This is a guest post by Peter Noorlander The European Court of Human Rights today handed down its judgment in the case of Times Newspapers Ltd (Nos....
Libel: Strasbourg ruling a setback for web publishing
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CATEGORY: Digital Freedom
Groups appeal for web freedom
Human rights groups are urging Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft not to become complicit in Internet censorship, declaring 12 March World Day Against...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
Malaysia: would watchdog free web?
The establishment of an independent press council may help protect journalists and Internet activists like Raja Petra Kamaruddin, writes Daniel...
Ingushetian opposition website owner killed
Magomed Yevloyev, owner of opposition Ingushetiya.ru webpage, was killed in Ingushetia yesterday soon after the police detained him in Margas...
Internet protocol
New laws on digital media in Thailand may strengthen the nation’s lese-majesty laws, writes David Jardine Swingeing new controls on the use of the...