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The Pew Report recently released its State of News Media 2011 study, which reported that more users now obtain their news from online sources than from newspapers in the United States.
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With WikiLeaks blocked in mainland China, the founder of the whistle-blowing website sharply criticized the Chinese goverment for their online censorship practices. This comes in light of multiple cable releases from last year that may threaten U.S.-China relations.
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Hungary only recently stepped into its six-month EU presidency at the beginning of this year. But already, serious concerns about its new media law that gives an unprecedented amount of power to the Hungarian government to control media has the nation at odds with the rest of Europe and the world.
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Conservative Tennessee Representative Marsha Blackburn objected to the FCC's new regulations on net neutrality at the "State of the Net" conference today. As she pushes her own bill to take away regulatory power from the communications agency, politicians debate whether her "Internet Freedom Act" will pass.
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This Wednesday, Spain's government organization on data protection will battle Google in a legal suit in hopes that the Internet company will take down information sensitive to individuals in the nation. This leads many to question whether Spain is heading toward an Internet policy marked by possible censorship.
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After findings of McDonald's ban on certain gay websites in its New Zealand restuarants, some question whether the company aims to actively block LGBT online content in the country.
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Libyan leader Qaddafi points the finger at WikiLeaks for the ongoing violent uprising against President Ben Ali's regime after cables were released about the Ben Ali's family's extravagant spending and mafia-related activity.
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Saudi Arabia's Culture and Information Industry recently announced they would begin requiring registered licenses for those who wish to publish on websites, stimulating negative responses from the Saudi blogging community.
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As heavy censorship continues in Tunisia, a group of hackers takes protest into their own hands, implementing a series of DDoS attacks on government websites in the country.
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British Communications Minister Ed Vaizey will begin discussions with ISPs to filter pornography on the Internet in a claimed attempt to provide more protection against adult content for minors. But critics fear that this will grant the government more power to censor the Internet in the future.
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Saudi Arabia "defriended" and "refriended" Facebook for several hours this past Saturday. Officials claim moral reasons as the reason and are quoted to say that the site "crossed a line" with the country's conservative slant.
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Eric Schmidt of Google recently criticized the Chinese government for their censorship policies at an event by the Council on Foreign Relations held in New York. With his prediction that filtering the Internet in China will ultimately fail, Schmidt draws attention to another Google-related controversy this year concerning Google's relationships with domestic governments.
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Recent reports claim that Amazon's electronic book browsing device is able to circumvent the Chinese firewall, allowing access to sites like Facebook and Twitter. As news spreads, Internet users and the international blogosphere anticipate government intervention in the near future.
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Labor Party Leader and Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard has recently begun supporting a movement toward filtering Internet content in Australia. With domestic and international responses comparing Gillard’s new initiative to web censorship agendas in China and Iran, a debate arises about the validity of government control over the Internet in a first-world country.
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Popular P2P file sharing software LimeWire was shut down recently by the U.S. District Court after four years of legal battles with the Recording Industry Association of America. As the RIAA continues its copyright fight against illegal music sharing, will other software be able to avoid LimeWire’s fate?
Conservative Tennessee Representative Marsha Blackburn objected to the FCC's new regulations on net neutrality at the "State of the Net" conference today. As she pushes her own bill to take away regulatory power from the communications agency, politicians debate whether her "Internet Freedom Act" will pass.
This Wednesday, Spain's government organization on data protection will battle Google in a legal suit in hopes that the Internet company will take down information sensitive to individuals in the nation. This leads many to question whether Spain is heading toward an Internet policy marked by possible censorship.
After findings of McDonald's ban on certain gay websites in its New Zealand restuarants, some question whether the company aims to actively block LGBT online content in the country.
Libyan leader Qaddafi points the finger at WikiLeaks for the ongoing violent uprising against President Ben Ali's regime after cables were released about the Ben Ali's family's extravagant spending and mafia-related activity.
As heavy censorship continues in Tunisia, a group of hackers takes protest into their own hands, implementing a series of DDoS attacks on government websites in the country.
Labor Party Leader and Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard has recently begun supporting a movement toward filtering Internet content in Australia. With domestic and international responses comparing Gillard’s new initiative to web censorship agendas in China and Iran, a debate arises about the validity of government control over the Internet in a first-world country.
