Aussie protests over Great Firewall
Aussie protests over Great Firewall: “ World+dingo objects Hundreds of Aussies turned out to protest against government plans to filter web content.… “ (Via The Register – Public Sector.)
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China ‘bans’ BBC’s Chinese website (again!)
China ‘bans’ BBC’s Chinese website: “ No Auntie for you, comrade The Chinese authorities appear to have reverted to their pre-Olympic position of denying access to ‘sensitive’ websites – including the BBC’s Chinese language tentacle.……
Virgin Media to Throttle BitTorrent Users
Virgin Media to dump neutrality and target BitTorrent users: It’s deep packet inspection, but it’s not for Phorm… Exclusive The UK’s second largest ISP, Virgin Media, will next year introduce network monitoring technology to specifically…
The Observer: Wikipedia censorship highlights a lingering sting in the tail
The Observer: Wikipedia censorship highlights a lingering sting in the tail John Naughton, The Observer, Sunday 14 December 2008 ‘Scorpions’, says Wikipedia, ‘are eight-legged venomous arachnids. They have a long body with an extended tail…
Australia to Test Web Filter to Block Banned Content
Australia to Test Web Filter to Block Banned Content: “The government plans to test a nationwide Web filter that would require Internet service providers to block access to thousands of sites containing illegal content, officials…
Pirate Bay Censorship Case Not Over Yet
Post from: TorrentFreak Pirate Bay Censorship Case Not Over Yet Earlier this year a Danish court ordered the ISP ‘Tele2′ to block its customers from accessing The Pirate Bay. The appeal of this initial ruling…
Should Internet Censors Be Responsible For Breaking Stuff?
(Via Techdirt.) Should Internet Censors Be Responsible For Breaking Stuff?: “In the wake of the UK Internet Watch Foundation’s block of a particular Wikipedia page for what it claimed was illegal child pornography, and the…
EFF: Internet Censors Must Be Accountable For The Things They Break
Internet Censors Must Be Accountable For The Things They Break | Electronic Frontier Foundation “December 9th, 2008 Internet Censors Must Be Accountable For The Things They Break Deeplink by Peter Eckersley Yesterday’s scandal over the…
Richard Clayton: Technical aspects of the censoring of Wikipedia
Technical aspects of the censoring of Wikipedia: “ Part of the encyclopaedia website Wikipedia was censored in the UK between Friday 5th December 2008 and Tuesday 9th December 2008. Errors in the way that this…
Australian ISPs Refuse To Censor The Internet
Good for them! (Via Techdirt.) Australian ISPs Refuse To Censor The Internet: “It looks like the Australian government’s latest plan to censor the internet is running into a few snags. Earlier, one big ISP had…