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  • China Faces U.S. Piracy Lawsuit for Internet-Filtering Software


    China Digital Times (CDT)Authority Authority: 589
    From Bloomberg : China was accused of piracy in a lawsuit filed by a California software maker, which said the Green Dam Youth Escort filtering program installed on personal computers in the country infringes its copyright. Cybersitter LLC, a closely held company, seeks $2.2 billion in damages in a complaint ...
    5 hours ago
  • Cybersieves: Evaluating censorship and filtering


    | OfcomWatch |Authority Authority: 111
    Cybersieves , Derek Bambauer.  Duke Law Journal, Vol 59, No 3, Page 377 (Dec 2009): This Article proposes …  a process-oriented framework to evaluate the legitimacy of Internet filtering. The approach draws upon scholarship in deliberative democracy, health care decision making, labor and environmental law, and ...
    1 day ago
  • Anti-Stephen Conroy website back online


    mUmBRELLAAuthority Authority: 610
    A website that was taken offline by the domain name regulator .au Domain Administration, is now back online and continuing its protest against the Government’s internet filtering policy.   The site Stephenconroy.com.au , which takes aim at the Communications Minister Stephen Conroy for his policy on what it ...
    1 day ago
  • Heady Web Freedom in China as Great Firewall Falls


    China Digital Times (CDT)Authority Authority: 589
    The Los Angeles Times reports on the brief outage of the Great Firewall over the weekend: Cautious excitement spread on some social-networking platforms as hope flared that Internet freedoms suddenly were being expanded after months of intensifying scrutiny. “It’s finally unblocked, reasons unknown,” ...
    1 day ago
  • Algeria censorship


    Virtually IslamicAuthority Authority: 136
    Helmi Noman, ONI, Algeria joins the Internet censors club, 2 Jan 10 "Algeria joins an increasingly expanding list of government Internet censors in the Middle East and North Africa. ONIs in-country tests conducted January 1, 2010 verified that access to the the Web site of the Algerian political movement Rachad ...
    1 day ago
  • The Will of Heaven Once Again Confuses the CCP!


    Under the Jacaranda TreeAuthority Authority: 421
    UPDATE As of 3.30AM Beijing time, GFW is back to normal. YouTube is no longer accessible from behind the Wall. Party is over. As I am writing this blog post, millions of netizens in China are celebrating the unblocking of their favourite websites, including Youtube, Picasa, Bloggers, etc.  Many of these sites ...
    2 days ago
  • iZaobao: See You There, Inside or Outside the Great Firewall


    China Digital Times (CDT)Authority Authority: 589
    iZaobao (Paper of Jujube Lovers) is a popular online publication, known for its witty news selection and humorous comments. Founded by Guangzhou-based blogger Peng Yi (彭毅) in 2005, it has produced over 600 issues and has over 440,000 subscribers. iZaobao was blocked in October but its loyal readers still use ...
    3 days ago
  • China: 5000 arrested for internet pornography


    Index on CensorshipAuthority Authority: 572
    China arrested more than 5000 people in a crackdown on internet pornography in 2009, officials said yesterday vowing tougher online policing in the new year as a key element of “state security”. Officials did not say how many people had subsequently been put on trial. Authorities in December offered rewards of up ...
    3 days ago
  • China Is Losing a War Over Internet


    China Digital Times (CDT)Authority Authority: 589
    Loretta Chao and Jason Dean reports on the Wall Street Journal : That the Internet threatens, fundamentally, the party’s information monopoly is one of the few facts that China’s liberal activists and its government enforcers agree on. In an essay published in December in a government magazine, Minister of ...
    6 days ago
  • Violent radical content on the Internet – first outputs of IIEA study


    Assorted Materials: Johnny RyanAuthority Authority: 99
    As part of the IIEA study on non-legislative measures to prevent the dissemination of violent radical material on the Internet for the European Commission, the following outputs were released in December 2009. The first is a Request For Comments on an initial 56 page overview of the legal environment regulating child ...
    1 week ago
  • Will I be living in China in 2010?


    ThinkingShiftAuthority Authority: 121
    Dear international reader. Here is a question for you: what do Egypt, Iran, China, North Korea, Burma, Saudi Arabia and Australia have in common? Let’s guess. Deserts? Well, Australia has the Gibson desert; Iran has the Kavir desert; China has the Gobi desert; Egypt has the Sahara but North Korea and Burma? Nah, no ...
    1 week ago
  • Inadvertently exposed: the ALP’s obsession with universal censorship


    Somebody Think Of The ChildrenAuthority Authority: 114
    by Jon Seymour When you are a Government of a Western nation about to introduce a mandatory censorship regime unlike anything in the else in the Western world it is a good idea to try to play up comparisons with social democracies like Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland and our Commonwealth cousins the UK and ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Australia: anti-censorship website censored


    Index on CensorshipAuthority Authority: 572
    The Australian internet company, auDA that runs the .com.au domain registry has been accused of censoring a website satirising Australian communications minister Stephen Conroy’s proposed internet censorship laws. On Friday, Sapia Pty Ltd, the company behind the website, was told by auDA that they had three hours ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Internet Regulation Threatens Free Expression


    ResourceShelfAuthority Authority: 631
    Internet Regulation Threatens Free Expression Government regulation of the Internet could “provide the vehicle for advancing new First Amendment theories for media regulation,” warns Robert Corn-Revere in “The First Amendment, the Internet & Net Neutrality: Be Careful What You Wish For,” released today ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Algeria censorship plan


    Virtually IslamicAuthority Authority: 136
    Brian Whitaker, al-bab.com, Algeria to censor internet, 20 Dec 09 "Algeria is planning to introduce a centralised system for filtering (i.e. censoring) the internet. It is also proposing stiff penalties for anyone who circumvents the governments filtering, according to the Magharebia news website."
    2 weeks ago
  • Community Online Calendar – Danville Weekly


    OnlyDedicatedServers.comAuthority Authority: 145
    Community Online Calendar – Danville Weekly An exhibit of Porcelain Art by Eugenia W. Zobel, will be held from 1-6 p.m., until Jan. 28, at Wente Vineyards Estate Winery Gallery, 5565 Tesla Rd., Livermore. The gallery is open during business hours. Visit www.wentevineyards.com. Alamo-Danville Synology Launches ...
    2 weeks ago
  • China’s Domain-Name Limits: Web Censorship?


    China Digital Times (CDT)Authority Authority: 589
    From Time : The year 2009 will not be remembered as the year Chinese censors decided to lighten up. This week, the Chinese agency that oversees the country’s Internet -domain-name registry announced it will limit the system to use by businesses, effectively excluding private citizens from registering new ...
    2 weeks ago
  • National net censorship protests: January 30 2010


    Somebody Think Of The ChildrenAuthority Authority: 114
    Protests against mandatory Internet censorship will be held Australia wide on Saturday January 30, 2010. A Facebook page for the event has been set up, with over 1700 people already confirmed as attending. Specific protest locations are still to be announced, but one is planned for each capital city. I’ll update ...
    2 weeks ago
  • India Joins Censored List On Flickr – Start Of Internet Censorship?


    WATBlog.com - Web, Advertising and Technology Blog in IndiaAuthority Authority: 139
    Well I for one was surprised when I came across this post about India joining the censored list of countries on Flickr . Im not sure how recently this was done but from what I know India was certainly not on the list last year. What this means is that if you access flickr from India you won’t be able to view ...
    2 weeks ago
  • China Imposes New Internet Controls


    NYT > Global HomeAuthority Authority: 149
    The new measures limit ordinary citizens’ ability to set up personal Web sites and to view hundreds of other sites.
    2 weeks ago

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