Vietnam applies a new decree which shall sanction comments on social media that criticize the government with prison sentence or the equivalent of a $ 4,740 fine – which represents a non- negligible amount in this country. Writers of such comments that what can be considered as criminal offenses shall lead to a prison sentence.
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After the termination of Skype partnership with Tom Online, Microsoft may have removed all censorship filters for Chinese Internet users. Skype VoIP software has a special version for China, due to government censorship. Skype worked for several years via TOM Online, the Chinese provider. But in 2008, researchers had identified that written conversations via instant
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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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GreatFire, a group of activists and militants, decided to fight against the Chinese censorship by drilling a hole in the “Great Firewall” , the nickname of the digital divide which are stronger than the Great Wall of China. Filtering performed by the Chinese authorities is actually basic and brutal : the domain names of sites
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Le VPN is fast developing in the US. All Le VPN team is proud to announce that 7 American servers have been added, due to the high US demand. This implies an even fast and reliable Le VPN service. The new US states with Le VPN servers are the following: New York, Texas, Illinois, Georgia, Utah,
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The censorship of the incident that happened on October 29th in the famous Tiananmen Square demonstrates the continued commitment of China to eliminate any challenge. But how does China manages to control internet and social networks? … The vehicle that drove into the crowd on Monday 29th and was set into fire under Mao’s portrait
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Since last June, the media reported much about the American National Security Agency (NSA) worldwide monitoring program. More than a dozen countries have been affected by this oversight, to varying degrees. Imagine an absolute Internet monitoring system that sneaks into your privacy: your audio and video p2p activities, photos, e- mails, passwords are intercepted and
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For its 10th anniversary, The Pirate Bay, torrent most contested p2p site offered a new web browser meant to bypass censorship in some countries. The download PirateBrowser page refers to countries such as Iran, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Italy. The tool is based on Tor, Firefox Portable Edition and Foxy Proxy is used to
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On the Internet, the security of your data and passwords is a sensitive point. A journalist just revealed that Google would keep track of all your access codes to Wi-Fi networks used with any of its devices. This information will not improve the tense situation between Google and some users who criticize the fact that
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In California, a new law will enable teenagers to remove embarrassing photos or comments they have posted from their personal pages on social networks. California really wants to save the reputation of its e- teens with this called “the gum law” that has been enacted by the Governor of California and will come into force
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