Source: Internews
The Global Digital Download is a weekly publication that aggregates resources on Internet freedom, highlighting trends in digital and social media that intersect with freedom of expression, policy, privacy, censorship and new technologies.
Tag Archives: Censorship
Internews’ Global Digital Download
May 10, 2012 – 2:41 am
Tor Project’s new tool aims to map out Internet censorship
April 30, 2012 – 3:46 pm
Source: Andy Greenberg, Forbes
For years, the non-profit Tor Project has offered Internet users the world’s most secure tool for dodging censorship and surveillance, used by tens of millions of people around the world.
The challenges of censorship detection
April 30, 2012 – 3:39 pm
Source: Ryan Budish, Google Policy by the Numbers
It turns out that identifying Internet censorship, filtering or other web blockages is much more challenging.
EFF White Paper: Time for technology companies to stand up for human rights
April 18, 2012 – 9:32 am
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
In a white paper released today entitled “Human Rights and Technology Sales,” EFF outlines how corporations can avoid assisting repressive regimes.
The not-so-great firewall of China
April 17, 2012 – 9:23 am
Source: Rebecca MacKinnon, Foreign Policy
Every news organization needs a social media strategy. Even China’s government-controlled Xinhua News Agency now “tweets” news bulletins through Twitter-like microblogs called weibo — through which more than 300 million users share details of their daily lives, jokes, gossip, and news.
Citizen Lab part of global coalition calling for official withdrawal of Pakistan censorship plans
April 11, 2012 – 2:19 pm
Citizen Lab joined a global coalition of NGOs to call for the withdrawal of censorship plans in Pakistan.
Towards an Internet free of censorship in Latin America
March 24, 2012 – 5:44 pm
The global debate over Internet regulation has evolved from the initial question over whether any regulation is necessary and desirable to questions whose answers depend on context and where they are being asked.
Ferrari crash on Sina Weibo: List of banned terms
March 20, 2012 – 6:45 pm
Source: China Digital Times
As rumors of the mysterious Ferrari crash have been circulating in cyberspace, CDT staff conducted an independent test on Sina Weibo and uncovered a brief list of banned search terms that are directly related to the crash.
How to avoid Twitter censorship
March 16, 2012 – 10:58 pm
Source: John Flanagan, Wired
Twitter has always had an obligation to remove illegal content; their new policy simply ensures prohibited tweets disappear only within the borders of the offended country.
Iran’s censors tighten grip
March 16, 2012 – 9:37 pm
Source: Farnaz Fassihi, The Wall Street Journal
Iran hasn’t been shy about its bids to monitor, filter and block content on the Internet. Now it has taken the next leap, turning online censorship into an institution.
