Human rights groups are urging Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft not to become complicit in Internet censorship, declaring 12 March World Day Against Cyber Censorship. Read more here
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Stop the use of lèse majesté in Thailand. Defend freedom of speech
We, the undersigned, oppose the use of lese majeste in Thailand in order to prevent freedom of speech and academic freedom. We demand that the government cease all proceedings in lese majeste cases. The 19th September 2006 military coup in Thailand...
Watching Me, Watching You
Government data retention plans will make life difficult for Britain's investigative journalists, says Bill Thompson The UK government’s decision to press forward with implementation of the European Union directive on data retention by...
Sticks ‘n’ stones may break my bones
On Sunday I was invited to the London Regional Meeting of UK Youth Parliament at Tower Hamlets Town Hall to give a brief presentation about freedom of expression. This was triggered by an article in Debatable UKYP's magazine stating that 90 per...
Wikipedia page blocked over image of naked child.
A Wikipedia page showing an image of an album cover by German heavy metal band The Scorpions has been blocked following allegations of potential illegality. The Internet Watch Foundation has said the image, which shows a naked pre-pubescent girl,...
Belarus Free Theatre runner up in Freedom to Create prize
We are delighted that Belarus Free Theatre (BFT) nominated by Index for the ArtVenture Freedom to Create prize wre runners up in the main prize category of the inaugural awards. Tom Stoppard, a long-time supporter of the theatre company, handed...
An imprecise and unwelcome art
Internet filtering, no matter how modern, serves the same purposes as censorship always has, says Egbert Dommering Filtering is the latest form of censorship. By filtering we mean the technical blockages of the free flow of information across the...
Kalima website hacked; Index award winner attacked again
The independent Tunisian online magazine Kalima has suffered an attack that has completely destroyed its web content, and in a separate but related incident, its editor – Index Award winner Sihem Bensedrine – has been abused by police in the street.
Science shouldn’t shut down discussion
The furore over Michael Reiss’s comments on creationism signify a worrying tendency that is bad for academic freedom and for science, says Steve Fuller On 16 September, Michael Reiss (pictured) resigned from his post as director of education at the...
Tunisian journalist sues over Facebook censorship
Blogger and journalist Ziad El Heni last week filed a lawsuit against the Tunisian Internet Agency for blocking the social networking website Facebook. He sees the blocking, which took place on 18 August, as a violation of his rights to freedom of...
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