ISP boss pledges to undermine Great Aussie Firewall: “ Stupid plan is stupid The Australian technology industry is starting to fight back against the government plan to force all ISPs to filter everyone’s internet access.……
The dangers of Internet censorship – The Boston Globe By Harry Lewis, November 5, 2008 SUPPOSE that government regulators proposed to read all postal mail in order to protect families from things they should not…
Since the Turkish Law No. 5651 on the Regulation of Publications on the Internet and Suppression of Crimes Committed by means of Such Publications came into force in November 2007, several websites were blocked by…
Malaysian authorities release detained anti-government blogger Malaysian authorities today freed a blogger who edits an anti-government news website, after a court ruled his arrest under a law allowing indefinite detention was illegal. Raja Petra Kamaruddin’s…
Malaysian Blogger Fights a System He Perfected: “Mahathir Mohamad, former prime minister of Malaysia, is one of an increasing number of bloggers challenging government censorship and gaining influence in the political process.” (Via NYT >…
Cohen’s article refers to the censorship attempt involving the Turkish creationist Adnan Oktar and the Akdeniz & Altiparmak article published in Bianet. Nick Cohen: Beware – creationism’s march will go on, The Observer, November 2,…
Is the internet going down down under?: “ It’s the end of the net as we know it The battle is now on for the soul of the Australian internet. The outcome could have enormous…
John Ozimek: A victory for the terrorists | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Website censorship erodes the very freedoms that the home secretary purports to defend. John Ozimek, guardian.co.uk, Sunday November 02 2008 20.00 GMT…
Index on Censorship: ‘There are more people working on censoring the Internet than developing it’ Yigal Schleifer is a correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor The successes of Harun Yahya show just how easy it…
Reporters Without Borders 31.10 – Turkey: censorship threat to news website Bianet (GIF) Lawyers acting for creationist religious leader Adnan Oktar asked the Turkish news website Bianet (www.bianet.org) on 28 October to remove an article…