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Wind up the Internet Watch Foundation
Leader If this had been a case of pure censorship, then we would have the luxury of discussion over time. It has illustrated the futility of censorship in an open society, and the damage done by forcing it closed.
[December 8, 2008, 15:42]
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]
China bans AltaVista searches
News Barnett said he became aware of minor censorship from China in recent months but the site has been blocked more broadly in the last week. Chinese citizens attempting to get around the censorship can find workarounds, however, including through a...
[September 10, 2002, 9:43]
Flickr changes copyright take-down policy
News Among those to criticise the move were Thomas Hawk, an outspoken critic of what he sees as Flickr censorship and the chief executive of Flickr rival Zooomr. Under the DMCA, a party holding copyright to a photo or other work can request that a...
[September 3, 2009, 12:42]
How the Democrats' win affects tech
News On a wealth of topics — net neutrality, digital copyright, merger approval, data retention, Internet censorship — a Capitol Hill controlled by Democrats should yield a shift in priorities on technology-related legislation.
[November 10, 2006, 10:20]
Liberty groups blast Net ratings proposal
News Censorship on the Net takes centre stage at an international conference Thursday and has already drawn fire from free-speech campaigners. Our system is quite the opposite of censorship as it empowers users and gives them the tools to control what...
[September 9, 1999, 16:37]
Amnesty slams IT giants for Chinese 'hypocrisy'
News But in practice the companies have bowed to censorship demands from China's ruling Communist Party, the report says. Amnesty International upped its already-harsh criticism of Internet companies on Wednesday by accusing Google, Microsoft and Yahoo...
[July 20, 2006, 17:40]
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]
Google keeps up porn probe battle
News Google's opposition raised eyebrows last month after it stood up to the US government but capitulated to censorship demands from China's ruling Communist Party. Google lashed out at the US Justice Department on Friday, saying that a high-profile...
[February 20, 2006, 8:05]
Police: Not enough evidence for paedophile crackdown
News Cyberliberty activist Malcolm Hutty, director for the Campaign against Censorship of the Internet in Britain, contributed to the ICF study, but warned against attempts to quantify the risks posed by Internet paedophiles.
[March 22, 2001, 11:25]
Software tunnels through great Firewall of China
News In November, Amnesty International named 33 companies including Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and Cisco Systems that it said were providing the Chinese with technology to achieve its Internet censorship aims.
[April 16, 2003, 15:49]
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]
Skype denies knowledge of China security issues
News And he said it is "common knowledge that censorship does exist in China". Keywords that triggered action included words related to Taiwanese independence, the banned religious group Falun Gong, and political opposition to the Chinese Communist Party.
[October 6, 2008, 10:06]
China orders plug for hole in Green Dam
News The censorship software has been downloaded over 3.5 million times since August 2008, according to its makers Jinhui Computer System Engineering. In addition, they said the filter contains a backdoor that could allow the software's manufacturer or...
[June 16, 2009, 15:42]
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]
Skype Spying Debacle
Blog The CEO of Skype whines about the fact that censorship and monitoring are "common knowledge" in China, but GOSH, GASP, we never knew they would do THIS, Mr. Put another way, Skype "loves" their customers so much, that they will help a repressive...
[October 12, 2008, 18:03]
Tuesday
Blog And, sweetest of all, the Lib Dem's consultation paper on censorship has fallen foul of the silicon Mary Whitehouse. I'm unlikely to vote for him -- or indeed any party that supports teaching fundamentalist religion to children in the guise of...
[February 7, 2003, 17:02]
Experts: Chinese censorware carries botnet risk
News Experts have warned of serious security flaws in the Chinese government's censorship software, which could open the door to hackers creating huge botnets. This problem would allow Green Dam's makers, or a third-party impersonating them, to execute...
[June 12, 2009, 14:56]
Hackers flexing political muscles
News Meanwhile, cDc member "Oxblood Ruffin" announced that he, in conjunction with an international group of hackers and as yet unnamed social justice groups, was developing a Web application that should enable users to get around censorship and...
[July 17, 2000, 9:02]
Google admits omitting Chinese news links
News According to the English version of The Epoch Times Web site, it publishes content that is banned by the Chinese Communist Party and deemed "too sensitive" by most Chinese-language news organisations outside of China.
[September 27, 2004, 11:45]
