Change.org, a website which runs an online petition calling for the release of Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei, has been hit by DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks. The website had managed to collect over 90,000 signatures for their petition....
Thanthawut Taweewarodomkul, who operated an anti-government website, has been sentenced to 13 years in prison on charges of lese majeste and breaching the Computer Crime Act. He was arrested in April 2010, during the anti-government Red Shirt...
Tursunjan Hezim, Uighur editor of well known website Bilik, has reportedly been given a seven-year prison sentence. The sentence was handed down for unknown charges at a secret trial in July 2010, but has only been made public now. Hezim had been...
Emily Badger: Thousands of websites blocked in child porn bungle
The case of Chiranuch Premchaiporn, the webmaster on trial in Bangkok, has far-reaching implications for freedom of speech – not just in Thailand, but in the wider region too, argues Gayathry Venkiteswaran
Remarks delivered by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at George Washington University, 15 February 2011 Thank you all very much and good afternoon. It is a pleasure, once again, to be back on the campus of the George Washington University, a...
Padraig Reidy: Clinton web speech – preview
Joe McNamee: EU parliament votes against pointless blocking and for child protection
Jo Glanville: US Wikileaks fishing expedition undermines free web commitment
Iranian authorities have sentenced a web designer to death for allegedly creating a pornographic website. Canadian resident Saeed Malekpour, 35, was convicted of "designing and moderating adult content websites," "agitation against the regime" in...
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