While being in a deep political crisis, the Venezuelan government has begun to implement a stronger cybercensorship, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. This censorship would apply particularly in areas where the fights between the rebel students and the police are more violent. In a country where the media are controlled by the authorities ,
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Turkish users keep on talking about the Internet censorship. But the most controversial part of the new law about the Internet, which allows specific sites to be blocked without justice’s approval, may be amended. Turkish President Abdullah Gül almost immediately lost 80,000 followers on his Twitter account in protest of the green light he gave
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China is a difficult market for Google: the Web giant has been fighting for many years with the government over Internet censorship and freedom. Google search engine based in Hong Kong will completely remove warnings sent to users. Until now, even though the web giant was not able to circumvent censorship that restricts access to
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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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The Turkish government has introduced in Parliament a bill that requires a very strict control on the internet. This requires the authorization of internet used activities’ surveillance or blocking specific keywords. This text should allow the government authority in charge of telecommunications to restrict access to video sharing sites, but also to retain for two
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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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In the Kerman province located in the southeast part of Iran, the Revolutionary Guards have again blocked some new websites. The official news agency ISNA said: “In a technical large-scale operation of intelligence services (IRGC) in the Kerman province, nine Internet websites which were against to the regime of the Islamic Republic have been blocked.”
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The French court has ordered Internet Service Providers (ISPs ) to block streaming sites and search engines to stop their SEO, which is a world first. On November 28th, the Paris court ordered streaming websites offering the distribution of to be blocked by French ISP. This decree also requires specific search engines to stop websites
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Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO, recently commented about his conviction before the U.S. Johns Hopkins University that Internet censorship should end within a decade. Google boss also said that a better encryption use shall allow users to fight against governments’ oversight. Eric Schmidt clearly targets dictatorial regimes or those practicing a strict control of the Internet
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