Emily Butselaar: Let’s take back the internet! Rebecca MacKinnon at TED
Let’s take back the internet! Rebecca MacKinnon at TED
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Australian internet providers employ censors
Australian service providers, including Telstra and Optus, will voluntarily block websites deemed by the government as showing and disseminating child pornography. Those who attempt to access the blacklisted sites will be redirected to the site of...
Beyond Belief – an introduction
The policing of freedom of expression is the story within the story within the story in this case study. In 2004, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti’s play Behzti (Dishonour) was cancelled after demonstrations against it turned violent and its staging was deemed...
Ahead of Party anniversary, China poisons the internet
Today, 1 July, is the Communist Party's 90th birthday. In celebration, Chinese web censors have been working feverishly to tighten their control of the internet. Those of us who try to sidestep the Great Firewall with a VPN, a service that allows...
France on its way to total Internet censorship?
New laws could could give French authorities web-blocking powers unrivaled in the democratic world. Félix Tréguer reports
‘Voluntary’ website blocking scheme threatens free expression
Leaked documents have revealed British government plans that could seriously affect web users. Peter Bradwell reports
Global internet freedom begins at home
Western policymakers must proceed with caution when considering online surveillance and web-blocking; their actions impact on human rights abroad, argues Cynthia Wong
Uganda: Website editor charged with criminal libel
A journalist appeared in Kampala Magistrates Court yesterday charged with criminal libel. Timothy Kalyegira, the editor of Uganda Record, a website which has been critical of the country’s governing National Resistance Movement. Kalyegira was...
WikiLeaks not so simple to replicate after all
Emily Badger: WikiLeaks not so simple to replicate after all
Testing academic freedom
Three years later, the Nottingham University “terrorism” row rumbles on —- first reading was made a crime, now internal criticism. Jane Fae reports
Petitions, letters, and press releases from Index on Censorship