Tag: censorship
Indonesian censorship news: YouTube allowed again!
Previously we have reported on Indonesia banning porn and YouTube. We are the UK’s premier source of news regarding Indonesian ISP policies. It it’s happening in Indonesia, you’ll find it first here first!
So it’s pleasing to report that Indonesia has today un-banned YouTube, with the country’s ISPs allowing access to the video-sharing site again – but still blocking any individual pages containing the offensive and supposedly anti-Islamic film that sparked the…
China allows access to Wikipedia – but nothing dodgy about Tibet allowed
Chinese authorities seem to be gradually lessening their censorship rules to keep the IOC happy, with Wikipedia popping up for those stuck on the other side of the ‘Firewall of China’.
Select English-language pages now appear for vandalism, although try looking up ‘Tiananmen Square’ or ‘Tibet’ and you’ll still be greeted with an error message. Also, the Chinese-language pages are still blocked, so it’s either a temporary glitch in the awesome-sounding Golden Shield Project, or we’re seeing China start to appease foreign visitors…
AT&T is getting all 1984 on yo' asses, so if you criticise them, you're out
Want another reason to dislike those sharks at AT&T? As if the awful mobile reception and huge phone bills weren’t bad enough, stories have surfaced in the past few days about their controversial Terms of Service, which allow the US company to terminate a customer’s service if acts of a defamatory or damaging manner are made against their reputation.
If caught criticising them on blogs, for instance, they reserve the right to terminate your connection completely. A spokesperson for the company however denied they would stoop to censorship…
Burmese authorities block the bloggers, pics and videos of attrocities go online
If there was ever a story to prove that blogging is not always about the mundane, fickle things, it's that of those in Burma who have been trying to get words and pictures out about the atrocities in their country….
AT&T responds to Pearl Jam censorship charges: "Not me guv"
You might remember our story yesterday about Pearl Jam complaining that their anti George Bush comments were censored from a webcast of last weekend’s Lollapalooza festival in the US. Well, AT&T, who hosted the webcast, has now denied direct responsibility.
Pearl Jam blast Lollapalooza webcast "censorship"
There’s a row rumbling over in the US, where Pearl Jam recently headlined the Lollapalooza festival, which was webcast by telco AT&T on its Blue Room site. The band are claiming their performance was censored – specifically the bits where they changed their lyrics to snipe at George Bush.
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Vodafone team up for human rights initiative
Following criticism over censorship and other human rights restrictions in China and other countries, four of the biggest tech companies have sat down with human rights groups and internet freedom activists to hammer out a set of principles on how…
New tool aims to bypass web censorship
A new web tool developed by the University of Toronto claims to be able to bypass a country's censorship of certain web sites by acting as a proxy between people in a censored country and a computer in an uncensored…
Chinese Wikipedia unblocked, becomes second fastest growing version
China's version of Wikipedia, the online user-edited encyclopaedia resource, has been unblocked by a number of Chinese Internet access providers after more than a year. The international press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders carried out tests to prove that access…
