UK – Online child abuse image warning: “(BBC) Children’s charities have expressed ‘serious concerns’ many UK households still have access to images showing child sex abuse via their computers. The government had asked all internet…
Row over web blacklist | Australian IT Fran Foo | February 24, 2009 MAJOR inconsistencies have emerged in the way a top-secret blacklist of web pages is managed by the Australian Communications and Media Authority….
Chinese Learn Limits of Online Freedom as the Filter Tightens: “The recent censoring of a tongue-in-cheek variety show has provoked howls from China’s so-called netizens, critical of their government’s control of the Web.” (Via NYT…
UK – IWF chief: why Wikipedia block went wrong: “(ZDNet.co.uk) The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), an organisation set up by internet service providers to monitor child sexual abuse websites, caused a furore in December when…
Australia Internet Filtering Trial to Begin with 6 ISPs 13.02.2009 The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy today announced the first phase of the Australian Govt’s ISP Filtering Live Pilot…
Jacqui’s jihad on web extremism flops: “ Counter terror ambitions countered by reality More than a year after Jacqui Smith gave a major speech on counter terrorism, in which she said she wanted jihadi literature…
Bloomberg.com: Facebook Says Italy’s Plan to Block Web Content Goes Too Far Last Updated: February 12, 2009 08:43 EST By Steve Scherer and Giovanni Salzano Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) — Facebook Inc., the world’s largest social-networking…
China preps internet porn snitching awards: “ Ceiling cat wants the washer/dryer set China’s crackdown on internet pornography and ‘lewd’ content on the web has claimed another 276 websites, the government said on Tuesday, bringing…
Turkish Website Blocking Statistics as of 01 January 2009 [Blog entry by Yaman Akdeniz] Since the Turkish Law No. 5651 on the Regulation of Publications on the Internet and Suppression of Crimes Committed by means…
Post from: TorrentFreak Code Aims to Quell New Zealand “3 Strikes” Fears Scheduled for introduction at the end of February 2009, Section 92 of the Copyright Amendment Act 2008 is causing concern for many in…