Vietnam’s Temporary Facebook Ban Forced Vietnamese to Use Privacy Software
Vietnam enforced a Facebook ban for a week last month. Censorship is a tool most often used by those that understand it least. Fighting against censorship forces one to come…
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France Really Wants Google to Censor “Right to Be Forgotten” Search Results Worldwide
Google is currently fighting France over the most important internet censorship legal case this year - and it involves the controversial Right to Be Forgotten. Google has recently filed an…
European Parliament prepares for actual Internet Censorship using “Terrorism” as justification buzzword
Under the pretext of fighting terrorism, groups in the European Parliament wants to give police the power to censor the Internet and even individual accounts with social media providers at…
NSA has caused people to develop entirely new form of self-censorship
A Wikipedia study of readership show that people largely abstain from reading certain articles about terror groups after the NSA mass surveillance revelations of 2013, in fear of being redflagged…
German studies eight years ago show that surveillance brings horrible self-censorship. Why is this news to the US now?
Yesterday, a big study broke in the Washington Post about how a mass surveillance regime is dangerous to society, and shows it silences minority opinions when people know they're being…
Twitter Censorship of Drone Assassinations: Do We Need A Stronger “Mere Conduit” Accountability?
It was too conspiratorial to be true - links showing stories on the United States Drone Assassination Program weren't showing up on Twitter if you were accessing Twitter from United…
Norway’s Censorship Of The Pirate Bay Yet Another Uptick For VPNs And Alternate DNS
A Norwegian district court has seen it fit to order censorship of The Pirate Bay and other sites that are sometimes used to violate the entertainment distribution monopoly we know…
UK High Court Censors Many Links To Popcorn Time: Useless, Dangerous Gesture
A High Court in the UK has ordered several entire sites censored, at the request of the copyright industry, because they link to the Popcorn Time application. This is an…
Once Again, The Old World Doesn’t Understand That Unrestriction Is Just A VPN Away
Four pieces of news in the past week show just how little the lawmakers and courts continue to understand of the Internet: Australia introduced Data Retention, Spain ordered The Pirate…
French Court Says French Freedom Of Speech May Trump Facebook’s Censorship
A French court has ruled that a challenge to Facebook's terms of service under French law may go ahead in a French court. A man had had his account suspended…