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North Korean propaganda video shows President Obama and US troops in flames
PYONGYANG, North Korea â A new North Korean video portrays President Barack Obama and American troops in flames and says the North conducted its recent nuclear test because of U.S. hostility.
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Google: legislation on web porn 'would be a mistake'
Government proposals to legislate on web porn would give parents a false sense of security, Google has claimed.
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Iceland's porn ban 'conflicts with the idea of a free society', say critics
Anti-censorship campaigners say the Icelandic government's plan to ban pornography is 'an affront to the basic principles of society'
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Apple censoring iCloud emails and attachments
Apple's iCloud email service deletes all emails that contain the phrase "barely legal teen" it was revealed today.
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Freedom of the Press
This map shows the freedoms of the press around the world.
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Computer Scientists Measure the Speed of Censorship On China's Twitter
Censorship on Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, is near real-time and relies on a workforce of over 4,000 censors who stop work during the evening news, according the first detailed analysis of censorship patterns.
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White House Petition Against CISPA Gets Over The 100,000 Signature Threshold
Yet another White House petition has made it over the 100,000 signature mark, which is necessary to get a response. This one is asking the White House not to support CISPA, arguing that the terms are too broad, and the possibility of abuse is simply...
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Iran Is Sealing Off the Web As It Rolls Out a Domestic Intranet
The nation has cut off access to most virtual private networks.
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Google Reader’s demise is awful for Iranians, who use it to avoid censorship
Google's announcement that it's killing off Google Reader, the company's beloved, if not wildly popular, tool for consuming RSS feeds, was met with outrage from journalists and other, largely American nerds who rely on it to efficiently churn through blogs and other websites. But the real tragedy is likely to be felt in countries like Iran.
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Will Killing Google Reader Increase Global Censorship?
After Google unceremoniously announced it would be killing Reader later this year, much of the outraged response focused on its use in the U.S. But there's a whole other aspect to the service: for thousands of users around the world, it's one of the few ways they can get around their country's censors.
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4 Requirements of North Korean Propaganda Videos
In the past, North Korean propaganda has enjoyed some varsity-level moments of unintentional comedy, all of which can be divided into the following four categories.
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A World Without The Internet
The whole wide world was at Michael's fingertips...with the click of a bookmark. But all that was all about to change.
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Russia may ban Wikipedia over article on smoking pot
The country's controversial 2012 Internet blacklist law is primed to take down its most prominent victim yet.
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Hong Kong's Bookstore of Banned Books
An interview with Paul Tang, whose People' Recreation Community has tapped into an intriguing new market.
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How Anonymous have become digital culture's protest heroes
Fruzsina Eordogh: The hacktivist collective's justice campaign following Rehtaeh Parsons' suicide shows how they've made online protest mainstream...
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Anonymous Calls For Internet Blackout To Protest CISPA
On Friday, Anonymous called for an Internet blackout in protest of CISPA, which passed the House on Thursday. If signed into law, CISPA would make it legal for websites to give your personal information to the U.S. government without your permission.
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Government giving AT&T, others secret immunity from wiretap laws
DoJ helps AT&T, other service providers evade wiretapping laws so government can conduct Internet surveillance...
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FBI's Latest Proposal for a Wiretap-Ready Internet Should Be Trashed
The FBI has some strange ideas about how to “update” federal surveillance laws: They’re calling for legislation to penalize online services that provide users with too much security. While it’s not yet clear how dire the going-dark scenario really is, the statutory “cure” proposed by the FBI -- with fines starting at $25,000 a day for companies that aren’t wiretap capable -- would surely be worse than the disease.
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11 Governments Are Meeting in Peru to Figure Out How They Can Control the Internet
The Trans-Pacific Partnership has been called the "biggest global threat to the Internet."
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Cuba to expand government-controlled Internet access
Cuba's communist government has presented a plan to expand public Internet access on the Caribbean island nation. But private Internet access in Cuban homes will remain unavailable.
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