Tag: censorship

India Calls on Facebook to Remove “Inflammatory” Content
Another day, another call for Facebook to remove content. This time it comes from officials in India, who claim that content hosted on Facebook has led to a mass panic and exo...
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New York Times Debuts New Chinese Language Website
One of the benefits to China being an emerging market in the world is that there is now the possibility to gain access to 1.6 billion new customers. The New York Times, with its la...
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Miami Heat Owner Sues Google to Be Less Google-able
paidContent reports that Ranaan Katz, a minority owner of t...
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Nine-Year-Old Food Blogger Too Much To Handle For UK Council
UPDATE: Council head Roddy McCuish has told the BBC that he "instructed senior officials...
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Censored Blogger: “People Need to Know the Truth”
For a man who's been diagnosed with diabetes, you'd never guess that about Steven Cooksey. His life choices fly directly in the face of the American Diabetes Association's recomm...
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Diabetes Blogger Sues NC Agency for Censoring Site
Dig, if you will, a picture: you're a person with a remarkable story and you want to share it with others. This being 2012, the easiest and most effective way to share your message...
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China Begins Censoring Weibo Microblogging Service
Weibo is China's version of Twitter, and the microblogging service shares much in common with its Western counterpar...
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Twitter Blocked By Pakistan’s Government Due To ‘Blasphemous Content’
Social media has already proven that it's one of the greatest bastions of free speech on the Internet. A lot of governments that don't protect free speech hate social media because...
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Apple Stops Censoring “Jailbreak” From iTunes And The App Store
Yesterday we brought you news that Apple had suddenly begun censoring the...
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#OpIndia Is Anonymous’ New Campaign Against Internet Censorship
Anonymous is kind of like a global Batman that uses a computer instead of batarangs to fight what they perceive as injustice. They have started up operations in various...
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Matt Cutts Is Bummed Out by Iran’s Censorship
The saga of Iran's affront on an open internet acquired another chapter today as the government's telecommunications ministry has prohibited telephone operators, insurance firms, a...
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Mozilla Slams Apple’s “Walled-Garden” Philosophy
Apple is undoubtedly good at what they do. They create products that appeal to a large audience and many people have said that products like the iPad make it easier for people to i...
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Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, Attempts to Censor Its Users
Sina Weibo, the micro-blogging Chinese equivalent of Twitter, is preparing to issue new rules which dictate what its users can and cannot post to the site. Under what they're calli...
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Iran Filter Backfires, Blocks Khamenei’s Fatwa on Antifiltering
The Irani government's aggressive mission to censor internet access within the country took a turn toward irony yesterday when it filtered out a message from Iran's Supreme Leader,...
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Facebook Dislikes It When You’re Not Making Positive Contributions
It's no secret that Facebook is probably never going to implement a Dislike button...
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