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Google: Censorship should be trade barrier
News Internet censorship should be treated as a barrier to trade, according to the chief executive of search and advertising giant Google. Speaking last week at a conference organised by US thinktank the Progress & Freedom Foundation, Eric Schmidt said...
[August 28, 2007, 13:34]
The blogosphere strikes back at censorship
News Indian bloggers are railing against censorship after reports that the Indian Government has instructed Internet service providers (ISPs) to block access to blogs on blogspot.com and typepad.com, and to Web sites on GeoCities, as a security measure...
[July 20, 2006, 14:25]
Microsoft blog service sparks censorship dodging
News MSN Spaces, Microsoft's new blogging service, has sparked a new game -- trying to circumvent its censorship controls. However, like so many censorship tools down the ages, Microsoft's is proving less than perfect.
[December 3, 2004, 17:00]
Microsoft blog service sparks censorship dodging
Talkback If you think MS blogging is the first example of people trying to get round censorship then you haven't played everquest.I've seen characters with names such as Friza Balzoff etc.
[December 5, 2004, 12:21]
Google's censorship struggles continue in China
News Google's formal entry into China in 2006 with Google.cn forced the company to strike a difficult balance between its stated goal of making the world's information widely available and the requirement that all internet companies doing business in...
[June 17, 2009, 14:41]
Australian controversy over government Web censorship
News In Australia the Code of Practice that forces ISPs to filter information on the Web has been branded "government endorsed privatised censorship" by the civil liberties group Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA).
[July 3, 2000, 9:31]
Symantec labels anti-censorship software a Trojan
News The move raises the question of whether antivirus technology should be used to support government censorship. Symantec's Norton AntiVirus product has blacklisted software that allows users in China to access government-blocked Web sites.
[September 15, 2004, 13:00]
Far-reaching censorship law challenged
News Their lawsuit claims that the state law's "secret censorship orders" have led to more than 1 million Web sites being blocked, nearly all featuring legal material. That practice of address sharing means that one censorship order can affect thousands...
[January 7, 2004, 10:05]
Report: China wants censorship software on PCs
News Internet censorship in China took centre stage last year during the Beijing Olympic Games when it was revealed that the International Olympic Committee had cut a deal to let the Chinese government block international journalists' access to...
[June 8, 2009, 9:16]
The IWF an unlected censorship organisation
Talkback Regarding the Wikipedia censorship, the IWF textually says "the image has been around for a long time", so it is OK to unblock it. Either it is child porn or it is not, the fact that it has been around for a long time means nothing, there are lots...
[February 20, 2009, 21:25]
Google, Yahoo battle Argentina search-censorship
News In other instances, however, they call for broad restrictions such as censorship of "scandalous material". Arebalos said Google is appealing the court orders because it amounts to "censorship if we block all references to a person, because a lot of...
[November 12, 2008, 8:19]
Censorship on the intarwebs
Talkback Hence that whole "I may hate what you say but I'd die for your right to say it" malarkey - it's the only manageable approach to the matter, unless you'd like to have a genuinely democratic poll between all humanity on each subject up for censorship.
[January 25, 2008, 12:05]
Microsoft staff defend blog censorship
News Microsoft, Yahoo and others are helping to institutionalise and legitimise the integration of censorship into the global IT business model. A senior Microsoft manager has defended the decision to remove the blog of a Chinese journalist from the...
[January 5, 2006, 16:45]
Is freedom from censorship more precious than life?
Talkback OK, there will be governments who use censorship to muzzle free speech, but please remember there are those who regard incitement to racial and religious hatred as "free speech". I am glad to see that the front page of The Times: "Scramble to curb...
[January 26, 2008, 10:21]
Google bows to Chinese censorship
Talkback Censorship and oppression are Chinese exports we can definitely do without, and although Google's actions do not affect us directly here in the UK, I believe it is important for us all to show the Chinese authorities that their standards in this...
[February 2, 2006, 18:43]
UK ISPs switch on mass Wikipedia censorship
Blog This is the first I've come across UK wide internet censorship, and I'm shocked. The following notice has appeared on Wikipedia today when many UK users attempt to edit content: Wikipedia has been added to a Internet Watch Foundation UK website...
[December 6, 2008, 22:50]
Yahoo calls for help over Web censorship
News Internet giant Yahoo has called for Internet, communications, and media organisations to work with the US government over Chinese censorship online, the Financial Times reported on Monday. The company wants the US government to step into the row...
[February 13, 2006, 15:30]
Google bows to Chinese censorship
News Google is not the only US search firm targeted with complaints about censorship in China. Angered by such reports, some US politicians have threatened to pass laws restricting US companies from cooperating with the Chinese government on censorship.
[January 25, 2006, 7:25]
Gates warns on the futility of censorship
Talkback I am boycotting Microsoft as a result of their cooperation with the Chinese goverment with regard to censorship. Gates is perhaps right that censorship is futile and that information will be distributed anyway.
[February 2, 2006, 18:58]
Microsoft blog service sparks censorship dodging
Talkback Essentially, you're going to moan if they take the censorship off and you're going to moan if they make it harsher. There's 2 complaints here then? One that says they shouldnt censor Spaces and another that says they shouldnt allow the words that...
[December 4, 2004, 10:01]
