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By: Matt Lavigueur
Date: 07 Sep 2011
Member of South Korea's censorship board has his blog censored after discussing issues involving censorship decisions by the board.
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By: Matt Lavigueur
Date: 07 Sep 2011
Chinese regulators have renewed a key Google license, suggesting that the government has accepted Google's workaround method of redirecting google.cn to an unfiltered Hong Kong search engine to avoid censoring its Chinese language searches.
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By: Matt Lavigueur
Date: 07 Sep 2011
MEP Marietje Schaake discusses problems with Western countries exporting surveillance technology to the Middle East, where this technology is used to monitor and track activists.
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By: Matt Lavigueur
Date: 06 Sep 2011
Kazakhstan closes 50 more foreign sites, claiming that they promote religious extremism and terrorism. These are the latest shutdowns in Kazakhastan's crackdown on "religious extremist" foreign sites.
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By: Matt Lavigueur
Date: 06 Sep 2011
Close to 300,000 Iranian IP addresses attempted to access google.com using a rogue certificate issued by Dutch digital certificate authority DigiNotar. Personal data from these IP addresses was likely compromised. The certificate has since been revoked.
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By: Matt Lavigueur
Date: 06 Sep 2011
Putin states that although the government has the power to implement Internet controls, it would be morally wrong to do so, likely in an attempt to assuage fears of an Internet crackdown in Russia.
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By: Matt Lavigueur
Date: 02 Sep 2011
Chinese citizens angered as the government takes aim at popular microblogging service Weibo. Recently unnerved by Weibo-led protests and online criticism, the Chinese government has urged the service to shut down accounts spreading "toxic rumors."
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By: Matt Lavigueur
Date: 02 Sep 2011
Explores the connection between the use of repressive filtration and censorship technologies and Western corporatism. Western surveillance technologies could be undermining Internet freedom.
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By: Matt Lavigueur
Date: 01 Sep 2011
Syrian and Iranian governments manipulate social media, targeting opposition groups and activists online.
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By: Matt Lavigueur
Date: 31 Aug 2011
EFF indicates its support for the Agence Tunisienne d'Internet (ATI)in opposing Tunisian courts which have tried to further implement censorship. Most recently, the ATI has decided to appeal a recent court decision to block pornographic material in Tunisia to the country's highest courts.
