsing device is able to circumvent the Chinese firewall, allowing access to sites like Facebook and Twitter. As news spreads, Internet users and the international blogosphere anticipate government intervention in the near future.
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Labor Party Leader and Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard has recently begun supporting a movement toward filtering Internet content in Australia. With domestic and international responses comparing Gillard’s new initiative to web censorship agendas in China and Iran, a debate arises about the validity of government control over the Internet in a first-world country.
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Popular P2P file sharing software LimeWire was shut down recently by the U.S. District Court after four years of legal battles with the Recording Industry Association of America. As the RIAA continues its copyright fight against illegal music sharing, will other software be able to avoid LimeWire’s fate?
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McAfee recently released its "Mapping the Mal Web" report, ranking the world's most dangerous domains after gauging a user's likelihood of contracting malware, viruses, and other online exploitations. This year, Vietnam's .vn TLD heads the list as the riskiest domain, among others.
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Major U.S. broadcasting networks have recently blocked access to their content on GoogleTV. As Google attempts to merge web browsing with television, they may find their plans for expansion stifled by traditional media.
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Groups opposed to an amending a Massachusetts obscenity law targeting electronic communications argued their case in front of US district judge Rya Zobel this past Tuesday. The internet content providers and free speech advocates filed a request for a preliminary injunction banning the state of Massachusetts from enforcing an amendment passed earlier this year that would make it illegal to send “matter harmful to minors” through electronic communications.
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This week, senior members of the Chinese Communist Party published a letter online encouraging increased freedom of speech on the Internet and criticizing current censorship policies. As the Central Committee of the CCP begins to formulate its next five-year plan, older members of China’s political elite are battling the current policy approach of tight Internet regulation.
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Lybian domain registry NIC.ly shuts down a year-old URL shortener known for its encouragement of NSFW uploads after ruling that it violated its terms of service. vb.ly co-founder Violet Blue discusses the final decision from Lybia Telecom and Technology that ends the URL-shortening service's run on the Internet.
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Senators Richard Leahy and Orrin Hatch recently introduced the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act into Congress. Under the pretense of copyright infringement protection, the bill would allow the Department of Justice to blacklist websites and impose legal restrictions on ISPs and DNS providers. Is government censorship imminent for American Internet users?
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The OpenNet Initiative is proud to announce the release of a paper on content regulation and account deactivations across five popular social media platforms, titled
"Policing Content in the Quasi-Public Sphere."
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"As the Internet is increasingly international, we increasingly need to look for international solutions," posits ONI's Rob Faris, discussing content regulation at Google's Liberty at 2010 conference in Budapest, Hungary on September 21, 2010.
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Indonesia struggles to try and stop pornographic content from reaching its citizens.
Less than a week after the media declared YouTube accessible in Turkey, the country has again blocked the site, this time in response to a video purportedly showing former opposition leader Deniz Baykal in a hotel room with a woman who is not his wife.0 comment(s)
YouTube has been banned in Turkey since 2007. Now, for the first time in two years, the popular video-sharing site is once again accessible in Turkey. Since the site was unblocked, however, videos that were the initial impetus for the censorship have been restored. Will the unblocking be short-lived or will Turkey stand by this step toward Internet freedom?
Blogger David Sasaki offers a picture of Internet censorship and freedom of expression in Latin America, taking a close look at third generation controls.
Labor Party Leader and Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard has recently begun supporting a movement toward filtering Internet content in Australia. With domestic and international responses comparing Gillard’s new initiative to web censorship agendas in China and Iran, a debate arises about the validity of government control over the Internet in a first-world country.
Major U.S. broadcasting networks have recently blocked access to their content on GoogleTV. As Google attempts to merge web browsing with television, they may find their plans for expansion stifled by traditional media.
Lybian domain registry NIC.ly shuts down a year-old URL shortener known for its encouragement of NSFW uploads after ruling that it violated its terms of service. vb.ly co-founder Violet Blue discusses the final decision from Lybia Telecom and Technology that ends the URL-shortening service's run on the Internet.
Senators Richard Leahy and Orrin Hatch recently introduced the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act into Congress. Under the pretense of copyright infringement protection, the bill would allow the Department of Justice to blacklist websites and impose legal restrictions on ISPs and DNS providers. Is government censorship imminent for American Internet users?
"As the Internet is increasingly international, we increasingly need to look for international solutions," posits ONI's Rob Faris, discussing content regulation at Google's Liberty at 2010 conference in Budapest, Hungary on September 21, 2010.
