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Censorship

Youtube MP3 sites known for stream ripping, YTMP3 and MP3juices, block UK IP addresses

Updated on Jul 29, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Websites and extensions that facilitate Youtube MP3 conversions are disappearing in the United Kingdom (UK). Two large stream ripping sites, MP3juices and YTMP3 are now blocking UK IP addresses from…

Categories: Censorship, Copyright, General Privacy News, Governments

Big Canadian ISP is actually asking the Canadian Government for Internet censorship

Updated on Aug 6, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

Bell Canada, one of Canada's major ISPs, is requesting the Canadian government to create a governmental censorship regime, blacklisting resources that Canadians shall not be reading. According to Bell Canada,…

Categories: Censorship, Copyright, General Privacy News, Governments

South Korea considers blocking Tumblr

Updated on Jul 19, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Korea has threatened to block Tumblr should the site not cooperate with the South Korean government to censor pornographic content. The Korean government's position was revealed during a briefing held…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments

When Europe outsources censorship to Facebook and Twitter, who upholds free speech? And where’s the outrage?

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Rick Falkvinge

The European Commission is circumventing bans on governmental censorship by asking communciations platforms like Facebook and Twitter to agree to "voluntary codes of conduct", which all users would be held…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Social Media

India blocks the Internet Archive Wayback Machine in censorship overstep

Updated on Aug 3, 2021 by Caleb Chen

The hugely popular internet tool, the Wayback Machine by the Internet Archive, has been blocked by an Indian court order. India has a long history of blocking sites that are…

Categories: Censorship, Copyright, General Privacy News, Governments

Apple removes VPN apps from the Chinese App Store on government orders

Updated on Aug 6, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Today, Chinese iPhone users woke up to discover that censorship-defeating apps such as the Private Internet Access VPN app are no longer present in the Chinese Apple App store. The move…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments, VPN

Thousands march in Moscow, Russia to support Internet Freedom, protest VPN ban

Updated on Jul 30, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Over 2,000 protestors marched in Moscow, Russia over the weekend to protest the recent VPN ban and the tightening grip of internet censorship in Russia. The protest was in response…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments, VPN

In Xinjiang, China, police have set up checkpoints to ensure that the government-mandated “Jingwang” spyware is installed

Updated on Jul 29, 2021 by Caleb Chen

In Xinjiang, China, citizens are being forced to install a targeted surveillance mobile app called Jingwang. Additionally, the government has set up random checkpoints on the streets to check whether…

Categories: Censorship, Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments

Putting together the pieces of the Chinese VPN jigsaw puzzle

Updated on Aug 2, 2021 by Glyn Moody

VPNs are indispensable tools for today's Internet users, and nowhere more so than in China. The famous "Great Firewall of China" – the name given to the set of technologies…

Categories: Censorship, Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, VPN

In China, the government can censor the pics and memes you send to your friends via IM

Updated on Aug 6, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Chinese censorship has hit new dystopian levels. Internet censors in China are now able to delete an image sent from Party A to Party B, before the image makes it…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments
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