News tagged with cyber censorship

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. ...

Technology / Internet

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 12

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.

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created Jul 18, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Cyber wars: Experts call for a new approach to tackling censorship online

In the new issue of Index on Censorship, 'Brave New Words', leading internet experts Ron Deibert and Rafal Rohozinski call for a new approach to tackling censorship online.

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created Mar 23, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

China's response to Google threat: 'Obey the law' (Update)

(AP) -- China's government gave little indication Thursday that it's willing to loosen its control over Internet search results, pushing Google Inc. closer to the brink of closing up shop and leaving the ...

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created Jan 14, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft urged not to censor search

Rights groups called on Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft on Friday not to censor their Web search engines one day next week to help protest cyber censorship.

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created Mar 06, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 10