Yahoo China which was operated by Alibaba Group, a Chinese e-commerce and Internet services, has just closed its Web portal. The good-bye message displayed on the website redirects indeed visitors to now.taobao.com and explains that the decision to shut down Yahoo China’s portal complies with the 2012 agreement made between Alibaba Group and Yahoo!. The closing
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In New Zealand, the Prime Minister just managed to pass a new law that legalizes the communications of its citizens to be monitored. At a time where PRISM and the various U.S. Internet monitoring programs keep on raising much controversy, the New Zealand government just adopted a law allowing its intelligence service called Government Communications
Read More...In Australia, there is a feeling of mixed emotion about the Internet Blocks this week as the government have decided to abandon plans that have been on-going for the past five years to block and filter any pornography relating to children on the web. Other similar content was supposed to have been blocked too, but they
Read More...There is no consensus yet in Dubai. The ITU conference is being held under the United Nations flag in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) until Friday, December 14th. Non-governmental organizations are becoming more and more active, as several authoritarian regimes such as Russia and the UAE are trying to impose their views on having a
Read More...The World Conference on International Telecommunications will be running from Monday, December 14th for twelve days in the United Arab Emirates city of Dubai and is expected to be controversial in nature in that it could lead to censorship of the Internet and block access to it in certain countries. The Conference, known as the
Read More...If the United Nations World Conference regarding the way that International Telecommunications is delivered is a successful meeting, it will make the Internet shutdown that was experienced in Syria a legally supported action for every country around the globe. Now that Syria has regained internet access, technical experts have gone into further conversations about the
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...Estonia allows its citizens the greatest measure of freedom of online expression, according to the Freedom House, a Washington-based advocacy group. They have recently published a “Freedom on the Net 2012″report that puts this tiny Baltic country on the top of the list of countries with free internet. Freedom House’s rankings are based on factors
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Censorship circumvention techniques are able to challenge and counteract Internet censorship of dissident content. It came at a time when censoring online content critical of governments had reached high levels, particularly in regions witnessing unprecedented growth rates in Internet use such as China, Iran and Arab countries. But there are lots of ways to counteract
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