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Iran: Female Blogger Receives 50 Lashes
Written by Fred Petrossian These are the words Iranian blogger Somayeh Tohidloo wrote [fa] in her blog after receiving 50 whip lashes in Evin Prison on September 14, 2011: Be happy, for if you wanted...
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Pirate Bay Founder Fails To Appear At Court of Appeal Hearing
The mystery surrounding the whereabouts of Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm deepened today. After failing to turn up for 2010′s hearing to appeal his 2009 conviction for criminal copyright...
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Inside the Surveillance State: How Peaceful Activists Get Swept Up onto...
TruthOut and ACLU Massachusetts / By Nancy Murray and Kade Crockford Sourced from AlterNet There appears to be no end to the appetite for data to be stored and mined, and all sorts of agencies want a...
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Russia: Cyber Security Code of Conduct?
Written by Alexey Sidorenko The year of 2011 has turned out to be a hot season for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA): the government is attempting to spread the system of Internet controls...
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Vietnam: Ambassador Urged to Press Rights
Congress members want a greater focus on human rights in Vietnam. More than a dozen U.S. lawmakers have urged the newly appointed American Ambassador to Vietnam to give a higher priority to raising...
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ACLU Marks Banned Websites Awareness Day with Report on LGBT Censorship in...
Public schools across the country are largely receptive to removing web filters that block educational content related to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, according to a new...
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Arab World: Nobel Peace Prize for Revolution Netizens?
Written by Amira Al Hussaini Twitter is abuzz with excitement tonight as the names of Arab netizens are being circulated as possible candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize for the roles they have played...
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Tunisian Internet Agency Admits to Testing Western Companies’ Censorship...
By: Qichen Zhang At the third annual Arab Bloggers Meeting this week, it was revealed that Tunisia has been secretly testing western companies’ censorship software. AB11′s website recently reported...
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The Pirate Bay Adds Domain to Bypass Court Order
Showing how futile Internet censorship can be, The Pirate Bay has registered a new domain name to allow Belgian users to access the site and bypass a recent court order. For just a few dollars, The...
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Russian Media Tests Boundaries Of State Censorship
Supporters of journalist Yuri Shchekochikhin believe he was poisoned because of his work. Written By Gregory Feifer October 7 marks the fifth anniversary of the assassination of “Novaya gazeta”...
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Burma Censorship Chief Calls for Press Freedom
The chief of Burma’s state censorship body has called for press freedom in the repressive nation, even suggesting his own department should be shut down. Tint Swe, director of the Press Scrutiny and...
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Dalai Lama Criticizes ‘Immoral’ Chinese Censorship
The Dalai Lama sharply criticized censorship in China as “immoral” during a video chat with Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu. The exiled Tibetan leader spoke with Tutu Saturday from Dharamsala, India....
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Report: Secret US Government Order Targets WikiLeaks Volunteer
A U.S. news report says the U.S. government obtained a secret court order to force Google Inc. and a small Internet provider to hand over information from the e-mail accounts of a WikiLeaks volunteer....
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Police Who Illegally Broke Into Gizmodo Journalist’s House Deride Seized...
Written By Matt Zimmerman The saga of the lost iPhone prototype — the 2010 incident at least, not the most recent one — has finally concluded. On Tuesday, Brian Hogan (who allegedly found the iPhone 4...
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China: Party Elders Meet, Debate ‘Culture’, Censorship
China’s Party plenum meets to discuss culture, despite a worsening economic crisis. China’s ruling Communist Party leaders are meeting in Beijing to debate ‘cultural reforms,’ which some interpret as a...
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Making the Internet Work for Human Rights: The Internet Rights and Principles...
EDITOR’S NOTE: This post was written by Dixie Hawtin, co-chair of the Dynamic Coalition on Internet Rights and Principles of the Internet Governance Forum. It is part of a new effort by Global Voices...
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Internet Censorship: Is a Declaration of Internet Freedom What the Internet...
Written by Jillian C. York Re-published from Global Voices under the Creative Commons License On July 4, a group of digital rights and other advocacy organizations unleashed a set of rights and...
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Internet Censorship: China’s Internet Censors for Sale
Written by Danny O’Brien – Re-published from eff.org (Creative Commons) What happens when a country’s government censors the entirety of its domestic web, with no oversight or transparency? It turns...
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Internet Censorship: New Internet Regulations Provide Window into North Korea
Foreigners living in and visiting North Korea can now access Twitter, Facebook, and other social media on their mobile phones, providing what could be an unprecedented, real-time view of the...
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Censorship in America: Senate Demands Answers About Aaron Swartz, But More...
Written by Mark Mm. Jaycox – Re-Published from eff.org (Creative Commons) The late Aaron Swartz, an influential internet activist, committed suicide on January 11, 2013. Projects Aaron worked on...
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