Showing posts with label russia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label russia. Show all posts
26 July 2014

Now That The NSA Has Made It The Norm, Total Surveillance During The Sochi Olympic Games Is No Longer Noteworthy

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In addition to being an opportunity to stretch copyright and trademark rules way beyond the law, over the years, the Olympics has also b...

NSA Spying Fallout Hits French Satellite Deal

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Techdirt has already noted how the NSA's massive spying programs around the world are costing US companies money through lost busine...
25 July 2014

Russian Authorities Threaten To Block CloudFlare And Other Key Infrastructural Sites

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This is getting boring. Every time Techdirt writes about Russian Internet blocking, it's along the lines of: "just when we th...
24 July 2014

Russia's Leading Social Network VKontakte Cleared Of Copyright Infringement

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VKontakte is not only the largest social networking site in Russia, but is also one of the biggest unauthorized repositories of copyright...
24 November 2013

Russia Plans To Launch Sputnik Again -- This Time As A Search Engine

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Techdirt has been reporting for a while the efforts of the Russian government to bring the Internet there under control . It now seems ...
23 November 2013

Russia's Latest Idea: An Internet Whitelist For Copyright Materials

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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...
27 October 2013

Russia Prepares To Block Tor And Anonymizing Proxies

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

As Russia Expands Its 'Think Of The Children' Laws To Copyright, Agency In Charge Investigated For Infringement

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Last week we wrote about how the Russian equivalent of SOPA had been amended in order to ban swearing online. Although that was worth ...
26 October 2013

Russia To Ban Swearing On The Internet

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

Russia to Ban Swearing Online: UK to Follow?

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Yesterday I wrote about the slide into censorship and self-censorship that the UK government's misbegotten plans to impose a defaul...
19 September 2013

SOPA Didn't Die, It Just Emigrated

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It's hard to believe that the heady times that saw SOPA's rise and fall are only a year and a half ago. Of course, SOPA didn...
20 July 2013

Has Russia's VKontakte Social Network Betrayed Its Users? Or Is It Under Attack For Defending Them?

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We last wrote about the Russian social network site VKontakte , often called "The Facebook of Russia," a year ago. Since then,...
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...
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...
15 July 2012

Russia And China Both Want To 'Protect Children'; Both Want To Do It By Increasing Censorship

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As expected , Russia has passed a law that will allow Web sites to be blacklisted, ostensibly to "protect children". According...
18 April 2012

Russia Takes SOPA-Like Approach In Encouraging ISPs To Spy On Their Users

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Something that's proving popular with politicians running out of ideas for tackling unauthorized sharing of copyright materials online...
23 March 2012

Why is Firefox - and Open Source - a Disaster in China?

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Like many people, I've been tracking the steady ascent of Google Chrome - and corresponding decline of Microsoft's Internet Expl...
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09 November 2011

Russian Internet Content Monitoring System To Go Live In December

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Back in April of this year, the Russian government put out a tender : Last week, Roskomnadzor, Russian Federal Service for Telecoms Supe...
07 October 2011

Microsoft's $844 Million Software Giveaway To Nonprofits: Pure Charity Or Cheap Marketing?

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Microsoft has just released its 2011 Annual Financial Report . But alongside that document's dry facts about its $69.9 billion turnove...