Australia ISPs Call Net Filtering Plan ‘Ridiculous’ – Largest ISP participates in trials just to prove it… – dslreports.com 02:17PM Friday Nov 14 2008 by Karl Bode Over the last few years, Australian lawmakers have…
Spiegel Online: Taking the Crowd to Court: Wikipedia Shutdown Backfires: “Wikipedia Shutdown Backfires” 17 November, 2008 German parliamentarian Lutz Heilmann asked a court to shut down the German version of the popular Wikipedia Web site,…
German Wikipedia Back Online After Controversial Shutdown – ReadWriteWeb Written by Frederic Lardinois / November 17, 2008 After it had been unavailable in Germany for more than two days, the Wikipedia’s German portal is finally…
NEWS.com.au: Rudd Government’s internet filter to block up to 10,000 ‘unwanted’ sites By Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson, November 13, 2008 10:44am AUSTRALIA’S mandatory internet filter is being primed to block 10,000 websites as part of a blacklist…
Burma activists sentenced to 65 years each in draconian crackdown: “An internet blogger and a writer who disguised an attack on Burma’s dictator in the form of a love poem were among dozens of activists…
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,…