Posts Tagged ‘web censorship’

The US government’s proposed Stop Online Piracy Act, and its sister bill, the Protect IP Act, are due to be debated again in Congress this January having been initially, and controversially, submitted at the end of last year. For those …

There’s a report on Techcrunch today about the announcement that Yandex is set to be the default search engine on Windows phones in Russia as a result of a partnership between Microsoft, Yandex and three handset manufacturers: Samsung, HTC and …

Silvio Berlusconi must really admire the Chinese authorities and their approach to internet censorship – What a pity for him that certain legal restraints make creating a similar situation (of political control and repression of dissent) in Italy quite tricky. …

Well, I’m afraid the short answer is that it simply can’t. But let’s consider things in a little more detail…

The UK government’s communications minister, Ed Vaizey, announced yesterday that he believes ISP’s should be able to discriminate against certain …

Unsurprisingly the events of last week relating to Google’s decision to perform a u-turn on its China policy are causing quite the media ripple, to put it very mildly. For those of you who have had no contact with any …