Censorship
07 September 2010
Jordanian websites shift political dissent online Reuters
Mocking officials online, exposing high-level corruption and discussing political tension could land journalists in many autocratic Middle East states in jail.
05 September 2010
Saudi telecom shuts websites violating Fatwa edict Boston Globe
Saudi Arabia's telecom regulator has shut down three websites that were violating a government decree limiting the issuance of religious edicts to the country's most senior group of clerics, authorities said Saturday.
02 September 2010
Will Russia's Bloggers Survive Censorship Push? Der Spiegel
With so many of their media sources controlled by the state or government-friendly oligarchs, Russians have turned to their bloggers to keep informed and give voice to their grievances and concerns. But many of those in power are now seeking to impose rigid limits on online freedom.
23 August 2010
Cyberactivists unblock Wikileaks for Thai Netizens Washington Post
A group of anonymous Internet activists has set up a website to display information about Thailand that comes from the whistle-blower site Wikileaks, which is blocked to some viewers in the Southeast Asian country.
21 August 2010
South Korea tries to block Twitter messages from North Washington Post
The sour state of relations on the Korean Peninsula has led to equally sour relations on the Internet, with North and South Korea now engaged in a micro-battle over micro-blogging.
18 August 2010
Thai Groups Denounce Website Censorship; Government Blocks Thousands of Pages Following Clashes Wall Street Journal
Criticism over Thailand's efforts to curb political debate online is mounting as the government restricts thousands of websites following deadly protest clashes earlier this year.
14 August 2010
New China Search Engine Will Be State-Controlled New York Times
In an apparent bid to extend its control over the Internet and cash in on the rapid growth of mobile devices, China plans to create a government-controlled search engine.
Indian Govt: Google, Skype, RIM must meet security needs Reuters
India will go after any company, including Google, after cracking down on BlackBerry in its bid to keep the world's fastest growing mobile phone market safe from militants and cyber spying, a government source said on Friday.
04 August 2010
The trouble with technology: from Google's mixed fortunes in China to Facebook's two-week ban in Pakistan and YouTube's problems in Turkey The Guardian
Last month India's internal security chief UK Bansal raised concerns with RIM over the data services that its handheld devices enable and the two sides were working on a solution. The government wants to be able to read emails and other electronic messages sent from BlackBerry devices.
02 August 2010
Two Gulf states to ban some Blackberry functions BBC News
Two Gulf states have announced bans on some functions of the Blackberry mobile phone, claiming security concerns.
Indonesia Finds Banning Pornography Is Difficult New York Times
As one of the heads of the Indonesian Internet Service Provider Association, Valens Riyadi knows he has his work cut out for him.
30 July 2010
Google says China search block may be tech glitch Reuters
Google Inc said its earlier report that Internet search services in China were being fully blocked could have been the result of a technical glitch that overstated the problem.
YouTube banned by Russian court The Guardian
Court in Khabarovsk region orders internet provider Rosnet to block YouTube over ultra-nationalist video
25 July 2010
Google's YouTube Gatekeepers New York Times
In 2006, Thailand announced it was blocking access to YouTube for anyone with a Thai I.P address, and then identified 20 offensive videos for Google to remove as a condition of unblocking the site.
21 July 2010
Censorship: Australian Labour's hidden policy ABC News
Labour's internet filtering policy isn't being discussed in the run-up to the election but its impact on Australia is significant. Championed by Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, the $30million filter is being sold by Labour as an internet block for child pornography, bestiality and extreme pornography with 'wide ranging support from the Australian public' and 'only minimal opposition against'.
20 July 2010
China satisfied with Google search engine tweaks Reuters
China is satisfied that U.S. Internet giant Google Inc is complying with Chinese laws after it tweaked the way it directs users to an unfiltered search page, a senior official said on Tuesday.
17 July 2010
China Tests New Controls on Twitter-Style Services New York Times
China's biggest Internet companies are testing new controls on some local alternatives to Twitter to prevent them from becoming channels for the proliferation of content the authorities dislike.
16 July 2010
China may shut websites with pornographic writing Reuters
China's press watchdog has threatened to shut down more than 120 websites offering pornographic fiction, the official Xinhua News Agency reported on Thursday.
15 July 2010
Indonesia to ask internet providers to block porn Reuters
Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, is planning use a controversial anti-pornography law to restrict porn websites in the next few months, a communications ministry spokesman said on Wednesday.
14 July 2010
China Green Dam web filter teams 'face funding crisis' BBC News
Reports from China say a controversial government-backed software project to filter internet content could be on the brink of collapse.
09 July 2010
Google confident of getting China web license Reuters
Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt expressed confidence the company will secure a licence to operate a website in China, confounding speculation Beijing may shut down its flagship site there.
France, Netherlands seek to halt Internet censorship The Age
France and the Netherlands called Thursday for international guidelines to prevent private firms from exporting high-tech equipment that could be used for Internet censorship.
07 July 2010
Google's China webpage licence under review - government Reuters
Google's application to renew its webpage licence in China is currently under review with no set deadline, a government official said on Wednesday.
06 July 2010
Google's China license problem remains unresolved Network World
After five days of waiting, Google is still in the dark about whether the company's operating license in China will be renewed.
05 July 2010
Turkey faces legal challenge over YouTube ban; Turkey goes into battle with Google The Guardian
An internet rights group has launched a legal challenge in Turkey over a ban on access to a host of Google-owned sites.
