According to Radio Netherlands Worldwide, Saudi Arabian listeners have been unable to access their websites. While no official reason has been given...
Saudi Arabia: Radio Netherlands Worldwide websites blocked
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CATEGORY: Digital Freedom
Argentina: Judge orders all ISPs to block corruption reporting website
Argentina's National Criminal Court has issued an interim order to block a website and blog used to expose corruption and ordered the National...
India: Government wants to monitor social networking websites
India's Department of Telecommunications has been asked to monitor Twitter and Facebook, because of fears that the sites are being used to plan...
US record on internet freedom "shameful"?
Emily Badger: US record on internet freedom “shameful”?
Website blocking: gone but not forgotten?
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
China: Internet surveillance boosted
New regulations have been enforced in an area of central Beijing requiring bars, restaurants, hotels and bookstores to install web monitoring...
Kyrgyzstan: government bans news websites ahead of election campaign
Kyrgyzstan's Central Elections Committee (CEC) has decided to bar web-based news media from participating in the campaign ahead of the 30th October...
Belarus protesters rally on the web
Olga Birukova examines the online activism that is keeping pressure on Lukashenko
Defining the US role in promoting Internet freedom
Emily Badger: Defining the US role in promoting Internet freedom
Let’s take back the internet! Rebecca MacKinnon at TED
Emily Butselaar: Let’s take back the internet! Rebecca MacKinnon at TED
Australian internet providers employ censors
Australian service providers, including Telstra and Optus, will voluntarily block websites deemed by the government as showing and disseminating...
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...
