Max Kelly, chief security officer at Facebook, told technology website CNET News that denial-of-service internet attacks which disrupted Twitter, Facebook and Live Journal services yesterday were targeted specifically at a Georgian blogger known as...
German government plans to ban violent videogames will have to be put on hold, after a successful internet petition by German gamers. The e-petition, hosted on the official forums of the Bundestag, the German parliament, has passed the 50,000...
A group of British academics including the historian Orlando Figes and the poet and translator Robert Chandler have spoken out after authorities in Russia closed down a website dealing with the country's controversial Soviet past. Read more here
China has confirmed it will continue with plans to force every computer in the country to run controversial filtering program Green Dam. The move follows news that Google have agreed to filter search results in China to screen out pornographic or...
An official complaint was lodged by US representatives with the Chinese government over plans to introduce mandatory Green Dam web censorship software. Read more here
A Catholic teacher has been fired in Vietnam for allegedly encouraging her students to access "politically sensitive web-sites". Read more here
The online version of one of China's most radical magazines, Yanhuang Chunqiu (China Through the Ages) has been closed by the censors who patrol the Great Firewall of China, days before the twentieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown....
The Ministry of Defence has banned UK troops in Iraq and Afghanistan from looking at The Sun's page3.com website deeming it inappropriate for soldiers. Read more here
The Australian National Classification Board’s website was hacked into just before Senator Stephen Conroy went onto television to defended the government’s internet filtering scheme on 29 March. In the broadcast, Conroy claimed the website was...
Writer and journalist Abou Abbass Ould Brahim, the editor of the news website Taqadoumy, was released today after being held for three days in the Mauritanian capital. The website was allowed to reopen 24 hours after the Nouakchott prosecutor's...