Why Nominet disconnected more than 1,000 sites with no court oversight: “The body responsible for the .uk internet addresses disconnected over 1,200 websites without any oversight from a court. The much-publicised action last month was…
Report of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media on Turkey and Internet Censorship (PDF file) Prepared by Dr. Yaman Akdeniz, Associate Professor, Human Rights Law Research Center, Faculty of Law, Istanbul Bilgi University….
Chinese Censorship Equals Protectionism – WSJ.com: “Chinese Censorship Equals Protectionism Freedom of speech violations aside, Beijing may also be violating its WTO obligations. WSJ, 06 January, 2010 By FREDRIK ERIXON AND HOSUK LEE-MAKIYAMA Beijing’s methods…
Expert claims file-sharing Bill could give Government control of the internet: “The Digital Economy Bill would give the Government the power to control the internet access of UK citizens by ministerial order, bypassing Parliament and…
ISPs slam Digital Economy Bill’s multi-million pound price tag: “ Why should broadband users bail out the music industry? Internet service providers have grumbled that the anti-piracy measures proposed in the Digital Economy Bill (DEB)…
Global Voices partners with Google on freedom of expression award: “ Nominations open today (December 29, 2009) for the Breaking Borders Award, a new prize created by Google and Global Voices to honor outstanding web…
Algeria Joins Filtering Fray: “ Algeria is the latest Arab country to join the ranks of Internet filterers, leaving only Iraq, Egypt, Libya, and Lebanon without widespread filtering. The first report of a blocked site…
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…
Christmas Blues for isoHunt – Liable for Inducing Copyright Infringement: “A California court has granted Columbia Pictures a summary judgment against Gary Fung, the owner and administrator of isoHunt.com, TorrentBox.com, ed2k-it.com and Podtropolis.com. In the…
CN – China Closes Down The Internet: “(Forbes) This week, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released regulations, dated Dec. 15, requiring the registration of all Web sites. MIIT’s justification was the need to…