Shadowy forces controlling online conversations
IT was perhaps a bit unfortunate, but in October, about a hundred journalists, civil rights advocates and representatives from non-governmental organisations, Internet rights activists, academics...
Posts Tagged: "Censorship"
COSTCO Bans D’Sousa’s Book Because it is Critical of Obama
The retail giant Costco Wholesale has issued an order to remove all copies of Dinesh D’Souza’s bestselling book,...
Make them forget: How ‘irrelevant’ news disappears from Google searches
The fallout of the EU’s ‘Right to be Forgotten’ ruling has impacted a number of European news publications...
FCC denies plans to kill net neutrality
The chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission is attempting to refute recent reports that suggest that the FCC is on track to terminate...
The Government is Silencing Twitter and Yahoo, and It Won’t Tell Us Why
By Bennett Stein The government is using shaky legal arguments to silence major Internet companies without giving them...
Google accuses Turkey of blocking access by ‘DNS interception’
US web giant Google has accused Turkish internet providers of mimicking their Domain Name System (DNS) service, citing...
GodLikeProductions Massive IP Ban?
Has anyone noticed lately the massive IP Address Ban on Godlikeproductions.com? I know this because they have banned all my Ip's including my newly setup...
Google scrubs evidence of military intelligence partnerships from the web
Last week the website Pando.com wrote an article about how google is partnering up with various military contractors,...
Twitter sues Turkey over service ban
Twitter has filed lawsuits in several Turkish courts to challenge an access ban on its service recently pushed...
Obama administration censoring records more than ever before
Despite promising he’d preside over the most transparent administration in United States history, President Barack Obama’s White House...
U.S. to relinquish remaining control over the Internet
By Craig Timberg U.S. officials announced plans Friday to relinquish federal government control over the administration of the Internet, a move that pleased international critics...
Sir Tim Berners-Lee: World wide web needs bill of rights
The inventor of the world wide web has marked the 25th anniversary of his creation by calling for...
The FCC Plan To Police The Newsrooms
The FCC has cooked up a plan to place "researchers" in U.S. newsrooms, supposedly to learn all about...
Key provision of net-neutrality law struck down by court
Should internet service providers be allowed to restrict access to websites and block certain content from customers depending on how much they pay to be...
Russia to block websites that call for rioting, ‘extremism’ without court ruling
Russia’s lawmakers have passed a bill authorizing prosecutors to issue emergency orders without a court ruling that block...
Google and YouTube Suppress Controversial 9/11 Truth Videos and News
By Elizabeth Woodworth Introduction With polls consistently showing that approximately 50% of Canadians and Americans doubt the official...
TED talks now routinely censoring scientists who share ideas on consciousness
by Mike Adams The "TED talks" organization, once founded on the idea of spreading good ideas, has become the new priesthood of status quo dogma....
Pirate Bay decade: Fighting censorship, copyright monopolies bit by bit
Ten years on, The Pirate Bay has made it clear that no laws in the world can shut...
A New “451” Error Message Would Tell Users When Governments Are Blocking Websites
By Meghan Neal If you don't think book burning is a fair analogy for blocked websites, may I...
Pirate Bay launches easy anti-censorship browser
The Pirate Bay has released a self-configured browser package, which allows users to skate around the anti-piracy censorship...
British Library Network Blocks ‘Hamlet’ For ‘Violent Content’
techdirt.com The use of Web blocks — usually “for the children” — is becoming depressingly common these days. So much so, that many people have...
UK ‘Porn’ Filter Will Also Blacklist Non-Porn Websites
Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com The blacklist of banned websites set to be included in the UK’s new “porn...
US Army restricts access to Guardian website over secrets in NSA leak stories
The US Army confirmed on Thursday that access to The Guardian newspaper’s website has been filtered and restricted...
Facebook Censoring Anonymous Message About The NSA Spying Program
Anonymous released a statement about the recent info found on the PRISM spying operation by the NSA. Now if you tried to post this on...