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Chilling effect: China declares victory in war to control online speech
Earlier this year, the Chinese government launched its biggest-ever clampdown against online speech, arresting dozens of people for spreading "rumors" and holding closed-door meetings with some of the country's most influential bloggers. Now Beijing is declaring victory.
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A Generation of US and UK War Veterans Are Being Silenced
After the Remembrance Day parade, I repaired to a central London boozer with fellow veterans to stew my brain in ale. Pinned to chests all around us were glinting banks of medals. A statistically improbable number of airborne maroon and commando green berets were on display. Groups of veterans bunched together, slurring war stories.
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US journalists feel wrath of Beijing
China appears poised to expel nearly two dozen foreign journalists at The New York Times and Bloomberg in a drastic escalation of pressure being placed on foreign news organisations operating in the country. Reporters for the two US news organisations have faced extensive delays with visa renewals, after publishing a series of exposes on senior Chinese leaders, including President Xi Jinping and former premier Wen Jiabao, that have embarrassed and angered the central government.
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Behind China’s Cyber Curtain
Visiting the country's far reaches, where the government shut down the Internet.
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Who is watching you ? Internet Tracking Firefox Add-On
Ghostery, a firefox add on which helps you to know who all watching your internet activity and y...
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The UK Government Is Already Censoring The Global Internet
The new intellectual property crime unit PIPCU uses threats, not due process, to get copyright-infringing domains off the Internet
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Inside the Saudi 9/11 coverup
After the 9/11 attacks, the public was told al Qaeda acted alone, with no state sponsors. But the White House never let it see an entire section of Congress’ investigative report on 9/11 dealing with “specific sources of foreign support” for the 19 hijackers, 15 of whom were Saudi nationals. It was kept secret and remains so today.
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Kim Dotcom: The Man Behind Mega
In October 2013, VICE News was invited to visit the infamous tech mogul and creator of Megaupload, Kim Dotcom, at his palatial property in New Zealand. Even though Kim is under house arrest—since he's at the center of history's largest copyright case—he's still able to visit a recording studio in Auckland. So check out this brand new documentary we made at Kim's mega-mansion
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UK ISPs are now legally liable for everything that goes through their wires?
To protect ISPs from legal liability for the information that travels in their wires, Europe has a concept called Mere Conduit. In essence, it means that as long as an ISP stays entirely transport-neutral, then it is not liable for anything transmitted through its wires - ISP that starts sorting the Internet into allowed and disallowed becomes liable for complete traffic.
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China blocks the Guardian, censorship-tracking website says
The Guardian’s website has been partially blocked in China, according to a censorship-tracking website. The website was first blocked on Tuesday, according to the website greatfire.org. Numerous attempts to access the site from multiple browsers, devices and locations across Beijing failed without the aid of firewall-circumventing software. As of Wednesday afternoon local time, the Guardian’s mobile and iPad apps were still uncensored.
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Netflix warns it will provoke customer protest if ISPs violate net neutrality principles
The company sees itself as an ally to ISPs, not an enemy.
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Dutch ISPs drop Pirate Bay blocks after court rules them 'ineffective'
The Netherlands has been at the forefront of battling online piracy through the enforcement of banning orders on internet service providers, and now the country's also leading the way in admitting that the strategy is not as effective as had been hoped.
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How Putin's cronies seized control of Russia's Facebook
It's hard to imagine a situation in which Mark Zuckerberg would sell his stake in Facebook. It's even more difficult to imagine him fleeing from the police, battling takeover attempts from billionaires, or tossing $100 bills from his office window. Yet that's exactly the scenario that's unfolded over the past few months in St. Petersburg, where Pavel Durov, the eccentric founder of social networking site VKontakte (VK), is suddenly persona non grata.
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U.S. Media Blacks Out New Snowden Interview The U.S. Government Doesn’t Want You to See
This past Sunday evening former NSA contractor Edward Snowden sat down for an interview with German television network ARD. The interview has been intentional blocked from the US public, with virtually no major broadcast news outlets covering this story. In addition, the video has been taken down almost immediately every time it’s posted on YouTube.
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Wikipedia's 10,000-word war over the word 'f*ck'
The fight has raged for nearly 10,000 words at this point, and still Wikipedia’s editors aren’t sure whether to put an article about a 2005 sociopolitical documentary on its main page. Why such indecisiveness? Because the film in question is titled Fuck.
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6 People Who Were Literally Erased From History
Dictators have long used photoshop to erase the past.
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Why Are Journalists Being Imprisoned in Egypt?
Abdullah Elshamy, an Al Jazeera correspondent, has now been in prison for 175 days and on hunger strike for a little over two weeks. "I've lost a number of pounds. I only rely on liquids. The littlest effort makes me feel dizzy," he wrote in a letter smuggled out of his prison cell, where pens and paper are banned. "But it's what I feel compelled to do in order to raise awareness about the importance of freedom of speech."
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Turkey passes law tightening control of internet
The Turkish parliament has approved a bill that would tighten government controls over the internet. The new law will allow Turkey's telecommunications authority to block websites without first seeking a court ruling. It will also force internet providers to store data on web users' activities for two years and make it available to the authorities.
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Tim Berners-Lee: we need to re-decentralise the web
Twenty-five years on from the web's inception, its creator has urged the public to re-engage with its original design: a decentralised internet that at its very core, remains open to all.
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Tim Berners-Lee: We need to re-decentralize the Web
The greatest danger is the emergence of a balkanized Internet.
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