Source: Declan McCullagh, CNet
Google has experienced a precipitous drop in traffic from China, which a Web-monitoring group attributed to the search engine being “blocked” by the government.
Tag Archives: Censorship
Google disrupted in China, once again
November 9, 2012 – 9:39 am
Egyptian prosecutor orders a ban on Internet porn
November 7, 2012 – 10:44 am
Source: Eva Galperin, EFF
On Wednesday, the country’s Prosecutor General, Abdel Maguid Mahmoud, ordered government ministries to enforce a ban on pornographic websites, based on a three-year old ruling by Egypt’s administrative court.
Freedom of expression at the IGF dies a little more with censorship of anti-censorship postcards
November 6, 2012 – 8:57 am
Source: IGF Watch
Today was another dark day for freedom of expression at the IGF, with the heavy-handed intervention of a UN officer to remove postcards with an anti-censorship message.
EU plans groundbreaking project to monitor Internet censorship around the world
November 6, 2012 – 8:38 am
Source: Ryan Gallagher, Slate
Keeping track of the avalanche of reports about new mass surveillance initiatives and Internet freedom crackdowns can be a difficult task. But soon there could be a solution to the problem: a global monitoring system that will help chart digital repression by mapping the Internet’s “cyber geography” in near real time.
Wanted: German security developers for new, homegrown spyware
November 5, 2012 – 8:59 am
Source: Cyrus Farivar, Ars technica
Despite causing a minor political scandal in Germany last year, the government-created “state trojan” program appears to be going strong.
China’s ‘New Manhattan’ becomes censorship capital
November 4, 2012 – 9:05 am
Source: Kathrin Hille, CNBC
A city run by one of China’s incoming political leaders that has billed itself as a future international financial center is instead becoming the country’s internet censorship capital.
Chinese Internet search players sign code of conduct
November 2, 2012 – 8:45 am
Source: Liau Yun Qing, ZD Net
Several Chinese Internet search players have come together under the lead of the Internet Society of China to sign a code of conduct which requires them to self-regulate to protect user rights.
From toys to TV news, jittery Beijing clamps down
November 1, 2012 – 12:34 pm
Source: Andrew Jacobs, The New York Times
A word of advice to anyone hoping to celebrate the gathering of Communist Party apparatchiks who are about to descend on the capital next week to anoint a new generation of Chinese leaders: Leave the balloons at home.
Internet anti-censorship tools are being overwhelmed by demand
October 22, 2012 – 11:55 am
Source: James Ball, The Washington Post
U.S.-funded programs to beat back online censorship are increasingly finding a ready audience in repressive countries, with more than 1 million people a day using online tools to get past extensive blocking programs and government surveillance.
Twitter blocks Germans’ access to neo-Nazi group
October 18, 2012 – 1:51 am
Source: Nicholas Kulish, The New York Times
The move was the first time that Twitter acted on a policy known as “country-withheld content,” announced in January, in which it will block an account at the request of a government.
