Wuzhen in China hosted the World Internet Conference earlier this week, and the state refused to allow the opportunity to push its online censorship agenda to pass. China, ...
November 21, 2014 at 6:54 pm by Ashley Allen
In a controversial move, Reddit’s CEO Yishan Wong offered a blog post explaining as to why the company rarely takes down “morally objectionable or otherwise ...
September 8, 2014 at 8:53 am by Jeremy Tate
Twitter has said that it will remove images and videos of dead people as long as immediate family members request it. Any photos “from when critical injury occurs to the ...
August 21, 2014 at 12:47 am by Dave Alcock
Twitter has apparently blocked a well-known Russian hacker’s account following the government’s request. This apparently comes a week after the government stated ...
July 29, 2014 at 5:07 pm by Gabriel Roşu
Microsoft has been faced with some pretty serious allegations from cyber-censorship monitoring group Greatfire.org. They claim that Microsoft is deploying Chinese censorship ...
February 13, 2014 at 11:57 am by Ryan Martin
The Pirate Bay had a lot of battles to do last year, having their domains taken down by court-orders and resurfacing around the world with new domains. This did not discourage ...
January 5, 2014 at 11:31 pm by Gabriel Roşu
C.I.S.P.A. is back again? As I told you in April, it hasn’t quite made it out of the press room. DemandProgress.org shared this information with us today. Apparently ...
October 15, 2013 at 6:52 pm by Shane Blume
A Reuters report that emerged recently suggests that Russia is preparing to launch its own state-controlled search engine. The state-controlled search engine will be dubbed ...
October 14, 2013 at 11:14 am by Ryan Martin
TorrentFreak reports that within just three days of being release the Pirate Browser has passed 100,000 downloads already. The Pirate Browser is the Pirate Bay’s ...
August 14, 2013 at 4:54 pm by Ryan Martin
Despite Russia’s “generous” stance on offering Edward Snowden asylum Russia has relatively strict internet censorship in place and is looking to use the NSA ...
July 16, 2013 at 6:54 am by Ryan Martin
As if the NSA and PRISM spying on its own citizens wasn’t enough now The Next Web reveals that the U.S army has been censoring what information its soldiers received. ...
June 29, 2013 at 1:54 pm by Ryan Martin
Taiwan were the most recent country to reject SOPA-like legislation and you would of thought governments over the world would have learnt from the public outcry against ...
June 23, 2013 at 3:54 pm by Ryan Martin
According to a report by TechDirt there has been public outcry in Taiwan over the government’s proposed copyright bill. Apparently during May the Taiwanese government ...
June 21, 2013 at 5:30 pm by Ryan Martin
ISPs and copyright organisations have been relentlessly pursuing bans and blocks of the Pirate Bay website across many parts of the world. Most of them have been hailing the ...
May 6, 2013 at 12:54 pm by Ryan Martin
Anti-piracy groups in Greece are targeting major torrent websites for ISP level blocks. The requests that were filed are against some of the biggest torrent websites in the ...
May 2, 2013 at 5:54 pm by Ryan Martin
