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By: Rebekah Heacock
Date: 23 May 2011
Eight New York residents are sueing Baidu Inc and the Chinese government, accusing China's biggest search engine of conspiring with its rulers to censor pro-democracy speech.
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By: Rebekah Heacock
Date: 23 May 2011
The EU is on a downward path to endorsing Internet censorship as it will ask Internet service providers to help stop online piracy, argue lobbyists and digital rights campaigners on the eve of new copyright regulation.
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By: Rebekah Heacock
Date: 23 May 2011
Dr. Fang, the President of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, is known as the Father of the Great Firewall, and was pelted with eggs and shoes by students protesting Internet censorship.
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By: Rebekah Heacock
Date: 23 May 2011
Cisco, the maker of Internet routing gear, customized its technology to help China track members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement, according to a federal lawsuit filed last week by members of the movement.
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By: Rebekah Heacock
Date: 23 May 2011
Chinese police are seeking a man who said he threw eggs and shoes at the architect of China's "great firewall", the world's most sophisticated and extensive online censorship system.
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By: Rebekah Heacock
Date: 19 May 2011
In Syria, the crackdown on the streets has been mirrored by tumult on Facebook. Pages supporting the protesters have been hacked, and a shadowy group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army has used Facebook to coordinate its attacks.
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By: Rebekah Heacock
Date: 17 May 2011
Internet censorship is making a comeback in Tunisia, much to the annoyance of many cyber activists across the country.
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By: Rebekah Heacock
Date: 17 May 2011
Despite much attention paid to Egypt and Libya's Internet shutdowns, Tunisia's pervasive Internet filtering, and Morocco's arrests of bloggers, little attention has been given to Internet censorship issues throughout the rest of the African continent. Events in recent weeks, however, have brought the region's online troubles into sharp focus.
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By: Rebekah Heacock
Date: 17 May 2011
Thousands of people in more than 30 cities around Turkey took to the streets on Sunday to protest a new system of filtering the Internet that opponents consider censorship.
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By: Rebekah Heacock
Date: 14 May 2011
Six years after an e-commerce CEO's arrest for a pornographic CD sold from his website, the government has introduced a liability on intermediaries such as Facebook and Google to "act within 36 hours" of receiving information about offensive content.
