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The is a crucial year for the Internet in Europe, because 2017 will see key decisions made about the shape of copyright law in the EU. Tha...

This is getting boring. Every time Techdirt writes about Russian Internet blocking, it's along the lines of: "just when we th...

We've written a number of times of the various ways in which China tries to police its online world. These include punishing individu...

It is neither a secret nor much of a surprise that China keeps its media under tight control . But one knock-on consequence of its rise ...

Back in April, we noted that the Canadian government has been trying to muzzle various groups in the country, including librarians and ...

Last week we wrote about China's worrying new censorship approach, which threatens up to three years in prison for those spreading...

As we've noted before, the online community is kept on a pretty tight leash in China, with information deemed subversive or just emba...

Now that Sarkozy has been thrown out of office, France is no longer producing the steady stream of bad proposals for the Internet that it...

Australia goes to the polls this weekend, and the likely winner quietly added Net censorship to its platform , as spotted by ZDNet:  On...

Some stories, you just couldn't make up. Like this one, reported on the UK site Reprieve, about a failed attempt to pass some reading...

As more and more countries start introducing Web blocks, some people console themselves with the "at least there's always Tor...

The use of Web blocks -- usually " for the children " -- is becoming depressingly common these days. So much so, that many ...

Techdirt has run a number of posts about David Cameron's dangerous plans to apply default online censorship and make porn opt-in in t...

As Tim Cushing has noted , David Cameron's half-baked plan to make online pornography opt-in in the UK has continued to earn him ri...

A year ago, we wrote about a Russian law that introduced a blacklist designed to block access to information on drugs, suicide and chi...

Yesterday I wrote about the slide into censorship and self-censorship that the UK government's misbegotten plans to impose a defaul...

Unless you have been living under the proverbial rock, you will have heard and probably read plenty about the UK government's grandst...

Overblocking is not a new problem -- over two years ago, Techdirt wrote about an instance where Homeland Security took down 84,000 innocen...

It will hardly come as a surprise to anyone to learn that a popular writer and well-known critic of China's pervasive censorship sys...

Last month, Techdirt wrote about the requirement for librarians employed by the Canadian government to self-censor their opinions, even...