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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]
China web clampdown ahead of anniversary
News The Chinese authorities have tightened internet censorship ahead of Thursday's 60th anniversary of communist rule, according to reports. In a separate statement on 18 September, RWB said it was "very worried" about reports of a more powerful...
[October 1, 2009, 16:18]
Demon case -- ripples felt
News The Civil liberties Web site, Campaign Against Censorship of the Internet in Britain (CACIB) claims it has been censored as a direct result of the Demon defamation case of last month. It breaks my heart that the company I started is forced into...
[April 11, 2000, 9:33]
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]
Aussie ISPs held responsible for content
News In a statement issued Friday, the Electronic Frontiers Australia, an anti-censorship group, attacked Alston's regime as "ignorant" and "draconian" -- claiming it will make material that is legal offline illegal on the Internet.
[March 23, 1999, 7:48]
Shareholders lay into Yahoo boss
News While they blasted him during a question-and-answer session, shareholders followed the recommendations of the board in rejecting proposals calling for Yahoo to link executive pay with the company's financial performance; oppose internet censorship...
[June 13, 2007, 10:53]
Australia censors the Net
News The passing of the legislation puts Australia in the same league as countries like Saudi Arabia and Singapore that also have censorship laws for the Internet. Local programming site 2600.org.au has developed a guide that advises Internet users how...
[July 2, 1999, 9:16]
AltaVista has overreacted, say privacy experts
News The Internet is not a children's playground, and trying to pretend that it is substantially undermines the purpose of the Internet," argued Malcolm Hutty, director of the Campaign against Censorship in Britain.
[February 16, 2001, 9:54]
Internet giants agree Beijing 'code of conduct'
News The impending Olympic games have increased questions about internet censorship in China, especially after Chinese officials tried to block journalists there for the games from accessing certain sites, even after the Chinese government assured...
[August 6, 2008, 10:33]
Aussie censors zap 27 sites
News Under the Australian regime -- introduced on 1 January 2000, after the country's conservative Coalition government passed an Internet censorship amendment to the Broadcasting Services Act on 30 June 1999 -- the ABA's regulators only investigate a...
[March 20, 2000, 9:13]
Yahoo! yields to Chinese Web laws
News If this called for a form of self-censorship beyond laws that exist in China, we would have serious questions. on Tuesday defended its decision to sign off on voluntary content limitations in China, a move that critics say opens the door to online...
[August 14, 2002, 11:23]
Online booksellers defend right to sell banned books
News David Kerr, director of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) -- the UK's independent Internet watchdog -- says that although this is not an issue of Internet censorship, it may indicate we are moving closer to international regulation of the Internet.
[August 10, 1999, 13:51]
ISPs stand firm after P2P ruling
News Any kind of censorship of the internet has to be at the government level — ISPs are not law enforcement. What we wouldn't want is corporate censorship. The Internet Service Providers' Association has repeated its assertion that ISPs should not be...
[July 11, 2007, 12:13]
A Year Ago: Online booksellers defend right to sell banned books
News David Kerr, director of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) -- the UK's independent Internet watchdog -- says that although this is not an issue of Internet censorship, it may indicate we are moving closer to international regulation of the Internet.
[August 11, 2000, 7:07]
MPs ponder whether 'benign' hacking should be legal
News If a successor to David Blunkett was going to introduce tough censorship laws on the use of the Internet in the UK, should someone be able to justify a hacking attack against the IT involved because they opposed that censorship," asked Allan, who...
[April 26, 2004, 17:25]
AT&T exec: Net is full of hate
News Ironically, considering the flap that ensued, Hindery specifically said he was not calling for government censorship of such Web sites. Berman, clearly angered, told the AT&T Broadband chief that, "The weight of your message leads right back to...
[August 25, 1999, 9:30]
Keep Internet out of UN control, says US
News But he ventured even further by warning that if governance functions were handed to bureaucrats from oppressive nations, the Internet would become "an instrument of censorship and political suppression.
[October 19, 2005, 10:05]
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]
Amnesty condemns tech firms over human rights
News The human rights group also alleged that Internet hardware companies Cisco and Sun had collaborated with the Chinese communist regime by providing and maintaining technologies that have been used for censorship.
[June 1, 2006, 15:30]
Web of Porn: Adult pornography - the debate rages
News Such views clash with myriad anti-porn organisations who deem censorship of unsavoury material necessary -- something Caroll believes is an ignorant and dangerous reaction to pornography leading to repression, which in turn leads to sex crimes...
[March 9, 1999, 12:47]
