Bucking a trend of official anxiety over the explosive growth of microblogs in the country, Beijing's Communist Party Chief urged China's internet companies to put an end to the spread of fake and harmful information when he visited major internet...
A major Chinese online commerce site, Taobao.com, has banned sales of software used to bypass internet censorship. The site said it took the action on its own and received no official orders. A notice on the site said virtual private networks...
Hackers launched a sustained attack against pro-democracy website Viet Tan on 13 August in a denial-of-service (DDoS) operation. Of the 77,000 IP addresses employed, 73 per cent originated from Vietnam. The Hanoi government's firewall on...
Bahraini authorities have blocked access to the website of the Bahrain Justice and Development Movement, a London-based group consisting mainly of Bahraini exiles that denounces human rights violations in the country and advocates democratic...
Technology giant Cisco is being sued by Chinese political prisoners for allegedly providing the technology and expertise used by the Chinese Communist Party to monitor, censor and suppress the country's citizens. Cisco, while rejecting the...
According to Radio Netherlands Worldwide, Saudi Arabian listeners have been unable to access their websites. While no official reason has been given for the block, the station believes that it may be linked to a video posted on the Arabic version...
Argentina's National Criminal Court has issued an interim order to block a website and blog used to expose corruption and ordered the National Communications Commission to instruct all internet service providers to temporarily block access to them....
India's Department of Telecommunications has been asked to monitor Twitter and Facebook, because of fears that the sites are being used to plan terrorist attacks. In April, the Indian Information Technology (IT) Act of 2008 was amended, giving...
Emily Badger: US record on internet freedom “shameful”?
The UK government’s dropping of blocking plans are to be welcomed, says
Peter Bradwell. But there are questions over what happens next with web copyright
Petitions, letters, and press releases from Index on Censorship