Censorship

Google: Western Democracies Guilty Of Internet Censorship

Google Transparency Report paints a worrying picture

12 years ago

Council Overturns School Meal Blog Ban

Nine year old Martha Payne will continue to be able to post pictures of her school meals after outrage

12 years ago

Disability Rights Website Blocked

BT customers were unable to acess Black Triangle's website for six months

12 years ago

Iran Bans Foreign Email For Some Industries

Local banks, insurance companies and telecommunications firms have been ordered to use Iran-based email and web providers

12 years ago

Report Slams Default Porn Filters On Mobiles

Report uncovers over-blocking of mobile Internet

12 years ago

TalkTalk Customers Want Smut-Cutting Porn Filter

One third of new TalkTalk customers opt for censorship, 80 percent approve of the offer

12 years ago

Netherlands Institutes Net Neutrality Law

The Netherlands has become the first country in Europe, and the second in the world after Chile, to institute net…

12 years ago

Prime Minister To Consult On Default Porn Block

David Cameron is to meet with ISPs following an inquiry that recommended introducing stringent measures to block adult content

12 years ago

Ministers Object To Default Porn Block

Ministers are already hinting that a proposal to censor the Internet by default is a dead duck

12 years ago

ISPs And Privacy Groups Hit Out At Internet Porn Block Plans

Government plans have been labelled as ineffective and amount to censorship

12 years ago

MPs Want ISPs to Block Porn By Default

ISPs should be forced to provide a censored internet feed to protect children from "adult" content, say MPs

12 years ago

Great Firewall Of China Blocks All Foreign Sites Following Brief Hiccup

Update to national firewall suspected as cause of temporary foreign site blackout

12 years ago

Chinese Authorities Close 16 Websites After Coup Rumours

Comment function shut down on two microblogging platforms following the fall of a political leader

12 years ago

Microsoft Censors Pirate Bay Links In Live Messenger Chat

Live Messenger links to Pirate Bay blacked out by Microsoft

12 years ago

ZTE Sold Surveillance Equipment To State-Owned Iranian Telco

ZTE reportedly signed a deal in 2010 to provide broad monitoring equipment to Iran

12 years ago

Iran Blocks More Websites Ahead Of Elections

The Iranian government expands its programme of web censorship ahead of March elections

12 years ago

US Secret Service Pulls Plug On Forms Site

The US Secret Service has shut down and then reinstated online forms site JotForm, without the need for a law…

12 years ago

Iran Begins Blocking Sites Using HTTPS Protocol

Reports suggest that Iran is clamping down on sites in the build-up to the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution

12 years ago

Brazil Sues Twitter Over Speed Trap Tweets

Brazilian government demands Twitter block accounts which warn users about traffic checkpoints and speed traps

12 years ago

TalkTalk Makes New Customers View Parental Controls

TalkTalk says new customers will have to make an active choice whether or not to filter a number of content…

12 years ago

Facebook And Google Remove ‘Offensive’ Material From Indian Sites

Indian court orders 21 major internet firms to prevent 'anti-religious' or 'anti-social' content from appearing on their sites

12 years ago

Google To Censor Blogger Sites On Country-By-Country Basis

Google follows Twitter's lead and will use country-code top level domains to censor content as required

12 years ago

Twitter Faces Protest Over Censorship Move

Users are protesting at Twitter's decision to censor content in certain countries in line with local laws

12 years ago

Dutch ISPs Refuse To Block The Pirate Bay

KPN and T-Mobile say that censorship should only be used as a ''drastic measure'

12 years ago

Twitter Can Now Censor Tweets In Individual Countries

Twitter says it must block tweets to grow internationally, but promises to clearly mark when it does so

12 years ago

Filesonic Puts The Brakes on File Sharing Service

The ramifcations of the MegaUpload shutdown continue to be felt as Filesonic disables file sharing and its reward programme

12 years ago

SOPA Is Back, And Sir Tim Berners-Lee Is Out To Stop It

As the Stop Online Piracy Act comes back on Congress's schedule, the father of the Web speaks out against it

12 years ago

Chinese Government’s RedPad Android Tablet Attracts Internet Ire

Chinese Communist Party officials to get a £1000 Android tablet with bespoke apps, developed secretly for two years

12 years ago