censorship
RSS censorshipYahoo! speaks out on Chinese censorship
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]
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 made up of groups at... [18 May 2007]
Symantec supports Chinese web censorship
News The move raises the question of whether antivirus technology should be used to support government censorship. Symantec's Norton AntiVirus product has blacklisted a piece of software which enables users in China to access websites which are blocked... [16 Sep 2004]
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 through the Bebo social... [13 Jun 2007]
Copyright And Censorship: Past As Prologue?
White Paper In this way, private censorship is avoided. Copyright and free expression principles are, in the mainstream view, in harmony because copyright protection is only available to the "expression" of authors, and not to the "ideas" or information the... [24 Feb 2004]
Vietnamese face Internet censorship
News The Vietnamese Government has set up an Internet censorship system designed to filter access to 'officially undesirable' Web sites. Users here say that 'Big Brother' style censorship extends to e-mails too. [07 Oct 1998]
Tech giants attacked for web censorship stance
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]
China: Web censorship gives US pause for thought
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]
UK keeps global net censorship ticking over
News Far from being a haven for civil liberties and free speech, it seems the web is now prey to increasing monitoring and restrictions, according to a global study into internet censorship released today. [19 Sep 2003]
US netizens in favour of government web censorship
News By Lisa M Bowman Americans don't seem to care if the US government removes public information from the internet in the name of national security, according to a new study examining web habits one year after the 11 September attacks. [09 Sep 2002]
Lord Chancellor denies Web site censorship
News The Lord Chancellor's office has refuted suggestions that it demanded the closure of a Web site set up to criticise five judges. The site, hosted by Kingston Communications, was set up by James Hilbert and featured an open letter he wrote to... [09 Nov 1999]
Publius: a Robust, Tamper-Evident, Censorship-Resistant Web Publishing System
White Paper We describe a system that we have designed and implemented for publishing content on the web. Our publishing scheme has the property that it is very difficult for any adversary to censor or modify the content. [24 Feb 2004]
Microsoft feels the heat in web censorship row
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]
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 have in different ways... [20 Jul 2006]
Google tweaks its Chinese search filters
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]
