Censorship

Apple To Hire Local Manager In China For Data Requests

Apple looks to hire a local manager in China to handle 'data requests' from the Chinese government

10 years ago

Wikipedia Entry Faces Google ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ Removal

Are Google's worst fears about “right to be forgotten” requests coming to fruition, with Wikipedia entry removal?

10 years ago

House Of Lords Slams EU ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ Ruling

European ruling on 'right to be forgotten' is unworkable, says House of Lords

10 years ago

‘Friendly Wi-Fi’ Aims To Stop Porn Access In Public Hotspots

The voluntary scheme was designed to protect children from harmful content

10 years ago

Google Disruption Resumes In China After Brief Respite

The Great Firewall of China is back up and blocking Google access after a brief pause for Chinese users

10 years ago

Cloudfare Offers DDoS Protection For ‘Free Speech’ Websites

CloudFlare offers free anti-DDoS protection for political and artistic websites exercising 'free speech'

10 years ago

Turkey Restores YouTube Access Following Two-Month Ban

Turkey's telecommunications regulator said it has complied with a court ruling ordering it to restore access to YouTube

10 years ago

Iran President Urges Embrace Of Internet

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the Internet is an 'opportunity', and connection speeds will improve - but censorship continues

11 years ago

Google Readies Takedown Tool After EU Ruling Creates Surge Of Requests

Policiticans and paedophiles have asked to have links removed from search results. Google will make an automated tool to sift…

11 years ago

Russian Authorities Are Planning To Place New Restrictions On Internet Freedom

Russian lawmakers want to introduce new rules for bloggers, educational establishments and Internet Service Providers

11 years ago

Turkey Twitter Accounts Shut After Court Rulings

Accounts that leaked videos related to a corruption scandal in Turkey appear to have been blocked

11 years ago

Turkish ISPs Set Up Fake Google DNS Servers

Google concerned over fake Domain Name System servers apparently set up by Turkish ISPs, amidst various forms of web censorship…

11 years ago

Turkish Government Blocks YouTube Access Following Video Leak

YouTube ban follows last week’s shutdown of Twitter in the country

11 years ago

Turkish Court Suspends Twitter Ban

Turkish court rules that the country must lift a ban on Twitter that had been imposed last week by Turkey's…

11 years ago

Turkish Government ‘Blocks’ Twitter

“Twitter, schmitter” says Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who vows to ‘wipe out’ the social network in Turkey

11 years ago

Microsoft Claims ‘System Error’ Blocks Chinese Bing Search Results

Microsoft denies censoring its Chinese language search results, but blames a 'system error' for Bing omissions

11 years ago

TorrentFreak News Site Blocked By Sky Porn Filter

More fury at filters blocking non-offensive websites

11 years ago

BT Forces Customers To Make Parental Controls Choice

BT will offer network level parental controls to customers - and there's no sitting on the fence

11 years ago

UK Government Wants ISPs To Block Extremist Content

According to a government minister, launch of the new censorship campaign is “imminent”

11 years ago

Iran Facebook, Twitter Filters Lifted Briefly In ‘Technical Glitch’

Iran, whose new president has promised a softer line on Internet filtering, saw blocks on Twitter and Facebook disappear briefly…

11 years ago

1,700 Websites In Russia Go Dark In A SOPA-Style Protest

Popular websites stop their services for a day to highlight the possible effects of a new anti-piracy law

11 years ago

Quiz of the Week: Internet Censorship

Cameron's porn ban, China's repressive actions, North Korea's home brew Internet - what do you know about global censorship?

11 years ago

Iran Launches National Email Service For All Citizens

But cannot promise that the domestic and state-controlled email service will be free of censorship

11 years ago

Google Donates £1m To Internet Watch Foundation Amidst Child Abuse Controversy

IWF gets its a massive boost in its fight against nasty content on the Web from Google

11 years ago

Cameron Calls For ‘More Action’ Against Online Child Abuse Images

The government is to convene a summit with leading Internet companies, including search engines and ISPs, on how the industry…

11 years ago

Google Urged To Block Abusive Online Porn

Despite already doing a lot to delete indecent images from the Internet, Google and ISPs are facing calls to do…

11 years ago

Facebook Pledges Action After Sexism Campaign

Facebook has vowed to clamp down on postings and pages that promote violence and sexism against women

11 years ago

UK ISPs Block Two More File Sharing Sites

MPA wins court order to block Movie 2K and Download4All

12 years ago

Reporters Without Borders Names And Shames Corporate Spyware Sellers

UK's Gamma International is branded the "Corporate Enemy of the Internet"

12 years ago

MIT To Probe Suicide Of Reddit Co-Founder Aaron Swartz

Was MIT to blame for the death of activist Aaron Swartz?

12 years ago