censorship
RSS censorshipLeader: Who wants to test bloggers' new 'dodge jail' measures?
Leader Free-speech advocates at French organisation Reporters Without Borders have compiled a booklet to inform bloggers and journalists in countries with heavy-handed censorship how to get their message out safely. [23 Sep 2005]
Yahoo! yields to Chinese Web laws
News has defended its decision to sign-up to a framework of voluntary content limitations in China, a move that critics say opens the door to online censorship by the web portal. If this called for a form of self-censorship beyond laws that exist in... [15 Aug 2002]
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 Pain, who added that... [08 Nov 2006]
Bloggers get a helping handbook
News The 87-page booklet, titled The Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents, includes chapters on how to blog anonymously and on technical ways to get around censorship. US journalist Dan Gillmor, Canadian specialist in internet censorship Nart... [23 Sep 2005]
Leader: Should businesses fight ethical battles?
Leader The software giant has neither confirmed nor denied this censorship but has given some woolly, non-committal statements that it abides by the regulations of the countries in which it operates. But any company that makes political statements... [13 Jun 2005]
The best of 'Reader Comments': Tackling online child porn
Comment Censorship would be preventing publishing elsewhere. Not a censorship issue? This is not a censorship issue society has to have some boundaries of acceptable behaviour in the protection of children. Choosing not to allow something to be published... [23 Feb 2001]
Pressure groups hold Snooping Bill summit
News Organisations include Amnesty International, the Broadcasting Union (BECTU), Campaign against the arms trade, Cyber Rights & Cyber Liberties, Feminists against censorship, Index on Censorship, the Law Society, Liberty, the Library Association... [05 Jul 2000]
Google's Chinese firewall blocks more than Yahoo!
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]
16 March: The most important day in e-tail history?
News However, some companies may have reservations about launching into an online market which has gained negative press in recent years for heavy censorship and tight government control. But Idler is not anticipating problems with censorship with the... [10 Mar 2003]
Google slammed for censoring its Chinese sites
News Google is not the only US search firm targeted with complaints about censorship in China. Angered by such reports, some politicians have threatened to pass laws restricting US companies from co-operating with the Chinese government on censorship. [25 Jan 2006]
Protect the net from UN menace, says US senator
News But he ventured even further by warning that if governance functions were handed to bureaucrats from oppressive nations, the internet would become "an instrument of censorship and political suppression". [19 Oct 2005]
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) has repeated its assertion that ISPs should... [12 Jul 2007]
The Bloor Perspective: PeopleSoft success, Taliban bans, and confessions of a GPRS user
Comment China, having introduced draconian censorship measures at the beginning of this year, last week closed down 2,000 cyber cafes and made another 6,000 suspend business until they conformed with changes. [30 Jul 2001]
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. Censorship is an emotive subject and we are strongly committed to... [25 Oct 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 09.09.05
Round-Up claim it has overstepped the mark in aiding the arrest of a journalist and doing favours for a government renowned and reviled for its heavy-handed censorship of the media. collaborates enthusiastically with the Chinese regime in questions of... [09 Sep 2005]
