China Targets Google, Baidu Over Porn

The Chinese Government has warned Google, Baidu and other popular sites in China that they must do more to block porn. Porn is banned in China but remains widely available. The Chinese Government said in a statement that the ... continue

Australian Censorship Regime could block over 20 million websites: Testing therefore Useless

As the debate around the proposed Great Firewall of Australia censorship scheme in Australia continues, the Government's long awaited censorship trial is due to begin shortly. While some ISP's are participating only to prove that the filter is ... continue

Is there a global left wing conspiracy to kill the Internet?

The United Kingdom will soon join Egypt, Iran, China and likely Australia with a regressive internet censorship scheme. The proposal from British Culture Secretary Andy Burnham includes content ratings for websites and content, television style restrictions on when ... continue

RIAA makes your ISP the judge and jury

So, the RIAA is getting much press about how it has figured out that suing grandmothers, dying children and single mother’s on the poverty line isn’t such a great idea. At least that is how it seems ... continue

Iran blocks access to Facebook, YouTube and 5 million other sites

Iran has blocked access to more than five million Internet sites, including Facebook and YouTube as part of a crackdown on content perceived to be immoral and anti-social. Abdolsamad Khoram Abadi, an advisor to Iran's prosecutor general told ... continue

Reverse censorship psychology Aussie style

Like most other countries around the world governments are trying hard to enact laws; or publicly shame companies, into censoring the Internet. In most cases; unless you live in China are some other draconian type country, these ... continue

China gags Scoble but blogging still lives

This past weekend has been a really boring one as far as news in the tech blogosphere. It got to the point that I joked on FriendFeed that we needed a typical Scoble "foot in the mouth" ... continue

Opening door to Internet censorship under guise of Saving the Children

Good or bad, the Internet has always been about the free flow of information; regardless of its format. If you are caught with something that is considered to be illegal on your own machine that you downloaded ... continue

Tim Berners-Lee has lost the plot

Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the world wide web, has decided that information on the internet can be wrong, and the solution is to rate websites on whether they are credible or not. On face value the idea ... continue

Report: GoDaddy Banned in China

China has blocked all access to domain registrar GoDaddy, according to a report by censorship blog Moonlight. The block started before the end of the Olympics, Moonlight says, and can be traced to a router within ... continue

Hey China: The Olympics Haven’t Helped Your Image

It was meant to be the event that showed the world how China had evolved, but the latest news coming out of Beijing this final Friday of the Olympics only adds to the list of newly exposed ... continue

Corporate Censorship: Someone’s In Trouble

You've gotta wonder who's getting fired at Circuit City today. The company's trying hard to wipe the egg off its face after sending out a corporate order for all its stores to pull copies of MAD Magazine from ... continue