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Date: 06 Aug 2012A regional Russian Internet service provider temporarily blocked the entire portal of Russian LiveJournal in response to a court order to block one blog on the platform. The incident illustrates the probability of overblocking, especially when targeting an IP address.0 comment(s)
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Date: 03 Aug 2012Categories: United States of America, Tajikistan, United States/Canada, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Threats to the Open Net, Intermediary Censorship, Internet tools filtering, DNS tampering
Tajikistan blocked foreign news websites and YouTube; Twitter suspended and reinstated account of British journalist after he posted critical tweets of NBC; Skype makes chats and user data more available to police -
Date: 24 Jul 2012Last week Twitter announced it would appeal a decision by a New York judge requiring the company to turn over the tweets of an Occupy Wall Street protester, citing the privacy rights of its users.
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Date: 13 Jul 2012Categories: Sudan, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Arrests and legal action, Intermediary Censorship, Political filtering, IP blockingSince we blogged about the rumored Internet blackout in Sudan a couple of weeks ago, the Sudanese government continues to crack down on online news sites that report on the ongoing clashes between riot police and University of Khartoum students taking to the streets in protest of the regime.
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Date: 06 Jul 2012Categories: United States of America, United States/Canada, Europe, Legislation, Threats to the Open Net
Twitter releases Transparency Report; Declaration of Internet Freedom introduced; EU Parliament rejects ACTA -
Date: 13 Jun 2012Anti-online censorship protests spearheaded by online activist group Anonymous in India this weekend drew sparse crowds, but their efforts underscore a larger debate around Internet regulation in the world’s largest democracy.
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Date: 08 Jun 2012Categories: China, Kuwait, Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Legislation, Arrests and legal action, Threats to the Open Net, Political filtering, Social filtering
China clamps down on Tiananmen discussion; Google warns users of state-sponsored attacks; China unveils changes to Internet law; Kuwaiti sentenced to 10 years for blasphemous tweet -
Date: 07 Jun 2012The Chinese government is poised to enact a new level of regulation over the Internet, one that seeks to impose new, stricter rules on microblog services and their users.
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Date: 05 Jun 2012The anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in China marks an annual struggle between the pro-democracy activists wishing to commemorate the event and the Chinese censors hoping to quash all online discussion of the sensitive topic.
