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By: Matt Lavigueur
Date: 17 Aug 2011
Chinese censors clamp down on online media following successful environmental protest in Dalian.
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By: Matt Lavigueur
Date: 17 Aug 2011
The UAE has announced plans to begin enforcing legislation targeting the spread of rumours via social media which could land violaters in jail for up to 3 years.
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By: Matt Lavigueur
Date: 16 Aug 2011
US, Australia, UK, all considering online and mobile media control previously criticized by Western countries
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By: Matt Lavigueur
Date: 16 Aug 2011
Cisco is being sued by Chinese political prisoners who claim that Cisco has developed and provided technology for the Chinese government to use in the monitoring and repression of Chinese citizens.
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By: Matt Lavigueur
Date: 15 Aug 2011
British PM David Cameron calls meeting with Twitter, Facebook, Blackberry's Research In Motion (RIM), considers social media ban in the midst of riots
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By: Matt Lavigueur
Date: 15 Aug 2011
BART faces criticism, protest threats from Anonymous following decision to interrupt wireless service in response to plans to organize protests.
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By: Rebekah Heacock
Date: 15 Aug 2011
There hasn't been much to say about the Internet in Libya this summer, as their patterns of connectivity have been fairly stable. It was interesting, therefore, to observe that much of the country's Internet routing has started to show evidence of sporadic failures this week, which have gone unreported in the media.
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By: Jackie Kerr
Date: 12 Aug 2011
The court decision to allow BT to block the 'pirate' site means Hollywood is dictating our internet policy: In a significant test case brought by six major Hollywood studios, the UK's high court has forced BT to block access for its customers to the so-called "pirate" site Newzbin2. This was hailed as a victory for the creative industries. But it was a defeat for the web and British freedom of expression. We now have the tools for state-supported censorship of the internet.
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By: Jackie Kerr
Date: 12 Aug 2011
Peruvians are following the case [es] of blogger and journalist Luis Torres Montero, @Malapalabrero, sued for defamation [es] by former Defense Minister, Rafael Rey, who felt attacked [es] by a column [es] where Torres [es] says Rey is gay [es].
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By: Jackie Kerr
Date: 12 Aug 2011
Anthony Morelli, a 42-year-old divorced father in Pennsylvania embroiled in a bitter custody battle with his former wife, has authored a now-famous blog to badmouth the mother of his children: thepsychoexwife.com. That was before a family court judge told Morelli to take down the four-year-old site this summer. That decision has pleased Morelli’s critics (and his ex-wife), and a lot of media commentators have wondered why Morelli needed a court order in the first place to tell him to do something that seems fairly obviously in the best interests of his children. The problem, though, is that requiring him to shutter thepsychoexwife.com is likely unconstitutional, violating Morelli’s First Amendment right to free speech.
