August 25, 2017

‘Clever’ TapDance approach to web censorship that works at ISP level

The TapDance approach is just a proof of concept at the moment, but observers have welcomed it as a potentially useful tool

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May 11, 2017

News in brief: laptop ban could be extended; DDoS hits news sites; Taiwan might block Google DNS

Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news

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January 25, 2017

China clamps down tighter on web use with new VPN ban

Restrictions will make it harder to reach providers like Facebook, Google and news providers such as the New York Times

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November 24, 2016

Facebook ‘quietly developing censorship tool’ for China

Tool would be offered to third parties to monitor stories that 'bubble up' as users share them

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April 20, 2016

Adblockers are “censorship” says ad-tech company

Recent research by ad-tech company Oriel has found that adblockers are doing more than simply blocking ads and have accused them of "interfering, changing and potentially censoring web content"

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January 05, 2016

Politwoops’ archive of deleted tweets will soon be back after Twitter reopens API

The erased Twitter gaffes by politicians, which the sites had resurfaced in the name of government transparency, will relaunch in the coming months.

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December 23, 2015

Welcome to HTTP error code 451: Unavailable for legal reasons

It's meant to let you know that you're not seeing what you want to see because a site's been blocked for legal reasons, be it censorship or otherwise.

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August 13, 2015

Man calls police ‘slackers’ on Facebook, falls foul of Spain’s new ‘gag law’

Eduardo Díaz got in trouble for a tirade on the mayor's Facebook page in which he called the local police a class of slackers.

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July 27, 2015

You’ll have to stop stealing jokes on Twitter now

Ripping off other people's stuff, even jokes, is no laughing matter!

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