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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 Life (no, not these guys...
[04 Apr 2008]
News said in late March it was setting up a human-rights fund to help victims of government censorship. Yahoo! chief executive Jerry Yang, whose company helped identify a Chinese dissident who was later jailed, said yesterday that legal "grey areas...
[04 Apr 2008]
News Congresswoman Jane Harman said: "I am not advocating censorship. Second Life founder Philip Rosedale and a handful of other virtual-reality experts, testified yesterday at a House of Representatives hearing that was also attended by online personas...
[02 Apr 2008]
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. Censorship is an emotive subject and we are strongly committed to...
[25 Oct 2007]
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 equipment-makers appear only too happy...
[27 Sep 2007]
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 Lomas, Steve Ranger and Tim...
[24 Aug 2007]
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) has repeated its assertion that ISPs should...
[12 Jul 2007]
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 through the Bebo social...
[13 Jun 2007]
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 made up of groups at...
[18 May 2007]
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 Pain, who added that...
[08 Nov 2006]
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 in the 'to google or not to...
[21 Sep 2006]
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 speech by attorney general...
[19 Sep 2006]
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 US, Google confirmed on...
[19 Sep 2006]
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 collaboration tool but businesses...
[08 Sep 2006]
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 worrying about censorship.
[21 Jul 2006]
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 have in different ways...
[20 Jul 2006]
News Computer experts from the University of Cambridge claim not only to have breached the Great Firewall of China but to have found a way to use the firewall to launch denial of service attacks against specific IP addresses in the country.
[04 Jul 2006]
Comment Porter Erisman, an Alibaba VP, talks about censorship but says the benefits of providing internet services in China outweigh the negatives of having to conform. In May 2006, silicon.com senior reporter Dan Ilett travelled to China, seeking to get...
[29 Jun 2006]
Comment There's still censorship though. This is his warts-and-all diary, which appears daily this month. For in-depth coverage of this fact-finding trip inside China, including analysis and exclusive stories, click here.
[20 Jun 2006]
Cheat Sheet Democrat congressmen and senators, believing that it will create a new form of 21st century monopoly and censorship, tabled an amendment that would enshrine "net neutrality". What's this net neutrality fuss all about?
[16 Jun 2006]
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