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In the past, Iran has provided plenty of light relief here on Techdirt, whether because of plans to build its own Internet , or thanks to ...

Last week, Techdirt wrote about a US teenager being banned from using the Internet until his 21st birthday as punishment for his involv...

As people wake up to the full horror of what SOPA would do to the Internet and its users, an increasing number of organizations with very ...

Here's a nice little moral fable. Lake Baikal is a wonder, the world's oldest and deepest lake, with many unique species. But Vlad...

Last month, Viviane Reding ruffled a few feathers when she stated that “Internet access is a fundamental right”. As it happens, I'd writ...

Usually, I attack copyright on very general grounds - it's a monopoly, it's locking up knowledge, blah-blah-blah. But here's a ...

Simon Phipps points out the centrality of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: This document is one of the most important documents c...

When is this apology for an international body going to sort itself out - or be shut down? The World Bank has been in a hurry to get its Fo...

Deep, if dark, essay on the deep malaise at the heart of British politics, and the rise of the database state: A threefold process unfolded...

Baidu.com , Google 's main rival in China, has launched its own version of Wikipedia (called Baidu Baike ). It turns out that Baidu...