The Beijing city government said on Friday it would tighten control over popular microblogs that have vexed authorities with their rapid dissemination of news, giving users three months to register … [Read more...]
Russian cyberchief says the internet must have “reasonable regulation”
Thursday, 15 December 2011 By
The Internet must be subject to "reasonable regulation," the head of Russia's Security Council said in remarks published on Wednesday, a fresh sign of Kremlin concern about the use of social networks … [Read more...]
U.S. “virtual embassy” blocked by Iran net censor
Friday, 9 December 2011 By
Iranian authorities blocked a website Wednesday hours after it was launched by the U.S. State Department to be a "virtual embassy" reaching out to people in the Islamic Republic. "In accordance … [Read more...]
China tells US to stop whining about internet censorship
Friday, 21 October 2011 By
China's long history of Internet censorship is what's best for the public, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told reporters yesterday. According to Reuters, which spoke with Yu in an … [Read more...]
US asks China why their national firewall blocks so many US companies
Thursday, 20 October 2011 By
The United States is pressing China to explain why its "national firewall" blocks so many U.S. companies from providing their services via the Internet, according to a letter obtained on Wednesday … [Read more...]
Chinese police to use blogs to give “correct” information to the public
Tuesday, 27 September 2011 By
More Chinese police should use microblogs to give the public "correct" facts and release authorized information to dispel misunderstandings, the Ministry of Public Security said on Monday, in a new … [Read more...]
Asian nations get aware that internet is not easily tamed
Friday, 16 September 2011 By
It's not just dictators. Governments around the world, many of them popularly elected, have tried for years to control the Internet and social media, dismayed by their potential to incite violence, … [Read more...]
Chinese internet activist gets nine month jail sentence
Friday, 9 September 2011 By
Chinese rights activist Wang Lihong was sentenced to nine months in jail on Friday in a case that has drawn condemnation from critics who see her as a victim of the Communist Party's crackdown on … [Read more...]
Chinese party paper warns that opinion is increasingly shaped by internet influences
Friday, 2 September 2011 By
China's Communist Party control is at risk unless the government takes firmer steps to stop Internet opinion being shaped by increasingly organized political foes, a team of party writers warned in a … [Read more...]
Kazakhstan cuts off 13 “extremist” sites
Monday, 22 August 2011 By
A court in Kazakhstan (the country where Borat came from, remember ? :) ) ruled on Friday to block access to 13 foreign Internet sites, including the popular blogging service LiveJournal, saying they … [Read more...]
Mass protests in Turkey against internet censorship
Tuesday, 17 May 2011 By
Thousands of people in more than 30 cities around Turkey took to the streets on Sunday to protest a new system of filtering the Internet that opponents consider censorship. The Information and … [Read more...]
China announces new State Internet Information Office to regulate the internet
Thursday, 5 May 2011 By
China announced a new State Internet Information Office on Wednesday to unify the squabbling agencies that oversee the Chinese Internet, which Beijing views as both a potential gold mine and a … [Read more...]
Free Web Content Filtering for your home (and small businesses)
Thursday, 28 April 2011 By
Web filtering is possibly the most controversial category of products we are listing in our free security software series. As a parent of a couple of adolescents I feel the need to protect my … [Read more...]
Putin says he has no plans (yet?) to crack down on the internet
Thursday, 21 April 2011 By
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Wednesday said he had no plans to crack down on the Internet ahead of 2012 elections, seeking to play down concerns over recent hacker attacks on a blogging … [Read more...]
British nuke sub secrets exposed after stupid publishing error
Tuesday, 19 April 2011 By
The Daily Telegraph reports that Secret information from at least three separate government departments is available on the internet because of incompetent handling of sensitive material by Whitehall … [Read more...]
