News tagged with censorship
Hackers plot DIY Sputniks for Internet freedom
(PhysOrg.com) -- Hackers at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, which wrapped up over the weekend, are toasting the New Year with a newly announced plan for a hacker-owned satellite communications ...
Jan 02, 2012 |
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New anti-censorship scheme could make it impossible to block individual sites
A radical new approach to thwarting Internet censorship would essentially turn the whole web into a proxy server, making it virtually impossible for a censoring government to block individual sites.
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Aug 10, 2011 |
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Norway court rejects industry bid to block The Pirate Bay
A Norwegian court has rejected a record industry appeal against telecoms operator Telenor for refusing to block access to popular file sharing website The Pirate Bay, a plaintiff said Wednesday.
Feb 10, 2010 |
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Hacker group launches online social network
Infamous hacker group Anonymous launched Monday its own social network after being rejected by Google's freshly-launched online community.
Jul 18, 2011 |
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Australia defends mandatory Internet filter
Australia Sunday defended its plan to block some Internet content, such as that featuring child sex abuse or advocating terrorism, after a media rights watchdog warned it may hurt free speech.
Mar 14, 2010 |
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US shutdown of sharing site draws hacker retaliation
US authorities have shut down one of the largest file-sharing websites and charged seven people with copyright crimes, sparking a retaliatory cyber attack on the FBI and Justice Department websites. ...
Jan 20, 2012 |
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US Senate committee approves online piracy bill
The US Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill on Thursday that would give US law enforcement more tools to crack down on websites abroad engaged in piracy of movies, television shows and music.
Nov 18, 2010 |
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Norway court snubs call to block The Pirate Bay
A court in Norway on Friday rejected calls from the entertainment industry to force communications giant Telenor to block its customers from accessing popular file sharing website The Pirate Bay.
Nov 06, 2009 |
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Australia filter could 'legitimise' censorship: Google
Internet giant Google led high-profile criticism of Australia's controversial plan to filter the Internet Tuesday, saying it went too far and could set a dangerous precedent.
Mar 23, 2010 |
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Journalists in China say Yahoo accounts hacked
(AP) -- Yahoo e-mail accounts belonging to foreign journalists appeared to have been hacked and Google's Chinese search engine was intermittently blocked because of an internal change Tuesday, the latest troubles in China's ...
Mar 30, 2010 |
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Many wired Chinese unfazed at possible Google exit
(AP) -- A world without Google? They can imagine it just fine in China. After all, it's not like losing "World of Warcraft."
Feb 01, 2010 |
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Dalai Lama to tweet with Chinese web users
The Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, will hold his first online chat with Chinese web users via Twitter on Friday, despite efforts by Beijing to silence him on the mainland.
May 21, 2010 |
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Google wins permission to keep website in China (Update 3)
(AP) -- Google won permission Friday to maintain its website in China and keep its toehold in the world's most populous nation after bowing to pressure to eliminate a virtual detour around the country's online ...
Jul 09, 2010 |
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China's Internet population tops 500 million
China now has more than 500 million people on the Internet and nearly half use weibos, microblogs similar to Twitter that can circumvent the country's powerful censors, official data showed Monday.
Jan 16, 2012 |
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Net produces new generation of China activists
(AP) -- Lin Xiuying believes her daughter bled to death after being gang-raped two years ago by a group of thugs that had ties to the police in their southern Chinese town.
Mar 19, 2010 |
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Censorship
Censorship is the suppression of speech or deletion of communicative material which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the government or media organizations as determined by a censor.
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