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20 July 2013
Double Blow Against Freedom Of Speech For Twitter Users In Turkey
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Techdirt has written a few times about Turkey's difficult relationship with new technology. Unfortunately, it looks like that now...
Leading Italian Film Producer Calls For $16 Billion Lawsuit Against Italian State For Alleged Inaction Against Piracy
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Last year we wrote about EMI suing the Irish government for having the temerity not to pass a SOPA-Like censorship law. That truly ex...
31 March 2013
Canadian Librarians 'Owe Duty Of Loyalty To The Government,' Must Self-Censor Opinions Even In Private
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Librarians can play an important role in any society that depends increasingly on access to information to function. One of their jobs ...
UK Politician Hates the (Digital) Environment
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A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how the irony-immune IT department of the European Parliament was censoring emails complaining abou...
What the EU Pornography Ban is Really About
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It began last week, with an article by the Pirate Party MEP Christian Engström, who wrote about a vote that will take place in the Europ...
European Parliament Considers Banning All Pornography, Blocks Emails From EU Citizens Protesting Against Censorship
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A few weeks ago we wrote about Iceland's thoroughly daft idea of trying to block porn there. Bad proposals for the Internet always ...
17 March 2013
France Considers Operating System-Level Filtering
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Long-time readers will remember the appalling way in which the UK' s Digital Economy Act was brought in - with no research, no debate...
10 March 2013
Bizarre: Indian Government Orders Censorship Of One Its Own Sites
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Techdirt has been tracking for some time the worrying moves in India that have involved censoring the Twitter accounts of journalists and...
09 March 2013
China's Censorship Hits Internet Users In Other Countries
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It's hardly a surprise these days that Chinese Internet companies routinely self-censor what appears on their services: the world kno...
11 February 2013
Another Terrible Idea From Russia: Using Whitelists To Control Access To The Internet
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Techdirt has been reporting on a steady stream of bad tech ideas coming out of Russia, including content monitoring , banning children f...
10 February 2013
Russian Ministry Of Culture Publishes Draft Anti-Piracy Law; Requires Takedowns Within 24 Hours
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Presumably as part of the overall agreement for Russia to be allowed to join the WTO , the Ministry of Culture there has published a dra...
UK Mobile Operator 3UK Filtering New Class Of 'Mature Content', Including Political Satire
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Smartphones have some big advantages: they offer considerable computing power in a highly-portable form, and are available at prices tha...
Web Blocking's Slippery Slope: It's Never 'Just' One Site
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Even against a background of repeated attempts to censor the Net, it's still possible to become a little complacent about some of the...
Church Site Blocked By Mobile Networks, Classified Under 'Alcohol'
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Against a background of the UK government teetering on the brink of imposing an opt-out Web filter "for the children", here'...
06 January 2013
Israeli Bill Would Allow Secret Courts To Issue Confidential Warrants To Block Web Sites Allegedly Involved In Copyright Infringement
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One of the most depressing developments in recent years has been the gradual adoption of legal approaches to tackling copyright infringem...
Philippine Government Ignores Public Concerns, Continues To Push Extreme 'Cybercrime' Law
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One of the striking -- and depressing -- features of the Internet today is the almost universal desire of governments around the world to...
To Avoid Controversy, 'Realtime' Microblogging In China Now Delayed By 7 Days
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Despite increasing competition around the world, China remains the leader when it comes to finding ways to censor the online world. A fe...
European Court Of Human Rights Reinforces Right To Access Online Content
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Back in 2010, Techdirt reported on Turkey's habit of blocking Google over certain holdings on its various sites. Mostly these were Y...
08 December 2012
Russia Blacklists Cultural Wiki Without Explanation, Site Just Moves To Circumvent Block
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Techdirt has been following the worsening censorship situation in Russia for some time. Back in July, the country's parliament passe...
11 November 2012
Bangladesh Seeks To Throttle Independent News Sites And Their Awkward Stories
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One of the great things about online news sites is that they are so easy to set up: you don't need a printing press or huge numbers o...
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