Censorship

Iran Blocks More Websites Ahead Of Elections

The Iranian government expands its programme of web censorship ahead of March elections

13 years ago

US Secret Service Pulls Plug On Forms Site

The US Secret Service has shut down and then reinstated online forms site JotForm, without the need for a law…

13 years ago

Iran Begins Blocking Sites Using HTTPS Protocol

Reports suggest that Iran is clamping down on sites in the build-up to the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution

13 years ago

Brazil Sues Twitter Over Speed Trap Tweets

Brazilian government demands Twitter block accounts which warn users about traffic checkpoints and speed traps

13 years ago

TalkTalk Makes New Customers View Parental Controls

TalkTalk says new customers will have to make an active choice whether or not to filter a number of content…

13 years ago

Facebook And Google Remove ‘Offensive’ Material From Indian Sites

Indian court orders 21 major internet firms to prevent 'anti-religious' or 'anti-social' content from appearing on their sites

13 years ago

Google To Censor Blogger Sites On Country-By-Country Basis

Google follows Twitter's lead and will use country-code top level domains to censor content as required

13 years ago

Twitter Faces Protest Over Censorship Move

Users are protesting at Twitter's decision to censor content in certain countries in line with local laws

13 years ago

Dutch ISPs Refuse To Block The Pirate Bay

KPN and T-Mobile say that censorship should only be used as a ''drastic measure'

13 years ago

Twitter Can Now Censor Tweets In Individual Countries

Twitter says it must block tweets to grow internationally, but promises to clearly mark when it does so

13 years ago

Filesonic Puts The Brakes on File Sharing Service

The ramifcations of the MegaUpload shutdown continue to be felt as Filesonic disables file sharing and its reward programme

13 years ago

SOPA Is Back, And Sir Tim Berners-Lee Is Out To Stop It

As the Stop Online Piracy Act comes back on Congress's schedule, the father of the Web speaks out against it

13 years ago

Chinese Government’s RedPad Android Tablet Attracts Internet Ire

Chinese Communist Party officials to get a £1000 Android tablet with bespoke apps, developed secretly for two years

13 years ago

Wikipedia Blackout To Go Ahead Despite SOPA Pullout

Wikipedia and other high-profile websites will shut down for 24 hours in protest against 'devastating' anti-piracy bills, while Twitter's CEO…

13 years ago

US SOPA Bill Killed In Congress

The SOPA Anti-piracy bill has been scuttled, but the Senate's PIPA bill sails on

13 years ago

Sweden Grants Religious Recognition To File-Sharing Church

Sweden has accepted that a "church" which believes in file-sharing as a religion: a move that will not please the…

13 years ago

Hactivists Plot Satellite System To Bypass Web Censorship

So called hacktivists are considering an outlandish plan to launch their own satellites to create a free space-based Internet, immune…

13 years ago

Belarus Restricts Access To Foreign Websites

Belarusians will be fined up to £81 if they conduct business on foreign websites un der a law that comes…

13 years ago

O2 Error Blocks Church Website Over Adult Content Claim

Users unable to access church Website for four months due to O2's 18-plus rating

13 years ago

Beijing Clamps Microblogs With Registration Regulation

China continues its online clampdown after ordering the registration of real names on microblog sites

13 years ago

India Urges Tech Firms To Cut Offensive Content

India is urging Google, Microsoft and Facebook to halt the uploading of “objectionable” web content

13 years ago

Google Sued By Max Mosley For ‘Orgy’ Search

The former head of FIA, Max Mosley wants Google to remove damaging search results proactively

13 years ago

Google Continues Silent Censorship

Google blocks lazy pirates by refusing to autocomplete the names of certain sites

13 years ago

SOPA: An Act That Would Break The Internet

The US House Of Representatives' Stop Online Piracy Act would break e-commerce and still fail to prevent piracy, says Wayne…

13 years ago

Chinese Firms Agree To Increase Online Censorship

Chinese firms have pledged to increase their censorship of online content as part of a government crack down

13 years ago

Government Asks YouTube To Pull Down 135 Videos

The UK government is increasingly asking YouTube to block videos for security reasons, Google report says

13 years ago

Beijing Defends Right To Censor Internet

The Chinese government has defended its “Great Firewall Of China” following fresh American pressure

13 years ago

ISPs Defend New Porn Filtering Measures

Virgin Media, BT, Sky and TalkTalk say their new child-protection measures will not affect existing customers

13 years ago