• Rethink needed on web censorship
    By: Jillian C. York
    Date: 06 Nov 2008
    Australia is moving to join China, North Korea and Iran in controlling what citizens are allowed to view on the internet. Federal Communications Minister Stephen Conroy confirmed recently the government is pushing ahead to introduce a $44.2m internet censorship plan.
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  • Medvedev calls for media freedom
    By: Jillian C. York
    Date: 05 Nov 2008
    Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called for an end to media censorship Wednesday, during his first state of the nation address since his election last March.
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  • Is the internet going down down under?
    By: Jillian C. York
    Date: 05 Nov 2008
    The battle is now on for the soul of the Australian internet. The outcome could have enormous repercussions for the future of the internet in the UK.
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  • The dangers of Internet censorship
    By: Jillian C. York
    Date: 05 Nov 2008
    SUPPOSE that government regulators proposed to read all postal mail in order to protect families from things they should not see. Anything not legally prohibited would be delivered. Any unlawful words, pictures, or videos would be thrown away. Sound like Orwell's "1984," or China? Perhaps.
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  • Thai Government Planning Large-Scale Internet Censorship Campaign
    By: Jillian C. York
    Date: 31 Oct 2008
    The news from Bangkok today is that Thai government is planning a large-scale campaign to block websites denouncing the much-beloved Thai monarchy, the king himself and the members of the royal family.
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  • Australia's compulsory internet 'costly, ineffective'
    By: Jillian C. York
    Date: 30 Oct 2008
    Australia's level of net censorship will put it in the same league as countries including China, Cuba, Iran and North Korea, and the Government will not let users opt out of the proposed national internet filter when it is introduced.
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  • Censorship stepped up to target "blogging"
    By: Jillian C. York
    Date: 30 Oct 2008
    The Chinese authorities have stepped up their censorship of the Internet to include "blogging". They have closed two sites hosting blogs (personal pages where Internet users can post their own comments on the news).
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  • Surmounting the Great Firewall of Australia
    By: Jillian C. York
    Date: 30 Oct 2008
    It seems silly to rehash days-old news — critics have piled the heat on the Rudd government for even suggesting the idea of a compulsory Internet filtering system. Of course, there’s no doubting that the proposal is blatant censorship, putting us on the same pedestal as China, Iran, North Korea and whichever other country is making hopeful strides towards the Axis of Evil. There’s also the backlash: a sudden and fierce outcry encompassing everything from phone polls to esteemed journos. Yet is there hope of changing Rudd’s mind?
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  • We Will Not Give In To Adnan Oktar's Threats!
    By: Jillian C. York
    Date: 30 Oct 2008
    Adnan Oktar, the name behind the closing of many internet sites in Turkey, has threatened Bianet: “There is an insulting article, take it off the internet or we will have you banned like Richard Dawkin’s site.” There is no insult, so we are not removing the article!
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  • Turkey tightens controls on Internet speech
    By: Jillian C. York
    Date: 29 Oct 2008
    For pioneering Turkish blogger Erkan Saka, these are dark days. Last week, he found himself cut off from a group of blogs that he belongs to and from hundreds of other websites he regularly reads. A Turkish court had just banned Blogger, the popular blog-hosting site owned by Google, because of illegal material found on a few sites on its servers. It was just the latest among hundreds of sites banned by Turkey's courts and government this year, raising concerns about censorship in a country with an already troubling record on freedom of speech
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