Google is warning about new forms of censorship. Although many believe that Google is a sort of Big Brother, the American company today shows its interest in transparency on the web: it does give an alert about the growing number of requests from governments and justice to remove Internet content or to request information about
Read More...In November 2012, Russia passed a law allowing the government to establish a blacklist of given websites which could pose a danger to children mostly. The Russian government can thus decide to block access to certain websites to all of its citizens, from the moment it is considered that the site offers content that poses
Read More...In Moscow yesterday the courts issued an order that they will be limiting internet video access to any of the videos by the popular punk band, Pussy Riot. Two of the band members are already in jail, and the films are said to be far too extreme. There is a new restricted access rule been
Read More...The federal representatives of a mass inspection service in Russia banned Google and put the site as one of the many that supposedly contained prohibited information that was not permitted in the country to browsers of the web. There was also a site that was called blogspot.ru banned because it displayed a lot of info,
Read More...Le VPN, a provider of anonymous, unrestricted and secure access to the Internet, announced that it would be launching its products on the market in Russia on November 15th.This has been in response to a new Internet censorship law which was recently passed in Russia, which can prevent Internet access to web sites which the
Read More...Russia passes Internet censorship law targeting opposition bloggers, journalists and other activists. Yesterday on November 1st Russia passed a new controversial Internet bill for blacklisting websites that Russian government determines have content unauthorized on the territory of Russian Federation. This new Russian Internet censorship law includes first of all websites on child porn, suicide instructions
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