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Lib Dems Mount Digital Economy Act Challenge

The Liberal Democrats have fulfilled a promise to challenge the Digital Economy Act in a Parliamentary debate

BT, Sky, Talk Talk and Virgin will offer users an 'active choice' to block adult content at the point of purchase

Cisco knowingly provided the Chinese government with technology to spy on Falun Gong members, say critics

The prime minister's suggestion that social networks should be blocked during riots was just puff, says Sophie Curtis

Computer scientists in the US have successfully disguised data to evade Chinese censorship

Microsoft's deal to allow Chinese search engine Baidu to utilise Bing is raising censorship concerns

The US is pushing ahead with its plans to override other governments that control access to the Internet

The UK government is preparing to block sites that promote terrorism and extremism

The EU is proposing its own “great firewall” despite ongoing controversy over its Chinese counterpart

The Chinese government is behind the disrupted Gmail service in mainland China, claims Google

A backbench MP has claimed that there is 'favourable consensus' on the need for Internet porn filters

The French president, an opponent of an unregulated Internet, wants to make censorship a global initiative

The Chinese government has boasted that its 'Great Firewall' has deleted 350 million pieces of 'harmful information'

Saudi Arabia has reportedly blocked access to Facebook, but officials called the incident an 'accidental error'

Google's WiSpy was a problem, says Peter Judge. But Ed Vaizey's mediation idea would rush towards censorship, in the name of protecting privacy

Apple has been awarded 18 patents by the US Patent and Trademark Office including the ability to censor text messages

China has renewed Google's content provider licence, after the search giant bowed to pressure and stopped providing a route round censorship

Google will cease rerouting Chinese visitors to its Google.hk portal, after the Chinese government threatened not to renew its operating license

The Turkish communications regulator TIB has banned many of Google's sites and services due to "legal reasons"

Chinese web users are complaining that standard searches on the Google Hong Kong website have been blocked

Google has been praised for taking the moral high ground on search censorship in China, but Google's motives are far more selfish, says Clint Boulton

Google's dispute with China shows no sign of diminishing, after the search engine giant suggested that the issue should be brought before the WTO