Tunisia and Bahrain Block Individual Twitter Pages: “ First, governments blocked Blogspot. Then they blocked Facebook, and then Twitter. And just when technophiles all over the globe started groaning, a couple of governments got a…
'Iranian cyber army' hits Twitter: (BBC) A group claiming to be the Iranian Cyber Army managed to redirect Twitter users to its own site displaying a political message. Twitter said the attack had been carried…
Iranian hackers ‘hijack’ Twitter: Popular online messaging service Twitter was left reeling overnight, after Iranian hackers appeared to break into the site and deface it. The strike left the site completely unavailable for several hours…
Twitter breaks privacy law, says Norwegian consumer group: “The Norwegian consumer group that says that Facebook’s terms and conditions break the law has pledged also to take action against Twitter and LinkedIn.” (Via OUT-LAW News.)
The Twitter storm that saved freedom of speech: “ But not exactly, not really… Comment So was it Twitter what won it? Yesterday, in the wake of a flurry of Twitter and blogosphere outrage, the…
Reporting bans may lose their power in Twitter age says expert after Guardian ban is lifted: “The editor of a newspaper which was banned from reporting on the tabling of a question in Parliament has…
Blogger who was target of Twitter and Facebook attacks blames Russia Russian hackers are believed to be behind a ‘single, massively co-ordinated attack’ on some of the world’s leading websites, all in an effort to…
New Calls for Global Web Censorship Probe – InternetNews.com Following social media flurry in Iran and China, lawmaker calls for a hearing to look into online censorship abroad. July 9, 2009, By Kenneth Corbin In…
Iran’s Twitter Revolution: Ahmadinejad’s Fear of the Internet: “With the Iranian authorities cracking down on the international press, the West is reliant on the Internet to find out what is happening on the ground. Hard…
IR – The Twitter crisis: how site became voice of resistance in Iran: “(Guardian) As foreign journalists were expelled from Iran or confined to their hotel rooms, and as events moved at speed through the…