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By: charlesDate: 01 Jun 2009China’s New Tang Dynasty Television has obtained a list of the words censored by Baidu.com, China’s largest search engine, according to reports in The Epoch Times.0 comment(s)
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By: charlesDate: 01 Jun 2009Iranians regained access to Facebook and Twitter following a one-day government-imposed ban last week, CNN News reports. Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, stated that he had not called for the ban, adding that he believes “in maximum freedom of expression.”
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By: charlesDate: 31 May 2009Dubai police are pursuing a plan to censor upwards of 500 search terms deemed offensive in an effort to block access to certain websites, AME Info reports. Though no progress has yet been made, according to Lieutenant General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, this follows the Dubai Police’s statement in April of their intention to protect the youth of UAE from “pornographic” and “anti-religious” video content on YouTube.
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By: charlesDate: 30 May 2009According to The Inquirer, German police have raided the offices of WikiLeaks.de, a website that publishes leaks of government documents, transferring control of the domain to German authorities and shutting down the website.
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By: charlesDate: 07 May 2009Categories: United Kingdom, Europe, Surveillance, Conflict and security filtering, Internet tools filtering
In an effort to “modernize” police tactics and surveillance, UK’s home secretary has called for the implementation of a system that records internet contact between users, according to BBC News. -
By: charlesDate: 06 May 2009Categories: Iran, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Circumvention, Internet tools filtering, Proxy blocking, Filtering tech and software
Iran’s Internet censorship regime is generally accepted to be one of the most aggressive in the world, yet according to the New York Times, by autumn 2008, more than 400,000 Iranians were able to access an uncensored web thanks to a software created by Chinese computer experts working for Falun Gong. -
By: charlesDate: 27 Apr 2009According to BBC News reports, top executives from major Internet companies including Google, YouTube, Twitter, Howcast, and Meetup visited Iraq last week in order to assess how their technologies might assist in the ongoing fight against corruption.
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By: charlesDate: 20 Apr 2009Categories: United Arab Emirates, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), ONI, Social filtering, Internet tools filtering, Filtering tech and software
According to reports in Business Intelligence—Middle East, Google has no intention of engaging in an Internet censorship program with the United Arab Emirates. -
By: charlesDate: 19 Apr 2009Based partially on a top-secret blacklist of websites, Australia’s program of Internet filtration is still in full force. Government censorship recently resurfaced in the media when Australia’s Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, admitted that certain images were added to the blacklist in error and blamed the Russian mob for the addition of a dentist’s site, according to reports in The Age.
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By: charlesDate: 10 Apr 2009According to Japanese daily Yomiuri, police have asked six cell phone social networking sites to delete messages from underage users looking for dates.
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By: charlesDate: 22 Mar 2009According to news reports, the government of Bangladesh blocked access to YouTube on March 9 after the site hosted a recording of a meeting between the prime minister and military officials following a border guard mutiny in late February of this year. On March 21, users in Bangladesh confirmed YouTube was unblocked after pressure from activists.
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By: charlesDate: 12 Mar 2009According to reports in The Hindu, India’s Maharashtra government is revisiting legal options to censor Google Earth in the wake of the program’s alleged use in planning the November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai.
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By: charlesDate: 25 Feb 2009A recent report on user-generated content on social media and blogging platforms in China reveals that there is variation in censorship levels across fifteen different blogging platforms according to Radio Free Asia.
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By: charlesDate: 12 Feb 2009The recent launch of Measurement Lab (M-Lab) provides consumers, regulators, and content providers with the details about their network’s performance, according to CNET. Backed by Google, the New America Foundation (affiliated with the Democratic Party), and the PlanetLab consortium, M-Lab aims to increase network transparency by allowing researchers to share data relating to network performance and regulation.
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By: charlesDate: 10 Feb 2009According to reports in the New York Times, four Google executives are on trial in Milan for charges of defamation and privacy violation regarding a video posted on Google’s Italian website.
