| Date | Title | Description |
| 26.08.2015 | As Part Of Its War On Encryption, Russia Briefly Blocks All Of Wikipedia Over One Weed Reference | Did you know you can occasionally find people discussing narcotics on the Internet? Russian Internet regulator Roskomnadzor (the Kremlin’s “Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom Information Technologies and Mass Communica... |
| 11.07.2015 | WikiLeaks Posts Over 1 Million Hacking Team Emails And It's A Can Of Worms For Governments | Nicole Arce, Tech Times 11 July 2015, 06:07 am
WikiLeaks has created a searchable database of more than 400 GB of private emails and source codes dumped on the Internet after unknown hackers breached into Hacking Team's systems and leaked t... |
| 26.06.2015 | Russia Blocks The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine Over A Single Page | Over the last few years, Russia has really been ramping up its efforts to censor the internet to hide content it doesn’t like. As is often the case when the government gets the power to censor, that censorship starts spreading farther and f... |
| 26.06.2015 | Reddit blocked in China, Wayback Machine blocked in Russia | It is becoming increasingly common for governments around the world to block access to websites they don’t approve of for one reason or another. The most frequent censor is China, and the latest site to fall victim to the Great Firewall of ... |
| 02.06.2015 | Putin Has Shifted His Internet Propaganda Army Into Overdrive | While propaganda is certainly not the exclusive territory of Putin’s Russia, it has become clear that Putin and friends — when not busy arranging accidents for administration critics — have taken internet propaganda specifically to an entir... |
| 28.04.2015 | Ukraine’s security service takes down 30,000 websites to fight “pro-Russian propaganda” | Ukraine’s State Security Service (SBU) was initially aiming to shut down five websites that had been allegedly spreading pro-Russian views about the conflict in Ukraine. Instead, they ended up crushing thousands of other websites, halting b... |
| 17.04.2015 | Details Leak From Inside Putin's 'Humourless And Draconian' Internet Troll Army | With fifteen years under my belt writing about astroturf, think tanks, fauxcademics, and other dirty lobbying and policy tricks, I’ve always had a hobbyist’s fascination with propaganda, especially online. When done “correctly,” disinformat... |
| 13.04.2015 | Latest Russian Censorship Move: Banning Internet Memes Using Photos Of Celebrities | For a while now, Techdirt has been tracking the continuing efforts of the Russian government to rein in the Internet, at the cost of squeezing much of the life out of it. As an article on Global Voices reports, this has now reached ridiculo... |
| 09.01.2015 | 369 Bloggers Have Registered Under Russia's New Blogger's Law | Last year, we wrote about Russia’s ridiculous new law that requires bloggers/social media users with more than 3,000 visitors per day to register with the government. Recently, we noted that Intel had shut down its Russian forums and blogs ... |
| 25.07.2014 | Russia Has Put a Bounty on Tor | Image: Shutterstock
The Russian government has issued a bounty of nearly 4 million rubles ($100,000) to be awarded to anyone who can deanonymise users of the Tor network, according to an apparent tender from the Interior Ministry uncovered ... |
| 16.06.2014 | Chile Bans Free Delivery Of Social Media Services To Uphold Net Neutrality | Net neutrality is a hot topic on both sides of the Atlantic, but it’s not only in those regions that governments are trying to formulate policies that will keep the Internet fair and open for innovation. One country at the forefront of this... |
| 28.05.2014 | Calls For Social Media To Be Censored In Spain After Politician's Assassination Is Mocked On Twitter | As Mike has noted, after starting out with some of the most reasonable copyright laws around, Spain came under some serious pressure from the US to replace them with ones that make the online environment there a far less innovative and plea... |
| 19.03.2014 | Brazil’s ‘Constitution Of The Internet’ Puts Net Neutrality In The Spotlight | Editor’s note: Julie Ruvolo is a freelance writer and editor of RedLightR.io and RioChromatic.com.
Brazil’s Congress is days away from voting on Marco Civil, the country’s first major Internet legislation, and the big issue at stake is net ... |
| 13.03.2014 | Russia Using Internet Censorship Laws To Block Websites Of Opposition Candidate, Independent Media | A few years ago, we noted that Russia was pushing new internet censorship laws, officially to “protect the children.” Of course, everyone knew that was a bogus reason, and the laws were used to silence reporters who were critical of the gov... |
| 12.02.2014 | Keen On… The Hippies: How The Counterculture Ruined The Internet | The Internet has been getting a lot of criticism lately. But there are few people better able to coherently explain what’s gone wrong than the Stanford University associate professor of communication, Fred Turner.
As the author of two impor... |
| 22.12.2013 | The Foreign Policy Essay: Elizabeth Dickinson on "Financing Extremism in Syria" | The civil war in Syria has confounded U.S. policymakers, who worry about the mounting humanitarian crisis, the collapse of the Syrian state, the prominent Iranian presence, and especially the growing role of jihadist terrorists in the confl... |
| 29.11.2013 | The Spanish Government Is Trying to Outlaw Peaceful Protests | On Wednesday, the Spanish government announced a draft proposal to introduce anti-protest measures that would make Russia’s handling of activists look magnanimous in comparison. If passed, the bill will penalize many accepted forms of peace... |
| 22.11.2013 | The Spanish Government Is Trying to Outlaw Peaceful Protest | Photos by Felipe Hernandez and Gatnau Fornell Ramon
On Wednesday, the Spanish government announced a draft proposal to introduce anti-protest measures that would make Russia’s handling of activists look magnanimous in comparison. If passed,... |
| 17.09.2013 | China's New Censorship Plan: Three Years In Prison If You Get 500 Retweets Of A 'Harmful' Post | As we’ve noted before, the online community is kept on a pretty tight leash in China, with information deemed subversive or just embarrassing disappearing quickly from the networks. But it seems that’s not enough. Global Voices is reporting... |
| 18.08.2013 | How to break out of your own little corner of the Internet: Rewire, reviewed | Ethan Zuckerman's first book was released in June 2013.
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| 30.05.2013 | Taiwan's Copyright Proposals Would Combine SOPA With A Dash Of The Great Firewall Of China | You might have hoped that the extensive discussions that took place around SOPA a year or so ago would have warned off governments elsewhere from replicating some of the really bad ideas there, like DNS blocking, but it seems that Taiwan di... |
| 15.05.2013 | Critic Of Chinese Censorship Censored: Microblog With 1.1 Million Followers Deleted | It will hardly come as a surprise to anyone to learn that a popular writer and well-known critic of China’s pervasive censorship system has run into trouble for his views. Fortunately, in this case that doesn’t mean getting arrested, but no... |
| 27.03.2013 | Brazil's New Political Party: Green With A Shade Of Pirate | Techdirt has been following the rapid rise and current problems of the various Pirate Parties in Europe for some time. Both their success and difficulties flow in part from the fact that they do not fit neatly into the traditional political... |
| 19.02.2013 | Bhutan's Government: Gross National Happiness, Yes; Sense Of Humor, Not So Much | Aside from its spectacular location up in the Himalayas, the Kingdom of Bhutan is probably best known for eschewing measurements of Gross Domestic Product in favor of Gross National Happiness: |
| 15.12.2012 | Ross Pruden's Favorites Of The Week: Hand Me The Keys (Or I'll Take Them) | This week, Techdirt had a good crop of articles about enablers and gatekeepers. First up is the amazing story of 72 year old music legend Lester Chambers and how his newest chapter is currently being written on Kickstarter. As you may recal... |
| 01.12.2012 | Security Is Hard, But That Doesn’t Mean You Should Ignore It | Six weeks ago I was out drinking in a Kipling-themed bar in Rangoon, Myanmar — as you do — and happened to find myself next to a table of high-powered international telecommunications consultants, overhearing juicy lines like “Skype and Vib... |
| 05.11.2012 | Slovak Collection Society Tells High School Students To Pay Up For Music At Graduation Parties | We recently covered a new report highlighting the parade of horror stories from “copyright collection organizations” or “collective rights organizations” around the globe. We’ve got one to add to the list. The Slovak Performing and Mechanic... |
| 25.09.2012 | Cambodia Wants Mandatory Surveillance Cameras In Internet Cafes | Large-scale surveillance of private communications is becoming depressingly routine, even in supposedly enlightened democracies. In less freedom-loving locations, Internet cafes are viewed with particular suspicion, and subject to tight con... |
| 29.01.2012 | Twitter’s Censorship Policy: Three Unanswered Questions | In June of 2009, leading up to the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square uprising, the Chinese government blocked access by its citizens to Twitter, Flickr and a number of other US-based websites. Social media being already widespread th... |
| 23.01.2012 | Polish Government's Plan To Sign ACTA Gets The SOPA Treatment | We received an amusing email over the weekend chiding us for never having covered ACTA — the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Of course, we’ve actually written 247 articles that mention ACTA (yes, I just counted). It seems that among so... |
| 27.12.2011 | Cartel Radio: Drugs and Kidnappings and Blood on the Air | If 2011 was a year for Internet-driven global protest, it was also a time of sado-crafty Mexican crime syndicates fully wiring up and operating on their own increasingly sophisticated private networks.
Drug cartels have been overhauling and... |
| 09.11.2011 | Russian Internet Content Monitoring System To Go Live In December | Back in April of this year, the Russian government put out a tender: |
| 22.09.2011 | Timeline: This Week in Online Tyranny | Because several weeks have passed without a TWiOT update, I am making this one a straight-ahead digest, listing the latest piece of news first. Egyptian blogger receives International Press Freedom Award. The Canadian Journalists for Free E... |
| 18.08.2011 | Syrians Campaign for Detained Geek: This Week in Online Tyranny | Campaign for imprisoned Syrian blogger. Anyone who still believes that imprisonment and torture of social media users is limited to political radicals and gadfly journalists need look no further than Syria’s Anas Maarawi to be disabused of ... |
| 25.05.2011 | These TV Ads for the Azerbaijani Bank that Helps Fund the World's Spam Look A Lot Like Spam | If your bank is one of the few in the world that would process the transactions of the email spam underworld, you might not want to draw attention to yourself with advertisements that look like the brainchildren of Donald Trump and Uday Hus... |
| 07.04.2011 | Bahrain Arrests Poet, China Arrests Artist: This Week in Online Tyranny | Poet arrested by Bahrain security. After reciting a satirical poem during the Bahraini protests, Ayat Al-Qormezi was arrested. Her parents were tortured by gunmen, who told them their four sons, who had been forced face-down onto the floor,... |
| 04.03.2011 | Zambia Turns to Facebook for Policy Communication | Dora Siliya, the Minister of Education for the African country of Zambia, and the spokesperson for the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy, has turned to her Facebook page to make national policy announcements.
This isn’t the first tim... |
| 24.12.2010 | Google Hires Kenyan Activist to Shape Africa Policy | Kenyan Blogger Ory Okolloh has been hired by Google to oversee that company’s policy in Africa.
Most people outside the continent imagine Africa as being the size of a France or two. (In reality it’s the size of the U.S., China, Japan and m... |
| 25.11.2010 | U.N. Takes Stand Against Freedom of Speech, Religion: This Week in Online Tyranny | In a move that will give states and other parties who are offended by free speech precedent to further restrict it, the United Nations has again passed the resolution forbidding “defamation of religion.”
This is its third time through the B... |
| 12.08.2010 | Net Neutrality: This Week in Online Tyranny | Google and Verizon announced a proposal for internet network transparency. It included FCC enforcement with fines of up to $2 for network providers that engage in anti-competitive measures. Verizon’s CEO Ivan Seidenberg said this was not a ... |
| 01.07.2010 | Omidyar Network Hands $2.3M In Grants To Global Voices, mySociety and The XYZ Show | eBay founder Pierre Omidyar’s philanthropic investment firm, Omidyar Network, has announced three new grants today, all to non-profits that are helping to add transparency and accountability to government institutions.
In total, the Omidyar... |
| 10.06.2009 | GeeksOnAPlane Meet Tokyo 2.0, Learn About The Relation Between The Web & Language | The GeeksOnAPlane Asia tour kicked off on Monday in Tokyo, with the group of mostly US-based geeks leaving today for Beijing. Former TechCrunch employee Mark Hendrickson already shared his views on the Japanese tech scene from an American p... |
| 16.02.2009 | 5 Online Political Resources Everyone Should Know About | It’s Presidents Day here in the United States but for most people it’s just a day off work. Cynics, fair-weather political watchers, “Joe Six Packs” (did you want to avoid hearing that phrase again?) – we present to you below some of our fa... |
| 21.09.2008 | Developing your technology in Latin America | Near-shoring software engineering in Latin America is a side effect of progressive state policies
"Near-shoring" is a term which simply means off-shoring to locations that are geographically closer than traditional technology off-... |
| 14.08.2008 | Twitter joins the Olympics, as a Chinese journalist cries out for help | There seems to be some grassroots support for the idea of an emergency broadcast system on the micro-messaging service Twitter, at least from people who have emergencies to broadcast. The latest cry for help: A Chinese journalist nabbed by ... |
| 25.02.2008 | Facebook Poser Gets Three Year Sentence | On February 7 we reported that a Moroccan man named Fouad Mourtada had been arrested for pretending to be the Moroccan king’s younger brother, Prince Moulay Rachid, on Facebook. The specific charge was “Villainous practices.”
Well, justice ... |
| 30.06.2006 | Newsgator posts roadmap for the future of RSS | Newsgator and Feedburner are the two most active companies in the RSS space right now. When either of these companies say anything, I pay close attention. Yesterday Newsgator founder and CTO Greg Reinacker (listen to an interview with Greg ... |
