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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]
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]
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]
News The proposal drew criticism from civil liberties advocates, who said it presents enough ambiguities to prompt self-censorship of web content. Operators of commercial websites with sexually explicit content would have to post warning labels on each...
[15 Jun 2006]
News Google's opposition raised eyebrows last month after it stood up to the US government but capitulated to censorship demands from China's ruling Communist Party. Google lashed out at the US Justice Department on Friday, saying that a high-profile...
[20 Feb 2006]
News has called for greater understanding of the difficulties companies face in operating in China, particularly regarding the thorny issue of censorship. for failing to attend a meeting on internet censorship.
[13 Feb 2006]
News for declining to appear at a briefing about China's internet censorship and called for a new law to outlaw compliance with such requirements. Representative Christopher Smith, the New Jersey Republican who chairs the subcommittee holding the 15...
[02 Feb 2006]
News Under fire after censoring a Chinese blogger, Microsoft on Tuesday announced a new policy for dealing with government requests to block content that violates local laws. Microsoft's new MSN Spaces policy states the company will remove content only...
[01 Feb 2006]
News A day after Google's buggy censorship of sites for Chinese-users was revealed, the search giant has responded by fixing its filters so topics such as beer and jokes are no longer deleted. You're caving in to censorship that you in your heart of...
[30 Jan 2006]
News Allen urged all internet companies to "resist the Chinese government's censorship pressure, which is a violation of internationally recognised rights of free expression". Amnesty International has hit out at Google over the search giant's agreement...
[27 Jan 2006]
News Google representatives responded to queries by saying some website blockages are human errors that should be expected when any new service is introduced, and others represent a concerted attempt to comply with Chinese censorship laws.
[27 Jan 2006]
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