Tag: CENSORSHIP

Users of Facebook in the United Arab Emirates have been left wondering if their access to the site will continue after major telco Etisalat appeared to have blocked the site today. Many Web sites are actively blocked in the Persian Gulf country which is home to a large expatriate community from India, the US, Europe and other countries in the Middle East. The Muslim nation blocks many sites on ...

You've probably heard about internet censorship in those "other" parts of the world. Political, social, or tool (the blocking of specific types of packets) blocking is more common than you'd think. OpenNet Initiative, a group funded in part by the MacArthur Foundation, has given us a visual tool that shows us exactly how blocked the citizens of some countries really are. The interactive map ...

Google rides a fine line when it comes to censorship. They've given in on a few points -- tried searching Tiananmen from China lately? -- and held fast on a few as well -- No justice department, we won't roll over on our users search data just cause you said so -- but it looks as if Google's shareholders want to get tough on censorship, for real. A proposal tabled for Google's next shareholder ...

It looks like Google is working with Thai officials to bring YouTube back to Thailand. Government officials had blocked access to YouTube earlier after users had posted a video mocking the country's king. The video in question showed an picture of King Bhumibol Adulyadej superimposed with images, including a pair of women's feet. The users removed the video after the government ban was put in ...

Psiphon is a new open source project from the University of Toronto that aims to give people unfettered access to censored web sites, particularly those blocked by oppressive governments. Basically it works by allowing people with uncensored internet access to act as proxies for those without. Unlike with Tor, the "psiphonite" (i.e. the person in the censored country--memo to U of T: this awful ...