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By: Jackie Kerr
Date: 12 Aug 2011
The South Korea government will push ahead with plans to scrap the current real-name system for Internet users in the wake of the country's worst online security breach, local media reported Thursday.
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By: Jackie Kerr
Date: 11 Aug 2011
“Major Ecuadorian newspapers ran the same cover today [August 10] — “For Freedom of Expression” — to protest President Rafael Correa’s increasing verbal and legal attacks on the independent media. The President devoted 42 minutes to his State of the Union speech today to criticism of the press”: Adam Isacson reports in his Tumblr blog, where he also shares images of the newspaper covers.
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By: Jackie Kerr
Date: 11 Aug 2011
Journalists and rights activists have expressed concern about diminishing press freedom in Sudan. Reporters attribute their pessimism to what they call a “coup” against public liberties. Chief among their concerns is the press freedom that was stipulated in the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), whose duration concluded with South Sudan’s independence that took effect on 9 July.
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By: Jackie Kerr
Date: 11 Aug 2011
Chinese state broadcaster CCTV has followed up its attack last week on microblogs with another one set against the backdrop of riots in London and English cities, putting the blame squarely on social networking sites (SNS) such as Twitter and Facebook. Many Chinese netizens, meanwhile, are sounding off like Americans (”Guns don't kill people…”), defending Sina Weibo, China's largest microblog service, as a platform which brings forth more truth about China than CCTV does.
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By: Jackie Kerr
Date: 11 Aug 2011
“A Honduran judge issued arrest warrants for a journalist and 16 environmental leaders for allegedly opposing a forest management plan in the town of El Porvenir, in central Honduras, reported the Committee for Free Expression (C-Libre in Spanish)”: writes Monica Medel for the Knight Center's Journalism in the Americas blog.
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By: Jackie Kerr
Date: 11 Aug 2011
More on the attacks against activists that took place this past weekend: a statement from The Coalition of Cuban-American Women, a video “of victims who got away with minor injuries”, and reports of two other incidents, here and here.
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By: Jackie Kerr
Date: 11 Aug 2011
In the wake of this week’s riots across the country, David Cameron today told parliament that the government is looking into banning people from using social networking sites if they are thought to be organising criminal activity. Index on Censorship this afternoon released a statement in reaction to Cameron’s address. Elsewhere online, the response has been heated.
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By: Jackie Kerr
Date: 10 Aug 2011
The Turkish Information Technologies Board (BTK) has modified its proposed Internet filtering system and postponed its introduction for further testing and in order to submit the new version to 10 days of public consultation.
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By: Jackie Kerr
Date: 10 Aug 2011
Hackivist group Anonymous vows to “kill Facebook” on November 5, citing users’ lack of choice in privacy as its reason for attack.
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By: Jackie Kerr
Date: 09 Aug 2011
China has vowed to purify the Internet environment for children and provide guidance for their online activities in order to prevent them from addiction, according to a government plan released Monday.
The Outline for the Development of Chinese Children (2011-2020) says that China will "facilitate a healthy Internet environment for children" by providing free or low-priced public Internet access exclusive to children, and applying special software to "filtrate away harmful information."
