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China Is Experimenting With A New Form Of Internet Censorship
China is experimenting with more subtle methods to censor Internet search results ahead of the 24th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, according to a group that monitors blocked websites in the country.
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Has China stopped censoring the Tiananmen Square Massacre?
On the eve of China's most sensitive event, it appears that China's censors are relaxing their trigger fingers. But appearances are deceiving.
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Online throttling and site-blocking to be outlawed in Europe under net neutrality plan
We will guarantee access to the full and open internet on every device, on every network, says the EU's digital chief.
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Anonymous Just Leaked a Trove of NSA Documents
In the wake of last night’s revelation that everyone in the world has a creepy NSA-shaped stalker, defenders of online liberty and generally angry internet people Anonymous have leaked a treasure trove of NSA documents, including seriously important stuff like the US Department of Defense’s ‘Strategic Vision’ for controlling the internet.
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‘Free My Internet’: Hundreds march in Singapore against website licensing regime
In Singapore, up to 2,000 activists lead by local bloggers staged a rally against recently introduced licensing rules for news websites, including breaches of “racial or religious harmony”, which protesters see as an attack on freedom of expression.
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Chinese internet users call for an Edward Snowden of their own
Edward Snowden has fans among the Chinese, who know a thing or two about internet surveillance.In leaking information about a top-secret US government data collection program, Snowden argued that an increasingly authoritarian government could use such intelligence against citizens—exactly the situation Chinese nationals face.
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UK Considers Opt-in Freedom Of Speech
As outdated as a broken record, the UK is once again considering a plan to force Internet Service Providers to censor adult content online.
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HBO Asks Google to Take Down “Infringing” VLC Media Player
It's no secret that copyright holders are trying to take down as much pirated content as they can, but their targeting of open source software is something new. In an attempt to remove pirated copies of Game of Thrones from the Internet, HBO sent a DMCA takedown to Google, listing a copy of the popular media player VLC as a copyright infringement. An honest mistake, perhaps, but a worrying one.
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New NSFW content restrictions enrage Tumblr users
While David Karp was touting the platform's open freedom of speech policy, some users were learning about new tagging limitations that isolate their blog from the rest of the world.
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29 tags Tumblr banned from its mobile app (and 10 it didn't)
In the wake of Tumblr's censorship of various NSFW-friendly tags from its mobile app, we decided to take a closer look at the types of banned content to see if we could trace patterns.
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Putin critic to run for Moscow mayor despite conviction
Hundreds of supporters greeted the charismatic Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny as he returned to Moscow on Saturday after his surprise release from jail and
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How Porn Lost The Internet
The social, app-based internet has no room for porn. How your smartphone's browser became the dirtiest place on the internet.
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Internet porn 'opt in' is censorship, say Canadians
All internet pornography should be preemptively blocked in Canada, says Conservative MP Joy Smith of Winnipeg, which would force those who want to access adult content to "opt in" with their internet service provider.
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Edward Snowden's not the story. The fate of the internet is.
The press has lost the plot over the Snowden revelations. The fact is that the net is finished as a global network, and that US firms' cloud services cannot be trusted, writes John Naughton.
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Russia To Ban Swearing On The Internet
A year ago, we wrote about a Russian law that introduced a blacklist designed to block access to information on drugs, suicide and child pornography (all for the children, of course.) Strangely, that same law was then used to silence leading reporters who dared to criticize the government (bet nobody saw that coming....)
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‘Encryption is a human right’: Wikipedia aims to lock out NSA
Wikipedia is taking steps to make its site ‘unsnoopable’ to the NSA following revelations that its site users were being spied on. The measures will include the use of secure encryption for its logged-in users to minimize eavesdropping.
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Feds Are Suspects in New Malware That Attacks Tor Anonymity
Security researchers tonight are poring over a piece of malicious software that takes advantage of a Firefox security vulnerability to identify some users of the privacy-protecting Tor anonymity network. Guess why they won't be calling in the FBI.
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Pirate Bay Releases ‘Pirate Browser’ to Thwart Censorship
The Pirate Bay is taking a stand against the increased censorship efforts it faces in several European countries. On its 10th anniversary the infamous BitTorrent site is releasing its..
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Wikipedia Co-Founder Refuses to Comply With China’s Censorship
Wikipedia Co-Founder Jimmy Wales would rather have no Wikipedia in China than comply with any form of censorship.
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How Censorship Hurts Chinese Internet Companies
Beijing's block of Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter has allowed domestic equivalents to grow. But by shunning global markets, their long-term outlook is uncertain.
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