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China's army of Web monitors is 2 million strong
China employs more than 2 million people to monitor Web activity, the state-run Beijing News reports. Although these "Internet opinion analysts" aren't actually charged with deleting anything themselves, they comb through microblogging sites like the ultra-popular Sina Weibo and report back to "decision-makers" with the power to censor posts.
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Taliban Says It Would Try to Kill Malala Yousafzai Again
The Taliban didn't target Malala Yousafzai because of her advocacy of education for girls but because she "attacked Islam," and the group would try to kill her again if they could, the official spokesman for the Pakistan Taliban told ABC News.
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How TV Finally Returned to Afghanistan After 30 Years of Censorship
In the opening scene of the documentary film The Network, journalist Ahmad Shafi describes watching a public execution in Kabul during the Taliban regime: “That had become the only entertainment in the city. There was nothing else… The country had completely shut down so people didn’t have access to media.”
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DDoS attacks are likely bombarding the U.S. as we speak
Google’s new real-time map showing DDoD attacks across the world is both awesome and scary — especially if you’re running a website in the United States.
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The Pirate Bay’s web browser hits one million downloads
A WEB BROWSER released by filesharing website The Pirate Bay has been downloaded one million times in the two months since it was released. Called the Pirate Browser, the web browser offers users a way to The Pirate Bay when otherwise they might be blocked by their internet service provider (ISP).
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Google Fights the Censors in Iran and China
Starting today, an Internet user in an oppressive country can swap online identities with someone in the West. Josh Rogin on how the tech company is battling censors.
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Why Instagram Censored My Body
Recently I had my Instagram account deleted. I did nothing that violated the terms of use. No nudity, violence, pornography, unlawful, hateful, or infringing imagery. What I did have was an image of MY body that didn't meet society's standard of "femininity."
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The Battle for Power on the Internet
Distributed citizen groups and nimble hackers once had the edge. Now governments and corporations are catching up. Who will dominate in the decades ahead?
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China vows to silence Dalai Lama in Tibet
China’s ruling Communist Party aims to silence the voice of the Dalai Lama in his Tibetan homeland by tightening controls on media and the Internet, a top official said on Saturday.
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Protest in Russia: an activity only for the brave and foolhardy
As anti-corruption protesters look set to join Pussy Riot and Greenpeace activists stuck in cells, Muscovites are growing more fearful.
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We're About to Lose Net Neutrality — And the Internet as We Know It
The implications of such a decision would be profound. Web and mobile companies will live or die not on the merits of their technology and design, but on the deals they can strike with AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, and others who could otherwise 'shakedown' startups and established companies in every sector, requiring payment for reliable service.
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Pakistan private schools ban Malala book
Two private schools associations say Taliban victim's work is "tool of the West" and does not represent Pakistan.
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How Iran Uses Wikipedia To Censor The Internet
A new study from the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School claims that Wikipedia might hold the key to understanding how Iran censors, and controls, the internet. The answer, in four words: with a heavy hand.
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Our Government Has Weaponized the Internet. Here's How They Did It
The internet backbone — the infrastructure of networks upon which internet traffic travels — went from being a passive infrastructure for communication to an active weapon for attacks. According to revelations about the QUANTUM program, the NSA can “shoot” (their words) an exploit at any target it desires as his or her traffic passes across the backbone.
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Bloomberg News Suspends Reporter Whose Article on China Was Not Published
A reporter for Bloomberg News who worked on an unpublished article about China, which employees for the company said had been killed for political reasons by top Bloomberg editors, was suspended last week by managers.
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The Transparent Chinese
A government critic and professor at the Beijing Film Academy, Mr. Hao signed Charter 08, a 2008 manifesto modeled on Charter 77, the 1977 document that helped usher in the end of one-party rule in Czechoslovakia. He has participated in forums about democracy and the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, where his cousin died from a bullet wound.
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Google's Schmidt predicts end of censorship within a decade
Google Inc Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has a bold prediction: Censorship around the world could end in a decade, and better use of encryption will help people
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Automattic files two lawsuits and strikes back at fraudulent DMCA takedown notices on WordPress.com
According to the blog-hosting company, a common form of censorship it encounters relates to the improper use of ‘DMCA’ takedowns – DMCA standing for the ‘Digital Millennium Copyright Act’, a US federal law designed to protect copyright in the Internet age. While Automattic can’t be legally held responsible for copyright infringement if it follows the correct takedown protocol, it does rely on the good faith of copyright owners.
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Microsoft doesn't want you to swear at your Xbox One
The Xbox One's Upload Studio is designed to help you share your most exciting gameplay clips with friends. But as some early console owners are already finding out, using profanity during those recordings can have consequences. Microsoft has confirmed to The Verge that it is handing out temporary Xbox Live bans for select gamers found to be using "excessive" foul language in content created with Upload Studio.
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Vietnam introduces fines for citizens who criticize the government on social media
Vietnam’s government is cracking down on Internet freedom (or whatever little there was of it in the first place) in the country — after it introduced a fine of 100 million dong ($4,740) for anyone who criticizes the government on social media.
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