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By: Matt Lavigueur
Date: 19 Jul 2011
Anti-censorship system, Telex, takes a new approach to circumvention.
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By: Matt Lavigueur
Date: 19 Jul 2011
Finnish ISP Elisa refuses to block Pirate Bay site.
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By: Matt Lavigueur
Date: 19 Jul 2011
Iran bans Google+
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By: Matt Lavigueur
Date: 19 Jul 2011
About 100 Yemeni journalists protest censorship and government harassment outside the residence of vice-president Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.
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By: Matt Lavigueur
Date: 18 Jul 2011
EU group rejects a measure that would mandate blocking child porn on an EU-wide level.
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By: Matt Lavigueur
Date: 18 Jul 2011
Indonesian IT minister revives calls for stricter control on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
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By: Simon Columbus
Date: 15 Jul 2011
ISPs should not just act to enforce the law, but also proactively look for content that is merely "borderline" - and remove it, says the European Commission's Director General for the Information Society.
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By: Simon Columbus
Date: 14 Jul 2011
Kazakhstan has been blocking the popular WordPress.com blogging platform since June. In an official statement, the country's main ISP says this is due to two "illegal" blogs. Bloggers however claim that the block is part of a strategy to silence criticism of a customs union with Russia and Belarus.
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By: Simon Columbus
Date: 14 Jul 2011
Russia's Communications Ministry is considering legislation to censor offensive comments left on online media websites. A current draft would give increased power to media regulators to demand for comments to be deleted. Blogs and social networking sites, however, would not be affected.
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By: Simon Columbus
Date: 14 Jul 2011
In an article that is part of a Boston Review forum on political and social change in China, Ying Ma writes that China is trying to benefit economically from the Internet while curbing its democratic potential.
