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By: Rebekah Heacock
Date: 01 Jun 2011
The cutting of Internet and phone service during Egypt's uprising in late January was the culmination of a long period of preparation, Al Ahram reports.
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By: Rebekah Heacock
Date: 31 May 2011
Thursday Oregon Senator Ron Wyden placed a hold on the controversial PROTECT IP Act, a bill many fear would open the door to Internet censorship.
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By: Rebekah Heacock
Date: 31 May 2011
Iran is taking steps toward an aggressive new form of censorship: a so-called national Internet that could, in effect, disconnect Iranian cyberspace from the rest of the world.
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By: Rebekah Heacock
Date: 31 May 2011
China is blocking mention of Inner Mongolia on Chinese microblogs and social networking sites, as part of an effort to clamp down on protests that broke out last week in the region.
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By: Rebekah Heacock
Date: 31 May 2011
A Thai-born American citizen was arrested in Thailand for violation of Lese Majeste. How did he insult the King? He linked and translated some parts of a banned book in his blog in 2007.
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By: Rebekah Heacock
Date: 27 May 2011
The government’s Drug Combat Department has blocked over 3,000 international Internet websites for being involved in enticing young people to take drugs and showing them ways to market these poisons.
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By: Rebekah Heacock
Date: 27 May 2011
The Pirate Bay is at the center of a new lawsuit filed at the District Court in Helsinki, Finland. Music industry representatives have filed suit against one of the major Internet Service Providers in the country, demanding that it blocks subscriber access to the BitTorrent site. The Pirate Bay is currently one of the most visited websites in Finland.
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By: Rebekah Heacock
Date: 27 May 2011
Slashdot regular contributor Bennett Haselton writes:
"An anti-porn organization's Facebook page is disabled by Facebook, and then resurrected. Was the page the victim of a "complaint mob", and could the previously-discussed "voting algorithm" have saved the page from being shut down?"
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By: Rebekah Heacock
Date: 27 May 2011
A court in Tunisia has ordered the country's internet authority to block all pornographic websites.
The porn sites became accessible in Tunisia when censorship was lifted in January, following the collapse of the authoritarian regime of President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, and quickly became among the most popular websites visited by Tunisians.
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By: Rebekah Heacock
Date: 26 May 2011
As expected, the U.S. Senate's Judiciary Committee unanimously voted to approve a bill that targets Internet pirates based overseas.
Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20066456-261.html#ixzz1NUVona8M
