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Censorship or Copyright Infringement? Flickr Takes Down "Obama as Joker" Photo
Written by Sarah Perez / August 19, 2009 6:43 AM / 36 Comments

Los Angeles residents recently began seeing a new sort of Obama poster plastered across their city. Instead of

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Chinese Internet Strike Proposed to Protest Censorship Software
Written by Jolie O'Dell / June 23, 2009 5:29 PM / 9 Comments

On July 1, the Chinese government will be rolling out censorship software on every new computer sold in

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Report: Global Proxy Effort for Iran is Faltering
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / June 22, 2009 9:36 AM / 6 Comments

Network analysts Renesys reported this morning that the global effort to supply proxy internet servers for Iranians to

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Twitter Censoring Trending Topics? Isn't It About Time?
Written by Jolie O'Dell / June 18, 2009 10:33 PM / 38 Comments

Tonight, the bored and lonely segment of Twitter users banded together to push three sexy, raunchy, and totally

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Las Vegas Newspaper Subpoenaed to Reveal Commenters' Identities
Written by Jolie O'Dell / June 16, 2009 6:41 PM / 7 Comments

The Washington Post has reported that a Nevada newspaper has been served a grand jury federal subpoena to

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Digital Britain Report Promises Universal Broadband Access, Requires ISPs to Cut Down on File Sharing
Written by Frederic Lardinois / June 16, 2009 8:56 AM / 6 Comments

Today, the UK government finally released its long-awaited Digital Britain report, which, among other things, confirms the government's

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China Blocks Access to Twitter, Flickr, Bing
Written by Frederic Lardinois / June 2, 2009 9:02 AM / 23 Comments

In preparation for the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre on June 4th, China has started to

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Orkut User Loses in Indian Supreme Court
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 25, 2009 3:58 AM / 10 Comments

The Supreme Court of India has denied legal protection to a 19 year old computer science student facing

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WikiLeaks Calls for Help in Taking Whistle Blower Site to Next Level
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 26, 2008 10:10 AM / 4 Comments

Wikileaks.org, a website that publishes classified, confidential, censored or otherwise secret documents for anyone to see, put out

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Podcaster Developer Uses Little-Known "Ad Hoc" Mode To Distribute Banned iPhone App
Written by Sarah Perez / September 14, 2008 6:30 PM / 54 Comments

Over the weekend, a debate raged across the tech blogosphere concerning the risks involved in developing for the

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A Bad Day for Apple: Banned iPhone Ads, Embarrassing Security Hole, and a Censored Comic
Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 27, 2008 10:23 AM / 7 Comments

For most companies, having to deal with one piece of bad publicity in a day is already bad

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Censorship: Yahoo, Microsoft, Google Agree on Code of Conduct
Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 5, 2008 12:13 PM / 2 Comments

With the start of the Olympics in Beijing being only a few days away, a lot of focus

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Facebook Censoring User Messaging: Spam Prevention or Unaccountable Control of Conversation?
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / May 21, 2008 3:27 PM / 25 Comments

Facebook and MySpace have replaced email for a substantial number of young people. Facebook, though, appears to believe

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Internet Censorship Coming to Russia
Written by Josh Catone / April 23, 2008 10:50 AM / 8 Comments

Russia, which is home to almost 30 million of Europe's 350 million Internet users may begin to extend

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WikiLeaks, Censorship and the Watchdog Web
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 18, 2008 2:54 PM

A very interesting site for whistle blowers called WikiLeaks is facing government censorship as today a California judge

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Poll: US Attitudes About Internet Are Insane
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / October 25, 2007 9:03 AM / 23 Comments

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Poll_US_Attitudes_About_Internet_Are_Insane'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Zogby International and 463 Communications released the results

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