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Censorship

Court approves Australian #siteblock on The Pirate Bay, Solarmovie, Torrentz, TorrentHound, IsoHunt, and others

Updated on Jul 15, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Australian Federal Court has ordered that 61 websites associated with The Pirate Bay, IsoHunt, TorrentHound, SolarMovie, and Torrentz, be blocked by Australia’s internet service providers (ISPs). Australian internet users have…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments

Ahead of 2022 World Cup, Qatar doubles down on internet censorship and blocks independent news website

Updated on Aug 6, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Last week, an independent news website in Qatar, Doha News, discovered that they had been blocked in Qatar. While there has been no official news on why this block has…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News

Under new law, UK could force ISPs to block Reddit

Updated on Jul 30, 2021 by Caleb Chen

The UK government will soon have the power to block any website that doesn’t properly verify your age with a piece of private, personally identifiable information such as your social…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media

Tired of people circumventing social media blocks, Turkey calls for VPN ban

Updated on Jul 30, 2021 by Caleb Chen

As of a few hours ago, there's a new VPN ban in Turkey. Turkey's Information and Communication Technologies Authority has issued an order to Turkish Internet service providers (ISPs) telling them…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Social Media, VPN

The UK National Cyber Security Centre wants to build a “Great Firewall of Britain”

Updated on Jul 30, 2021 by Caleb Chen

London Bridge isn’t falling, but it seems that a “Great Firewall of Britain” might be going up. Ciaran Martin, CEO of United Kingdom’s new cybersecurity watchdog, National Cyber Security Centre…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments

Norwegian politicians want to censor the Internet, because Rule 34 (“because all the pornography”)

Updated on Aug 3, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

Norwegian politicians from the Christian People's Party are shocked that there is porn on the Internet, and want it eliminated - censored off all the Internet pipes as though the…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments

Turkey blocks Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter… again

Updated on Jul 15, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Starting Thursday, 11:07PM local time in Turkey, internet users started reporting that Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter had been blocked. Internet users in Turkey were forced to use a VPN to…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media

A History of Media Control and Media Blackouts in Coups d’Etat

Updated on Jul 16, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

With the information disarray coming out of Turkey during the (seemingly failed) military coup, we see the same pattern of attempting to control media as we've seen for the past…

Categories: Censorship, Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media

Turkey blocks Facebook and Twitter following military coup to unseat Erdogan

Updated on Jul 27, 2021 by Caleb Chen

The Turkey coup to unseat Erdogan has predictably resulted in social media censorship as the Turkish government and military start firing shots. The two major bridges leading in and out…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media

Apple patents technology enabling police to prevent iPhones from filming police abuse

Updated on Jul 1, 2015 by Rick Falkvinge

Apple has been awarded a patent for making your camera refuse to record what it's seeing if it also sees something akin to an infrared strobe light. The intention is…

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