Algeria Joins Filtering Fray
Algeria Joins Filtering Fray: “ Algeria is the latest Arab country to join the ranks of Internet filterers, leaving only Iraq, Egypt, Libya, and Lebanon without widespread filtering. The first report of a blocked site…
January 2010
Tunisia and Bahrain Block Individual Twitter Pages
Tunisia and Bahrain Block Individual Twitter Pages: “ First, governments blocked Blogspot. Then they blocked Facebook, and then Twitter. And just when technophiles all over the globe started groaning, a couple of governments got a…
Christmas Blues for isoHunt – Liable for Inducing Copyright Infringement
Christmas Blues for isoHunt – Liable for Inducing Copyright Infringement: “A California court has granted Columbia Pictures a summary judgment against Gary Fung, the owner and administrator of isoHunt.com, TorrentBox.com, ed2k-it.com and Podtropolis.com. In the…
China Closes Down The Internet
CN – China Closes Down The Internet: “(Forbes) This week, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released regulations, dated Dec. 15, requiring the registration of all Web sites. MIIT’s justification was the need to…
India: Yahoo, Flickr and Microsoft introduce access filters
IN – Yahoo, Flickr and Microsoft introduce access filters: “(Guardian) A Guardian investigation has discovered that several internet companies have quietly introduced filters to prevent Indian users from accessing sexual content. The Yahoo search engine…
China says 5,394 arrested in Internet porn crackdown
CN – China says 5,394 arrested in Internet porn crackdown: “(Reuters) Chinese police said the crackdown on Internet pornography had brought 5,394 arrests and 4,186 criminal case investigations in 2009 – a fourfold increase in…