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By: Jane Abell
Date: 28 Jul 2011
A U.S.-based Internet tracking company says Burma was the top source of global Internet attacks during the first quarter of this year.
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By: Jane Abell
Date: 28 Jul 2011
A UK judge has ordered British Telecom (BT) to block access to filesharing web site Newzbin2.
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By: Jane Abell
Date: 27 Jul 2011
@exiledsurfer censored? ArtificialEyes.tv, the website and blog operated by artist and “Wikivisionary” Michael Parenti, appears to have been blocked and censored on at least one U.S. government computer network.
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By: Jane Abell
Date: 27 Jul 2011
The United Nations Human Rights Committee confirmed the central role of freedom of expression in human rights, making it clear that it can only be limited in the most exceptional circumstances, and calling for the first time for unrestricted public access to official information.
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By: Jane Abell
Date: 27 Jul 2011
The government of Indonesia, through Information and Communication Minister Tifatul Sembiring, is planning to block music or movie websites offering free downloads, which can be easily found in the internet.
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By: Jane Abell
Date: 26 Jul 2011
Days after the bombing and shootings in Oslo, politicians and police around Europe say they want increased Internet monitoring. Officials from Finland, Estonia and Germany have all called for expanded monitoring powers.
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By: Jane Abell
Date: 26 Jul 2011
Book banning has long been a controversial issue in the nation's schools. Now some educators say banned websites pose as great a threat to kids' education and intellectual freedom.
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By: Jane Abell
Date: 26 Jul 2011
In Pakistan, where the openness of the internet has been threatened regularly for more than half a decade, new developments are quickly noticed by the country's online populace.
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By: Jane Abell
Date: 26 Jul 2011
As Google rolls out its Google+ social network, it is struggling with the same questions about identity that have caused problems for Facebook in the past: namely, how much should it force people to use their “real” names?
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By: Jane Abell
Date: 26 Jul 2011
Copyright holding groups are always coming up with creative ideas for the classification and ranking of content...Why not ask search engines to attach "red light" symbols next to sites categorized as a "risk" and put green ticks next to sites deemed safer? That's exactly what a United Kingdom music copyright royalty collection organization proposes.
