The Internet is touted by many to be, of necessity, free and open – invulnerable to tampering, censorship, or control by any single entity. I also pointed out that the amount of information that's available on most of us that frequent the Internet...
The firm ceased issuing the warnings in early December, according to a report from Chinese censorship monitoring group Greatfire.org, and has removed supporting information from its about pages. What could be the reason for Google to switch off...
The ITU refuted the idea that they want to increase censorship and regulate the Internet in a blog post: The site encourages users to take part in governance efforts and make their voices heard through various campaigns aimed at stopping web...
In the comparison, they find that searches on terms such as the “Tiananmen Square Incident” netted uncensored results without censorship notices where Baidu restricted the search results. Just a little background for you, Qihoo 360 Technology Co.is...
Facebook has also long fought against government censorship. Google's co-founder Sergey Brin in April applauded the social networking site for its refusal to give in to government censorship. Technology giants – and often competitors – Google...
Katz has included Google in the lawsuit this time because he filed a DMCA request over the picture of him sticking his tongue out and they refused to bow to his demand for censorship. What are these people thinking, that they own the Internet?
Unfortunately, most social media sites and other popular sites exclude Baidu’s spiders due to the Chinese internet censorship. With more than 500 million Internet users, China is by far the world’s largest online market.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has repeated warnings that the greatest threat to Internet freedom is government censorship focused on crushing political dissent, and warned that attacks against online piracy are “misguided and dangerous”.
Conflating Internet censorship and Google’s biggest competitors is a bit lazy, and it makes Brin seem wistful and out of touch. Google co-founder Sergey Brin has warned against the growing number of restrictions on the Internet arising from...
AK Zensur, the German Working Group Against Access Blocking and Censorship, has been fighting the Danish block list for years, condemning the act of domain blocking by DNS hijacking as “looking away instead of acting.
Iran’s government seems to be ramping up its censorship of popular websites, targeting Google’s encrypted search, Gmail, YouTube, and Google Videos, among others. VPNs (virtual private networks) used to be a solution for Internet users, but this...
The petition, which is still available via Google’s End Piracy, Not Liberty website, warned the millions who visit Google every day how the two anti-piracy bills would result in censorship and hurt American businesses: “Sign this petition urging...
The apparent inclusion of search blocking, widely regarded as Internet censorship. Smith said in response to the White House’s show of opposition to the bill in its current form, "It is not censorship to enforce the law against foreign thieves.
To call attention to two bills that would result in massive web censorship and hurt American businesses, Google today has carried through on its promise to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) by blacking out its...
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt called piracy solutions “draconian” and “censorship. Like many businesses, entrepreneurs, and Web users, we oppose these bills because there are smart, targeted ways to shut down foreign rogue websites without...
WordPress urged their 60 million users to visit Stop American Censorship and take action against SOPA 41 senators are needed to block the vote. Marketers who engage in fake reviews, falsified comments, puppet accounts and misleading tactics don't...
While there are plenty of legitimate worries to bring up here, I want to remind you that you're probably not as unilaterally opposed to censorship as you think; you're probably just opposed to certain types of censorship.
There’s a bill that would require ISPs to remove URLs from the Web, which is also known as censorship last time I checked. So now, as we again debate Web censorship, let's ask ourselves: what next generation of innovations won't be realized if we...
When governments have tried to regulate Internet access, the results have been unpopular, relatively unsuccessful, and have led to international uproars about censorship. As SEMPO puts it, the web functions "much more like the press than it is like...
In addition to self-censorship requirements from the Chinese government (which required Google to block gambling sites, pornography, and any content deemed critical of the communist government), China moved to block access to YouTube in 2009.
