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Censorship

Vietnam’s Temporary Facebook Ban Forced Vietnamese to Use Privacy Software

Updated on Jul 15, 2021 by Caleb Chen

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…

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

France Really Wants Google to Censor “Right to Be Forgotten” Search Results Worldwide

Updated on Jul 15, 2021 by Caleb Chen

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…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News

European Parliament prepares for actual Internet Censorship using “Terrorism” as justification buzzword

Updated on Aug 5, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

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…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News

NSA has caused people to develop entirely new form of self-censorship

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Rick Falkvinge

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…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News

German studies eight years ago show that surveillance brings horrible self-censorship. Why is this news to the US now?

Updated on Aug 5, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

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…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Surveillance

Twitter Censorship of Drone Assassinations: Do We Need A Stronger “Mere Conduit” Accountability?

Updated on Jul 30, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

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…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Social Media

Norway’s Censorship Of The Pirate Bay Yet Another Uptick For VPNs And Alternate DNS

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Rick Falkvinge

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…

Categories: Censorship, Copyright, General Privacy News, VPN

UK High Court Censors Many Links To Popcorn Time: Useless, Dangerous Gesture

Updated on Jul 30, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

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…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News

Once Again, The Old World Doesn’t Understand That Unrestriction Is Just A VPN Away

Updated on Aug 3, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

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…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, VPN

French Court Says French Freedom Of Speech May Trump Facebook’s Censorship

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Rick Falkvinge

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…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Social Media
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