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Inbox: Who's to blame for snail's pace broadband?
Comment I'm sorry but that is against free speech, it is censorship and having "a place governments cannot reach" is a good thing, those that disagree should take a long look at what China does with internet access to stifle... [12 Jan 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.04.08
Round-Up Probably eager to avoid being smitten with the Sword of Ultimate Smiting, Congresswoman Jane Harman said: "I am not advocating censorship. However, as it happens, the rather strange but law-abiding denizens of Second... [04 Apr 2008]
The Brampton Factor: Chinese whispers
Comment There is also a continual rumble of criticism of China's regard for internet censorship. Like most censorship, Chinese efforts on the internet appear to be erratic and inconsistent.... [25 Oct 2007]
Editor's Blog: Burmese days on the internet
Comment When commentators have in the past talked about net censorship in other countries - notably the 'great firewall of China' - the emphasis has been on the control the government can exert and how Western comms... [27 Sep 2007]
Podcast: The Weekly Round-Up 24.08.07
Round-Up Podcast Up for discussion this week: the battle of the sexes in IT, tech-savvy youngsters who can't read or write, biodegradable hardware, chip and bin anarchy and Wikipedia censorship. Host Sylvia Carr is joined by Natasha... [24 Aug 2007]
ISPs: 'Don't blame us for illegal activity'
News What we wouldn't want is corporate censorship. Any kind of censorship of the internet has to be at the government level - ISPs are not law enforcement. The Internet Service Providers' Association (Ispa)... [12 Jul 2007]
In Brief: Apple gets social, YouTube goes mobile, Yahoo! upholds censorship and IT disappoints
News At the company's AGM yesterday proposals to oppose internet censorship or set up a human rights committee to review such practices were both defeated. Apple is expected to announce a deal today to sell iTunes music... [13 Jun 2007]
Net censorship on the rise
News Government censorship of internet content is widespread and on the rise. Twenty-five out of 41 governments studied block or filter internet content, according to a survey carried out by OpenNet Initiative (ONI), which is... [18 May 2007]
Enemies of the internet named and shamed
News The first is the level of online censorship. Libya, the Maldives and Nepal were removed from the list this year as a result of fact-finding missions that revealed there were no longer any jailed cyber-dissidents, said... [08 Nov 2006]
Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Eric Schmidt
News While few people feel much sympathy for the Redmond behemoth, Google has also seen its public image take a battering this past year over issues as diverse as web censorship in China and the protection of its brand name... [21 Sep 2006]
Web smut labelling plan still on cards
News This is not censorship. The US Department of Justice has stepped up its defence of a proposal to imprison website operators who don't label pages containing sexually explicit material. The idea, outlined in an April... [19 Sep 2006]
Google gets political
News at a well-publicised February hearing in which a House of Representatives panel lashed out at the companies' alleged compliance with the Chinese government's censorship regime. Just in time for November elections in the... [19 Sep 2006]
CIO Jury: Corporate blogs more than a fad
News He said: "The real dilemma that we faced, as do all corporate blogs, is the issue of censorship, moderation, PR and the shades of grey between these three states. Corporate blogs can be a useful communication and... [08 Sep 2006]
China's internet revolution
Comment Our model on censorship is no different to foreign media in China. One word that seems synonymous with the internet in China in the Western media is censorship. Erisman says: "I don't spend any time... [21 Jul 2006]
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! slammed over China
News betrayed their values and colluded with government censorship in China in pursuit of lucrative revenue opportunities, according to human rights charity Amnesty International. The Amnesty report said: "All three companies... [20 Jul 2006]
