Last week, China suffered a major Internet outage for several hours. Experts question whether it could be due to some hacking or technical problem in the censorship system. On January 21st, more than two-third of Chinese websites were inaccessible and therefore millions of users have been deprived of internet for about 8 hours, according on
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Reporters Without Borders is much concerned about an Internet bill that is to be debated by the Turkish parliament soon. Registered by a ruling AKP member mid-December as proposed amendments to Law 5651 on the Internet, it implies websites to be blocked without any court order and strong surveillance of Internet users. “Law 5651 need
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On January 8th, Greatfire.org website announced that the British newspaper The Guardian website was inaccessible in China since January 6th. Access to the British newspaper, The Guardian website is blocked in China for unknown reasons, according to the newspaper. “We are concerned that theguardian.com has been blocked in China. The reasons for this are still
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After Denmark, Italy, England, Finland … Ireland has also asked Internet providers in the country to block access to The Pirate Bay, a Peer to Peer site. The Independent has revealed that justice had ordered to six providers to suspend access to the P to P site within thirty days. Every month, around 200,000 Irish
Read More...On June 4th 1989, Beijing’s infamous student demonstration that took place in Tian’anmen Square was violently stopped by the Chinese authorities. 24 years later, its commemoration is still highly censored in China but bypassed by the Chinese people in a humorous way. The famous photo “a man in Tian’amnen” Jeff Widener, representing one man facing
Read More...There are four major families of blocked sites (blacklist) in Belgium: those who sell drugs (real or faked ones), the illegal download sites, such as Megaupload, sites selling counterfeit goods and unauthorized gambling sites that represent the majority of them. 60 online gambling sites have been blacklisted since the existence of this list since 2009.
Read More...Most major national television channels such as the BBC, RAI, etc… have their programs available on the Internet worldwide. The French TV channels are an exception, since a law was passed in the 90s. In France, a country that aims at advocating for human rights, all French TV channels operate a daily censorship of their
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You may be traveling often and be willing to regularly connect to the Internet freely to book your next hotel, communicate with your loved ones or post pictures on Facebook? If you travel in China, Vietnam, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, and other countries, you will encounter cyber censorship. There are different types of censorship, but in
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After the Prism revelations, personal data security has become a global issue. How to regulate the Internet freedom against the Internet giants and the governments is now a global concern. Will 2014 mean the end of Internet freedom? Today, personal data are accessible to everyone, through our posts on Facebook, our online shopping on Amazon
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