censorship

A law signed by President Bush will compel the Federal Communications Commission to explore content-blocking technologies.

Early this decade, Microsoft weathered unrelenting criticism over a controversial set of technologies known as Palladium, which the company envisioned as creating a kind of secure vault to store passwords or medical records.

Academics warned it could "support remote censorship" and blacklists, likening Palladium to the Soviet Union's efforts ...

There’s a new kind of censorship online, and it’s coming from the grassroots. Thanks to new, collaborative, social media networks, it’s easier than ever for people to get together and destroy freedom of expression.

They’re going DIY from the bottom up — instead of the way old-school censors used to do it, from the top down.

Call it user-generated censorship.

Tudou, which had been scolded for insufficient censorship (namely, of porn) and faced either threats or rumors of a government shutdown as recently as last month, is looking a little healthier this week.

China Web 2.0 Review reports:

It has been rumored for quite a long time, Tudou, the

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The Pirate Bay, a popular BitTorrent tracking site, has launched a blogging service where bloggers won't have to fear censorship, according to TorrentFreak.

This blog is often faced with the question of whether to post methods to access various sites which are inaccessible from China because of government controls.

I want to turn the question to readers, who I hope will have some opinions. Help me decide whether to reinstate a workaround for ...

For the second year in a row, Google shareholders will be asked to hold the Web search giant accountable for protecting free speech, regardless of international borders.

One of the proposals to be submitted at the annual shareholder meeting scheduled for May 8, would require Google to create policies to ...