Tag: censorship

SOPA and PIPA Are Not Quite Dead Yet
While some may view the shelving of the infamous piracy bills as the death of both SOPA and PIPA, both bills remain alive with active supporters in both houses of the U.S. governme...
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Brazil Goes After Twitter Users Over Speed Trap Warnings
Brazil’s attorney general has filed an injunction to suspend the Twitter accounts of users who tweet out warnings about the timing and location of speed traps and traffic checkpoin...
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Google Begins Censoring Content In India
Google and Facebook, among others, have begun complying with demands by the government of India that they filter religiously and socially objectionable content from their sites. A...
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TPP Follows ACTA, Twitter Calls It World War Web
First there was SOPA, then there was PIPA. The Internet beat those back. Then along came...
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The Netherlands: The Most Active Country On Twitter
With expectations that Twitter will cross the threshold of 500 million accounts as soon as later this m...
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Blogger Redirect Makes Censorship Easier For Google
Much like Twitter's recent announcement concerning country-specific censorship, Google is getting on the fun...
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Two Dutch ISPs Refuse To Block Web Sites
Dutch ISPs are fighting the good fight for net freedom by keeping access to Web sites like the The Pirate Bay open....
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Twitter: Thailand First To Endorse Censorship Policy
It looks like a country is already welcoming Twitter’s new censorship policy with open arms. Thailand was the first country to announce that they would be taking advantage of T...
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Is Twitter Censorship Being Pushed By A Saudi Prince?
Did a Saudi Prince’s investment in Twitter have anything to do with the recent Twitter censorship announcement? Most of Twitter’s users seems to think so. As we...
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Twitter Should Embrace Openness, Not Censorship
As we reported and as you all are most likely aware of by now, Twitter will begin...
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More Voters Worry About Censorship Than Piracy
In the midst of the ongoing controversy surrounding SOPA and PIPA, it may be wise to take a step back and see what the average voter thinks about issues like piracy and internet ce...
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Censored Twitter? No Worries, There’s A Workaround
Are you worried about Twitter’s news that they are going to begin...
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Twitter May Selectively Censor Local Tweets Yet Permit Them Globally
Shortly after the start of the January 25 protests in Egypt last year, a movement where activists removed their sitting president and arguable lit the fuse for the Arab Spring that...
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SOPA Blackout: TorrentFreak ******s Its ******* In Protest
TorrentFreak is joining the, well, torrent of websites that are blacking out in protest of SOPA today. While some, like...
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Facebook, Google Challenge India Prosecution
Late last week we brought you news that the government of India had s...
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