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Hey, Washington Post: Print that forbidden NSA interview!
The Post gets a huge story, but still allows the government to jerk its reporters around.
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Thailand begins monitoring of Facebook, YouTube and LINE
Thailand will monitor its citizens on popular social media platforms including Facebook, YouTube, and Japanese messaging app LINE.
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Cisco Leak: 'Great Firewall' of China Was a Chance to Sell More Routers
An internal Cisco document leaked to reporters on the eve of a Senate human rights hearing reveals that Cisco engineers regarded the Chinese government’s rigid internet censorship program as an opportunity to do more business with the repressive regime.
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The solution to online privacy? Encrypt everything
In the wake of disclosures about the National Security Agency’s widespread surveillance of online activity, an influential group has proposed a radical solution to enhance privacy: encrypt everything.
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Syria’s largest city just dropped off the Internet
While the U.S. government continues to weigh military intervention in Syria, it appears that Syria’s largest city has gone dark on the Internet. Aleppo, a city in Northern Syria that has been the site of intense fighting between rebel forces and the Assad regime, and the surrounding area appear to have lost connectivity to the Internet as of last night.
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In Vietnam, it's now officially illegal to do anything online
In Vietnam, it's now officially illegal to do anything online that the government might not like.
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Kim Dotcom resigns Mega directorship
Flamboyant internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom has resigned as a director of his Mega data storage empire to focus on his efforts on fighting extradition to the United States and other projects.
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Kim Dotcom Forming New Political Party In New Zealand
Whatever your views about Kim Dotcom, you have to admire his dogged fight against extradition from New Zealand, not least because it has revealed some serious abuses of power against dozens of people. Now it seems he is taking things a stage further, if this recent tweet is any indication
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The US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back
Bruce Schneier: The NSA has undermined a fundamental social contract. We engineers built the internet – and now we have to fix it
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Fake Cable Ad Apparently Hits Too Close To Home; Bogus Defamation Claim Censors Video In Canada
Back in March, we had written about an absolutely hilarious fake cable ad by the good folks at Extremely Decent Films. It's funny, and you can watch it again here... if you're not in Canada
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Verizon’s bid to kill network neutrality law goes to court Monday
Gutting law would let ISPs block content, applications, services, and devices.
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Google Refuses to Remove The Pirate Bay Homepage
The Pirate Bay is one of the few torrent sites that doesn't link to any infringing material on its homepage but that doesn't prevent copyright holders from targeting it. In one of its recent DMCA notices music industry group BPI asked Google to remove The Pirate Bay's homepage from its search results, marking it as infringing. Google disagreed, however, and refused to comply with the request.
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Vietnam's Internet Censorship Bill Goes Into Effect
Internet freedom has gone from bad to worse in Vietnam as an online censorship law known as Decree 72 went into effect this month. It bans bloggers and users of social media from quoting, gathering, or summarizing information from press organizations or government websites. While the main justification for the law is to uphold "national security," Vietnamese authorities also claim that this law is aimed at combating online copyright infringement.
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Facebook Added to Russian Website Blocklist, Joins 30,000 Unofficial Others
Russia's Internet blacklist, which can blackhole websites for reasons ranging from copyright infringement through to drug-related information, has welcomed its highest profile addition. Russia's telecoms watchdog has confirmed that Facebook has been added to the list leaving the site just 72 hours or face being blocked by Internet service providers.
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Canada Forcing Wounded Vets To Sign Agreement Not To Criticize The Military On Social Media
Rob Hyndman alerts us to yet another attack on free speech up in Canada. The Canadian Armed Forces are apparently forcing wounded veterans to sign a form promising not to criticize the military on social media.
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Turkish Government Aims To Create 6000-Strong Social Media Propaganda Squad
In the recent demonstrations in Istanbul, the Turkish government may have had superior police and security forces on the streets, but one area where it lost the battle was on social networks, which anti-government protesters used adroitly to get...
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Microsoft Wanted Google to Censor a Wikipedia Page About Microsoft
After asking Google to censor Microsoft.com, Microsoft has given Google a copyright takedown request for a Microsoft Wikipedia page. Microsoft must want to scrub all mentions of itself on the Internet or something. It's the only sensible explanation for its vigilance!
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How Internet Censorship Actually Works in China
Studies show that the government permits some dissent online—but strikes down hard on calls for collective action.
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Here Are the Countries Where Internet Freedom Has Declined Most
As much as we online journalists love reports that rank things, even we must sometimes resist the urge to blog about them, even "in one map." Because honestly, some countries are just going to either be really good or bad at various things for the foreseeable future. Just as the Central African Republic is not going to be the best country for women within our lifetime, you'll probably never see a Scandinavian nation on a "failed states" slideshow.
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'Say no to Internet censorship' petition nears 100K signatures
The "Say no to Internet censorship" petition has tallied nearly 100,000 signatures in the past week -- showing that opposition to possible government proposals on stricter Internet laws is growing.
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