Posts Tagged censorship

Protect Your Privacy Rights

When the Internet helped foster nationwide protests in Iran, EFF published a new international edition of our Surveillance Self-Defense guide, explaining how dissidents could avoid government eavesdropping and censorship.

Google’s new Book Search service will track everything you read, creating a dossier that’s ripe for abusive government demands. EFF rallied authors, publishers, and users together to [...]

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Australia’s Bizarre Classification System For Internet Censorship

stavros-59 writes “Australia’s internet censorship watchdog, ACMA, uses an internet classification system originally intended for children’s PC filters. ACMA has now made what must be the most amazing recent decisions of the whole bizarre censorship debate. The Register today has a story about ACMA’s decision to force Apple to withdraw their ITMS gift feature from [...]

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Chinese Schools Ax Green Dam Censorship Software

eldavojohn writes “China’s controversial Green Dam Internet Filter died on new PCs a month ago but it wasn’t until recently that Chinese schools silently removed it. Claims that the software inhibited work in schools was cited as the reason by Reuters. “We will remove all Green Dam software from computers in the school as it [...]

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AT&T censors Pearl Jam

UPDATE: AT&T have responded “Officially, AT&T claims that the act of censorship was the result of a simple mistake made by the content monitor”
“The editing of the Pearl Jam performance on Sunday night was not intended, but rather a mistake by a webcast vendor and contrary to our policy. We have policies in place with [...]

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