The company said that the feature was designed to protect the anonymity of individuals in potentially dangerous situations, such as anti-government protests. YouTube has added the ability for users to blur the faces of people appearing in videos...
News of the websites are being blacked out comes a year after the 2011 Iranian protests, which were filled with death, injuries, and arrests. Iran’s government seems to be ramping up its censorship of popular websites, targeting Google’s encrypted...
The public backlash against this dangerous legislation was swift and powerful; tens of millions were affected, millions were inspired to reactthrough protests. Even in his January 20 statement condemning the shelving of SOPA and criticizing the...
What’s New - Despite Protests, Rep. The amended bill addressed some of the more glaring and troublesome issues, but it’s just not enough, hence the ongoing protests and calls to flat out kill the bill.
But yesterday Google led the protests against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) being discussed at the House Judiciary Committee. You'd think Google wouldn't want to antagonize another branch of the federal government.
Maybe so, unless you lived in 2009 Iran during the protests of what was seen as the illegitimate re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. So, who is going to control the trusted identities for government transactions and the identity ecosystem?
While social media has recently been associated with such events as the Middle Eastern political upheaval, the start of these protests needed a lot of obvious conditions that could have been monitored offline prior to their involvement in the...
In other words, it's not the hammer and sickle – it's the banhammer and sickle being used so frequently to block information on riots, protests, and anything critical of the Chinese government. Most recently, China blocked any Chinese search for...
Business in most cities in Egypt had a hard time during the protests and the government did not help. Overthrown Egypt President Hosini Mubarak was fined over $33 million US dollars by his country's court for cutting off access to the internet and...
Google Map Tracks Protests in Libya by Thom Craver An activist and active Twitterer from Iran has created a Google map of the violence and protests and shared it publicly to chronicle the protest reports on the ground as they happen.
This was evident and a reason for why the Egyptian government shut down Internet services during the Egyption protests. Twitter had played an enormous role in the recent protests in Africa. An activist and active Twitterer from Iran has created a...
With all of the claims that Google is engaging with the protests for freedom in the Middle East - two of their employees were active in the Egyptian overthrow of the government - it would have been nice to see Google use this Doodle to also...
Yes, a person or more, who worked at Google were involved in the protests in Egypt, and yes one set up the Facebook account that information about protests was distributed, but Google the company had nothing to do with it.
The protests were initially "inspired by the civilian overthrow of Tunisia's president. But this month, shortly after the Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was brought down following weeks of grassroots protests inspired by Bouazizi's self...
Ghonim has become a big part of the protests in Cairo, with the anti-government group occupying Tahrir Square refusing to leave until he is released, the Wall Street Journal reported. Ghonim wrote on his personal Facebook profile for friends after...
As protests continue and the Egyptian government blocks access to the internet, Google created a workaround over the weekend so people can access Twitter via phone calls and leave updates. YouTube has been flooded with videos from the Egyptian...
I realize this statement borders on reductio ad absurdum, but the protest over the YouTube homepage layout shows less civility than the Egyptian protests over three decades of systematic and brutal repression in Egypt.
As protests continue and the Egyptian government blocks access to the internet, Google created a workaround over the weekend so people can access Twitter via phone calls and leave updates, the company's official blog announced.
Interest from outside the country is high, while in Egypt the protests have started. Protests in Egypt broke out after opposition groups waged an internet campaign inspired by the Tunisian uprising. One response the government has taken is to block...
During the protests that followed the election results, the Iranian government shut down every type of traditional media outlet and even spied on online forums and social networks. Which, in light of the Iran protests, strongly suggests that US...
