IR – Iran moves to silence opposition with internet crime unit: “(Guardian) Iran has moved to block the last remaining outlet of expression for the country’s political opposition with the launch of a special force…
CN – China's Censorship 2.0: How companies censor bloggers: (First Monday) by Rebecca MacKinnon. This study explores an under-studied layer of Chinese Internet censorship: how Chinese Internet companies censor user-generated content, usually by deleting it…
Terrorism chiefs don’t know what they’ve censored online: “ You jolly well wanted records? Oh Police are shutting websites without keeping any records, hampering government efforts to address online extremism, it’s been revealed.… “ (Via…
EU – European 'internet freedom' law agreed: “(ZDNet UK) Europe is set to get a major overhaul of its telecoms regulation, after the European Parliament and Council of Telecoms Ministers reached a compromise on the…
EU agrees internet restriction guidelines: “Europe’s MEPs and Council representatives on Wednesday night agreed that restrictions on access to the internet within the EU may ‘only be imposed if they are appropriate, proportionate and necessary…
Removed paper on Internet censorship trails in Australia, NZ, UK with NetClean Whitebox, 2009 – Wikileaks From Wikileaks, Released October 21, 2009 Summary This is a technology white paper written by an internet censorship company…
Response to The Register story entitled “Turkey censors Reg commentards” published on 28 October, 2009. Dear Sirs, I am the director of Cyber-Rights.Org based in the UK and its sister organisation Cyber-Rights.Org.TR based in Turkey….
China Bans ‘Pornographic’ Online Literature: “Chinese authorities have banned 1,414 works of online literature, saying all of it was deemed obscene.” By Rhett Pardon, Tuesday, Oct 27, 2009 BEIJING — Chinese authorities have banned 1,414…
Internet Blocking study:(Aconite) Government attempts to block access to the Internet are mounting throughout Europe – but look set to backfire, according to new study. The Open Society Institute funded the report which is titled…
AU – ACS gives conditional thumbs up to internet filtering: (SC Magazine) The Australian Computer Society has released a report that flags conditional support to ISP-based internet filtering from a technical standpoint, based on a…