China watches over internet café customers in web crackdown: “All visitors to internet cafés in Beijing are to be required to have their photographs taken in a stringent new control on the public use of…
Hoon: Not building überdatabase would be terrorist licence to kill: “ Fear? Hyperbole? He’s heard of them Transport secretary Geoff Hoon said last night that if the government is not able to harvest details of…
Oz watchdogs howl over ‘Cyber-Safety’ net filter: “ Can you opt-out? Aussie civil liberties watchdogs are warning the country’s ‘Cyber-Safety’ internet filter plan won’t actually let adults choose to opt-out from web censorship.… “ (Via…
Another article from the Times…. Dangerous and depraved: paedophiles unite with terrorists online – Times Online October 17, 2008 Dangerous and depraved: paedophiles unite with terrorists online Richard Kerbaj, Dominic Kennedy, Richard Owen and Graham…
Sounds all unbelievable to me but interesting article from The Times. Why wouldn’t they hide their messages into normal boring photos considering the fact that websites carrying child pornography would be more likely to be…
The WIP Contributors: Turkey – Access Blocked: A Disturbing Trend in Freedom of Speech Turkey – Access Blocked: A Disturbing Trend in Freedom of Speech Handan T. Satiroglu, October 16, 2008 Surfing YouTube.com, a favorite…
Turkish newspaper website blocked after creationist’s complaint | World news | guardian.co.uk Robert Tait in Istanbul, guardian.co.uk,Thursday October 16 2008 17.50 BST The website of Turkey’s third largest-selling newspaper has been blocked following a complaint…
Liberal Turkish paper has website blocked by authorities | TECHNOLOGY | NEWS | tvnz.co.nz Further net censorship in Turkey Oct 16, 2008 7:46 PM A Turkish newspaper said on Wednesday a court had blocked access…
Turkish Novelist Denounces Government at Book Fair: “Speaking at the Frankfurt Book Fair, Orhan Pamuk, the Turkish novelist and Nobel Prize laureate, criticized the Turkish government for its treatment of writers.” When he was working…
Jacqui Smith trails überdatabase plans: “ Let’s have a consensus The Home Secretary has today warned that the government will legislate to collect more data on internet communications because it believes it will help fight…