Censorship

TorrentFreak News Site Blocked By Sky Porn Filter

More fury at filters blocking non-offensive websites

10 years ago

BT Forces Customers To Make Parental Controls Choice

BT will offer network level parental controls to customers - and there's no sitting on the fence

10 years ago

UK Government Wants ISPs To Block Extremist Content

According to a government minister, launch of the new censorship campaign is “imminent”

10 years ago

Iran Facebook, Twitter Filters Lifted Briefly In ‘Technical Glitch’

Iran, whose new president has promised a softer line on Internet filtering, saw blocks on Twitter and Facebook disappear briefly…

11 years ago

1,700 Websites In Russia Go Dark In A SOPA-Style Protest

Popular websites stop their services for a day to highlight the possible effects of a new anti-piracy law

11 years ago

Quiz of the Week: Internet Censorship

Cameron's porn ban, China's repressive actions, North Korea's home brew Internet - what do you know about global censorship?

11 years ago

Iran Launches National Email Service For All Citizens

But cannot promise that the domestic and state-controlled email service will be free of censorship

11 years ago

Google Donates £1m To Internet Watch Foundation Amidst Child Abuse Controversy

IWF gets its a massive boost in its fight against nasty content on the Web from Google

11 years ago

Cameron Calls For ‘More Action’ Against Online Child Abuse Images

The government is to convene a summit with leading Internet companies, including search engines and ISPs, on how the industry…

11 years ago

Google Urged To Block Abusive Online Porn

Despite already doing a lot to delete indecent images from the Internet, Google and ISPs are facing calls to do…

11 years ago

Facebook Pledges Action After Sexism Campaign

Facebook has vowed to clamp down on postings and pages that promote violence and sexism against women

11 years ago

UK ISPs Block Two More File Sharing Sites

MPA wins court order to block Movie 2K and Download4All

11 years ago

Reporters Without Borders Names And Shames Corporate Spyware Sellers

UK's Gamma International is branded the "Corporate Enemy of the Internet"

11 years ago

MIT To Probe Suicide Of Reddit Co-Founder Aaron Swartz

Was MIT to blame for the death of activist Aaron Swartz?

11 years ago

Google’s Schmidt Urges Open Web After North Korea Visit

Google's Eric Schmidt has urged one of the world's least connected countries to open up to the Internet

11 years ago

Cameron’s Christmas Cock-up On Porn Blocking

Porn blocking has been announced - through the Daily Mail - without research and without listening, says Tom Brewster

11 years ago

Euro MPs Reject UN Control Of The Internet

The United Nations should not be given control of the Internet, European MPs have warned

11 years ago

Israel And Hamas Conflict Spills Onto Twitter

The bitter fighting between Israel and Hamas migrates on to Twitter

11 years ago

Google Transparency Report Shows Increase In Government Surveillance

UK government requests for content removal double in latest Google Transparency Report

11 years ago

Russia Ramps Up Internet Censorship

A single country-wide blacklist will block content deemed “harmful to children”

11 years ago

BPI Wants More File-Sharing Sites Blocked

Fenopy, H33t and Kickass Torrents could be gone before Christmas

12 years ago

Poll: Should Twitter Censor Neo-Nazis… Or Nick Griffin?

While a petition tries to get Griffin off the service, Twitter is censoring other users

12 years ago

Twitter Removes Anti-Semitic Tweets In France

A complaint by the Union of Jewish Students of France leads Twitter to remove messages

12 years ago

Iran Restores Gmail Access

Iranian authorities have restored access to Gmail, but are continuing to block YouTube in the wake of controversy over an…

12 years ago

Google Brazil To Take Down Offending YouTube Video

Google Brazil says it will remove allegedly slanderous video after official is detained by police

12 years ago

Governments Worldwide ‘Increase Censorship’ Of Internet

A report identifies Iran, Cuba and China as the worst offenders

12 years ago

Iranian Internet Censorship Continues With Google And Gmail Block

Secure services blocked. Is Iran planning a national intranet launch?

12 years ago

YouTube Keeps Anti-Islamic ‘Innocence of Muslims’ Video Online

Blocks access in Egypt and Lybia, but maintains that “Innocence of Muslims” doesn’t violate the site’s policies

12 years ago

‘Horrific’ Twitter Abuse Facing Clampdown

The boss of Twitter has promised to clampdown on the 'horrific' problem of online trolling, bullying and abuse

12 years ago

Google: Western Democracies Guilty Of Internet Censorship

Google Transparency Report paints a worrying picture

12 years ago