Iranian blogger gets 20 years: “ True price of freedom Canadian-Iranian journalist Hossein Derakhshan has been sentenced to nineteen and a half years in prison for crimes relating to his blog.… “ (Via The Register…
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Google shuts down music blogs without warning: (BBC) Bloggers told they have violated terms without further explanation, as years of archives are wiped off the internet. In what critics are calling ‘musicblogocide 2010’, Google has…
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…
Azerbaijani donkey bloggers jailed: “ US rattles small sabre over ‘further erosion’ of free speech The US has said it ‘regrets’ the jailing of Azerbaijani bloggers Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli, on what human rights…
Unmasked blogger Rosemary Port to sue Google for $15m$: “Google is to be sued for $15 million ($£9 million) by an anonymous blogger who was unmasked by the internet search company. (Via Tech and Web…
Vogue model Liskula Cohen wins right to unmask offensive bloggerA Vogue cover girl has won a precedent-setting court battle to unmask an anonymous blogger who called her a ‘skank’ on the internet. (Via Tech and…
Ruling on NightJack author Richard Horton kills blogger anonymity: Thousands of bloggers who operate behind the cloak of anonymity have no right to keep their identities secret, the High Court ruled today In a landmark…
Blogger can’t sue over comment, rules High Court: “ Didn’t like it, shoulda deleted it A man who was criticised in the comments section of his own blog cannot sue for defamation because he did…
[Blog entry by Dr. Yaman Akdeniz] It is now been reported by a media news source that the Diyarbakir First Criminal Court of Peace has removed the blocking order it issued on 20.10.2008 (order no….
Bianet :: Turkish Bloggers Are Furious After Youtube.com, WordPress and Googe Groups, now a well-known blog service blogger.com has been banned in Turkey. There has been no change in internet censorship. Bia news center –…