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By: Rebekah Heacock
Date: 12 May 2011
Google is taking issue with India’s new Internet regulations, according to a recently obtained memo.
The rules, enacted last month, require that websites remove all objectionable material, including anything “grossly harmful, harassing, blasphemous,” “ethnically objectionable,” “disparaging” or that impersonates another person. Internet service providers and social networks are required to bar certain kinds of content in their terms of service contracts with users, and websites must remove within 36 hours all content that authorities identify as objectionable.
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By: Rebekah Heacock
Date: 12 May 2011
The United States is playing a game of "cat and mouse" on the web, funding new technology aimed at breaking internet censorship in repressive regimes including China and Iran, officials have said.
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By: Rebekah Heacock
Date: 12 May 2011
The 2011-2012 Australian federal budget ends grants for the Voluntary Internet Filtering Grants Program to save $9.6 million over three years. Labor Party still plans to move forward with mandatory ISP-level Internet filtering.
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By: Rebekah Heacock
Date: 12 May 2011
The U.S. Government is determined to put an end to online piracy. In an attempt to give copyright holders and the authorities all the tools required to disable access to so-called rogue sites, lawmakers will soon introduce the PROTECT IP Act. Through domain seizures, ISP blockades, search engine censorship, and cutting funding of allegedly copyright infringing websites, the bill takes Internet censorship to the next level.
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By: Rebekah Heacock
Date: 12 May 2011
A new bill that is yet to be introduced to the US Congress would, if passed, give both the Justice Department and private copyright holders the ability to cripple websites they can prove is "dedicated to infringing activities."
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By: Rebekah Heacock
Date: 11 May 2011
Surprise! After months in the oven, the soon-to-be-released new version of a major US Internet censorship bill didn't shrink in scope—it got much broader. Under the new proposal, search engines, Internet providers, credit card companies, and ad networks would all have cut off access to foreign "rogue sites"—and such court orders would not be limited to the government. Private rightsholders could go to court and target foreign domains, too.
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By: Rebekah Heacock
Date: 11 May 2011
THE US plans to pump millions of dollars into new technology to break through internet censorship overseas amid a heightened crackdown on dissent in China.
State Department officials said they would give $US19 million ($17.56 million) to efforts to evade internet controls in China, Iran and other authoritarian states that block online access to politically sensitive material.
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By: Rebekah Heacock
Date: 10 May 2011
Tunisian protesters, web dissidents and journalists are wondering if the bad old days have returned after criticisms of the interim government were met with police attacks and renewed online censorship.
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By: Rebekah Heacock
Date: 10 May 2011
THE Gillard government will scrap its voluntary internet filtering grants program to save $9.6 million over three years.
A combination of reasons led to the decision, including moves by Telstra, Optus and Primus to voluntarily block child abuse websites.
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By: Rebekah Heacock
Date: 10 May 2011
According to reports in the Hürriyet Daily News of Turkey, the country’s authorities are creating legislation that would require its Internet users to choose one of four content-filtering packages. Critics say this is unconstitutional and violates the right to freedom of expression.
