Neowin News Feed for: Censorship

FBI: Monitoring Skype and Gmail are "top priority" in 2013

Max Slater-Robins — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:08:43 +0000

FBI general counsel, Andrew Weissmann, has said that real time surveillance on Gmail and Skype is a "top priority" in 2013... but the FBI cannot sift through information in real time. Yet. Read more...

Apple filtering certain words from iCloud emails

Max Slater-Robins — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 23:13:22 +0000

iCloud, the successor to MobileMe, has been found to censor emails which include the words "barely legal teen", a move which has raised questions about the reliability to Apple's email service. Read more...

Google: Government surveillance inquiries 'spiking'

Tyler Holman — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:31:13 +0000

Google's twice-yearly Transparency Report is out, and this time there isn't much good news to go around: worldwide, government inquiries and takedown requests are spiking at unprecedented levels. Read more...

Editorial: Let's bring the UN's internet regulation talks into the open

Tyler Holman — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:21:49 +0000

In less than a month, behind closed doors, the UN is going to hold discussions that could have huge ramifications for internet users everywhere. Let's get them to come clean and bring it into the open Read more...

Egypt's state prosecutor orders ban on Internet pornography

Vlad Dudau — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 16:04:59 +0000

Egypt's state prosecutor has ordered a ban on internet pornography after a similar order was ignored by authorities. The ban would take away what some would argue is the raison d'etre of the web. Read more...

Iran removes block on Gmail again after a week

Paul Ferson — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:04:05 +0100

The Iranian government has removed the block on Gmail again after only a week, with ministers in parliament showing their dissent against the sudden loss of one of the most popular email services. Read more...

Iranian Parliament up in arms over Gmail ban

Tyler Holman — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 02:45:03 +0100

Iran may have just gone too far in its attempt to control the internet by blocking Gmail. People are turning to proxies, and even the Parliament is up in arms, as Iran promises an official replacement Read more...

Is Iran finally about to block outside Internet access?

John Callaham — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 22:34:34 +0100

A new report claims that Iran is getting ready to finally launch their rumored national Internet and block off official access to outside sites. Google and Gmail services are already being "filtered." Read more...

Google blacklists The Pirate Bay's domains

Nathan Tsui — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 05:41:50 +0100

Google has added The Pirate Bay's domains to its blacklist, censoring the BitTorrent website from appearing in autocomplete suggestions - but TPB say they've seen no major drop in traffic so far. Read more...

South Korea censors internet, hides opposition to government

Paul Ferson — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:39:48 +0100

South Korea has been found to be controlling its internet more than you might realise, ensuring you don't say anything that could be inflammatory towards the government. Read more...

Censoring the Pirate Bay is pointless, people bypass it easily

Paul Ferson — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:07:25 +0100

After The Pirate Bay was blocked in an attempt to curb illegal downloading, it has been found that the exercise was ineffective. Even information shared by ISPs seem to correspond with this. Read more...

Wikipedia goes down in Russia in protest at new law

Paul Ferson — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:13:11 +0100

Due to a controversial law being considered by Russia's State Parliament which could allow the blacklisting of websites, Wikipedia has closed itself for a one-day protest again. Read more...

Opera's Turbo feature circumvents site bans

Paul Ferson — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:20:54 +0100

Opera's Turbo feature allows the browser to be used to bypass restrictions and bans online, thereby allowing certain groups to access sites which were previously thought to have been blocked. Read more...

WikiLeaks begins to leak Syrian emails

Paul Ferson — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:09:41 +0100

WikiLeaks has begun to release emails form inside Syria's government ministries, with over two million emails waiting to go live across the world. The emails could shed new light on the uprising. Read more...

YouTube's existence threatened in Japan

Paul Ferson — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:17:19 +0100

In the wake of the capture of one of the terrorists responsible for the Tokyo sarin gas attacks of 1995, Japan's government has quietly amended one of their laws which could theoretically ban YouTube. Read more...

Google: Increase in government censorship requests is "troubling"

John Callaham — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:28:23 +0100

Google has announced that it has noticed a trend where more governments are asking the company to remove political content from its search results, which Google calls "troubling". Read more...

New HTTP status code to reveal web censorship

Alfonso Maruccia — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 02:19:12 +0100

XML co-creator is proposing a new HTTP “status code” to show when and why a website is being blocked. Implementing the code will not be mandatory, the draft says. Read more...

Hundreds of potential new IP addresses for The Pirate Bay

Alfonso Maruccia — Tue, 29 May 2012 23:48:07 +0100

The most-resilient P2P search engine threatens the content industry: you will not block us, we will just make use of hundreds of IP addresses to let users access our service. Read more...

New Zealand provider shut down anti-censorship service

Alfonso Maruccia — Mon, 14 May 2012 01:43:47 +0100

New Zealand ISP FYX has ended its censorship-free 'global mode' soon after launch, citing "matters that require consideration" before the content industry decide to sue the provider out of existence. Read more...

Dutch court orders more ISP's to block The Pirate Bay

Steven Parker — Thu, 10 May 2012 11:35:50 +0100

A court in The Hague has ruled that a further five Internet Service Providers in The Netherlands must block The Pirate Bay within ten days, or face fines of €10,000 a day. Read more...