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…
Pornhub.com and Youporn.com, two of the largest porn websites in the world, are now blocked for Russian internet users. The block order comes from the Roskomnadzor, or Russia’s Federal Service…
Reactions have been all over the map about the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling on the legality of hyperlinks to infringing material. Some outlets despair that links can be…
In a fresh and mostly welcomed decision, the European Court of Justice - the highest court in the European Union - has ruled that hyperlinking is legal, even when linking…
The Indian government has clarified that simply visiting blocked websites, viewing a torrent magnet link, or streaming a pirated movie is not illegal and will not result in fines or…
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…
This week, copyright trolls in Sweden announced they'll start sending extortion letters later this year to people who have been sharing music and movies. It follows an all too familiar…
The TTIP is all but dead: it will never happen. That's my professional political opinion after Germany and France have said that it's stalled and called for its scrapping, respectively.…
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…
In a new level of dumb, Germany and France are demanding strong encryption for all citizens at the same time as they demand this strong encryption to be breakable. They…