A food critic who goes by the online pseudonym Mr. Taster recently spoke about getting around Iran's sophisticated Internet restrictions, as Mashable reports. At the 2012 Reykjavik Internet Marketing Conference, he discussed how he uses virtual private networks to use Facebook...

Pakistan halts its plans to implement a firewall against a list of objectionable URLs. The Ministry of Information Technology reversed its decision after the National Assembly withdrew due to stakeholder concerns. PayPal eased up on its policy on companies using their...

Iranian Internet users experienced a drastic blackout over the weekend as the government blocked encrypted Internet traffic. Tor, an anonymity and circumvention tool that offersa network run by volunteers, reported that on Friday, the number of Tor users in Iran—usually around...

The Iranian government is stepping up controls on the Internet in the country, just in time for the country's legislative elections in March. New measures have been placed on Internet cafés that will now require users to provide...