Articles Tagged with internet censorship

21Apr

Hypocritical Internet Censorship: Thanks America

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The White House has promised to Veto CISPA if passed by the US Senate. ...

18Jun

Google Receiving Record Number Of Censorship Requests, Even From Western Democracies

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In its biannual report Google announced on Monday that the company is seeing ...

23May

New York Law Could Ban Anonymous Comments Online

Anonymous to be banned in New York?

Two New York lawmakers are looking to ban anonymous comments from the ...

16Mar

Facebook Shuts Down “The Most Beautiful Teen in the World” Page Over Security Concerns

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A Facebook page that allowed teenage girls and boys to submit their photos for the “The Most Beautiful Teen in the World” has been removed from the social network after security experts and parents became outraged with the pages content and lack of controls. In a statement on Wednesday Facebook wrote: “We do not tolerate… Read more »

17Dec

Keith Olbermann driven off Twitter by feminist outrage

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As Julian Assange remained jailed without charges in Britain awaiting a bail ...

01Feb

South Australia Implements Internet Censorship On Political Speech

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South Australia has become the first Australian state to implement internet ...

19Jan

Google Nexus One Delayed In China As Censorship Fight Continues

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We knew it was only a matter of time before Google’s refusal to censor ...

08Sep

Anonymous targets Australian Government over Internet Censorship

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Update Feb 2010: This post details the 2009 Anonymous attack. If ...

26Jul

Censorship comes to America: AT&T blocks 4chan /b/

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The global internet censorship debate landed in the home of the free Sunday ...

25Jun

Confirmed: Second Life, online adult games to be banned outright in Australia

The Australian Minister for Censorship has today confirmed what I’ve ...

16Mar

Oz Wrap: TPN Broke, Wikileaks Censored, Fake Stephen Conroy outed

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This is the first of our occasional posts on Australian web, tech and ...

23Feb

Australian Minister confirms legal content may be blocked by Censorship Regime

Despite saying previously that “unwanted” content would be ...

11Feb

When in Rome, you may not be able to get on Facebook

The Italian Senate has passed a law that will force Internet providers to ...

08Feb

Australian Minister talks Internet Censorship as Victoria burns

As we’ve reported regularly over the last two days, Victoria, ...

05Feb

The Economic Cost of Internet Censorship in Australia

Much has been written about the social cost of the proposed Australian ...

16Jan

Australia’s Internet Censorship Scheme Takes Money Allocated to Pursue Pedophiles

The Great Firewall of Australia, the Australian Government’s Internet ...

15Jan

Germany to Introduce CP Internet Censorship

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Germany has announced that it will introduce compulsory Internet censorship ...

04Jan

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

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As the debate around the proposed Great Firewall of Australia censorship ...

22Dec

Great Firewall of Australia: What’s not mentioned makes it even more scary

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Many in Australia, and those overseas interested in censorship would have ...

23Oct

Australian censorship minister tries to censor critic: time to go Conroy

Australia’s ongoing debate over internet censorship has taken an ...