Threats to the Open Net: Week of 11/29/2010

By: Jillian C. York on 3 December 2010
Posted in Threats to the Open Net

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Threats to the Open Net

* The U.S. government has seized 82 sites on the basis of copyright infringement, reports the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

* On the eve of elections, Facebook removed (and later restored) several popular pro-democracy and anti-torture groups, writes CPJ.

* Webhost Amazon caves to pressure and pulls whistleblowing site WikiLeaks from its servers. Rebecca MacKinnon covers the issue in-depth for CNN.

* An article by Barney Warf in GeoJournal maps the 'Geographies of global Internet censorship'.