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News The Paris-based advocacy group Reporters Without Borders last week called reform proposals alarming and asked: "Do we really want the countries that censor the internet and jail cyber-dissidents to be in charge of the online flow of information?
[30 Oct 2006]
News The firewall, which uses routers supplied by Cisco, works in part by inspecting web traffic for certain keywords the Chinese government wish to censor, including political ideologies and groups it finds unacceptable.
[04 Jul 2006]
News For their part, major broadband providers have repeatedly pledged not to block traffic or censor websites. Some of the largest hardware makers in the world, including 3M, Cisco, Corning and Qualcomm, sent a letter to Congress on Wednesday firmly...
[18 May 2006]
News It's also raised eyebrows because Google chose to co-operate with a demand by the Chinese government to censor searches on the company's Google.cn site. US District Judge James Ware said he intends to release his decision "very quickly", and that...
[15 Mar 2006]
News In the end, however, the biggest applause of the day went to Wales, who said, in response to a question about Google's recent expansion into China and its decision to censor its Chinese site, that Wikipedia would not follow the search engine giant...
[14 Mar 2006]
News chose to censor their search results for Chinese users. Google lashed out at the US Justice Department on Friday, saying that a high-profile request for a list of a week's worth of search terms must not be granted because it would disclose trade...
[20 Feb 2006]
News Earlier this year, rival search engine Google came under fire for launching search and news websites in China that censor material deemed objectionable to authorities there. Yahoo! has called for greater understanding of the difficulties companies...
[13 Feb 2006]
News It's another thing to become an agent of a government and censor an entire blogger's work. Under fire after censoring a Chinese blogger, Microsoft on Tuesday announced a new policy for dealing with government requests to block content that violates...
[01 Feb 2006]
News Google said on Tuesday it would launch versions of its search and news websites in China that censor material deemed objectionable to authorities there, reasoning that users getting limited access to content was better than no access.
[25 Jan 2006]
News It's also suggested US corporations come up with a joint plan for how to handle censorship requests from foreign governments, including refusal to censor terms such as "democracy" and "human rights". are abiding by Chinese law mandating internet...
[13 Jan 2006]
News Free-speech advocate Reporters Without Borders has published a guide for blogging in China, Iran and other countries that strictly censor the web. The 87-page booklet, titled The Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents, includes chapters on how...
[23 Sep 2005]
News The drama is the latest in a spate of moves by the Chinese government to censor certain areas of the internet. Microsoft may have banned the words 'democracy' and 'freedom' from the Chinese version of its MSN website.
[13 Jun 2005]
News MCI also says that it does not censor the content of its customer websites. The London Internet Exchange (LINX) has threatened tough action after MCI, a prominent ISP, was accused of hosting a bulk mailing software application called Send Safe.
[14 Feb 2005]
News and Google - of deliberately conspiring to censor the web. Google doesn't censor its own search results, however, except in cases where there are legal issues - such as prohibiting racist sites turning up on French and German users' screens.
[27 Jul 2004]
News The British Library will not censor the material because it does not want to restrict what people can find out about in the future. A trial project to archive 6,000 UK websites was announced on Tuesday by the UK Web Archiving Consortium.
[25 Jun 2004]
News Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and Cisco are among major IT vendors slammed by Amnesty International for contributing to human-rights abuses by selling technology to the Chinese government that is used to censor the internet.
[02 Feb 2004]
News Authorities in Pakistan are banking on self-censorship to weed out internet pornography in the conservative Muslim nation. The country plans to soon develop content-filtering software to stop its one million internet users from accessing adult...
[04 Jul 2003]
News Internet guru Vint Cerf has called on citizens to accept responsibility for determining the accuracy and truth of information published online. In his foreword to the latest Reporters Without Borders report on the state of internet censorship, The...
[23 Jun 2003]
News We do not want to act as a judge or a censor, but for too long ISPs have hidden behind a thin shroud that as the issue of responsibility has not been resolved the industry should do nothing. This is the first such public action by a British ISP.
[20 Feb 2001]
News Despite a knee-jerk reaction that seemed as misinformed as it was well-intended both the Guardian and the Telegraph report that the government intends to continue with plans to censor the content ISPs can host.
[23 Jan 2001]
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