Governments are getting nosier than ever, at least if you ask Google. The search firm has already noticed rapidly mounting censorship in recent months, but its latest half-year Transparency Report has revealed a 26 percent surge in takedown reques…
The exact identity of the attackers behind last week’s record-breaking DDoS attack on European anti-spam organization Spamhaus remains unclear, but one name that keeps cropping up is that of Dutchman Sven Olaf Kamphuis. In an intervie…
Few legal notices are as publicly maligned — or misused — as the DMCA takedown request. For every legitimate request to remove a pirated file or page, it sometimes feels like there’s another inadvertent trampling of fair u…
For many of us, Google Reader fading into oblivion means we’ll need to hunt down another source for our daily news fix. For others, though, the loss is far more significant. As Quartz is today pointing out, Reader has become a critica…
The Chinese government has apparently lifted its longtime ban on IMDb, making the encyclopedic movie website available to users in both Chinese- and English-language versions. As the AFP reports, the restrictions were unexpectedly lif…
Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter-like microblogging platform, has seen tremendous growth since launching in 2010, with the site’s 300 million users combining to post 70,000 messages per minute. This growth has forced the Chinese government…
Zhu Ruifeng is a former migrant worker with a high school education, but in the past two months, he’s become one of China’s most high profile journalists. As the New York Times reports, Zhu became a national celebrity last yea…
Zhu Ruifeng is a former migrant worker with a high school education, but in the past two months, he’s become one of China’s most high profile journalists. As the New York Times reports, Zhu became a national celebrity last yea…
After brief stints in the Play Store, it appears a few apps that can be described as nothing short of racist have finally been taken down directly by Google. “Make Me Asian” and “Make Me Indian” crept their way into Google Play back in November and allowed users to take pictures of themselves and give [...]
The United Nations’ push to apply old telecom regulations to the Internet has been pretty unpopular with several Internet freedom advocates, including Internet co-creator Vint Cerf. And now BBC News reports that at least three nations — the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada — have said they will not sign any treaty that would give “all states to have equal rights to the governance of the Internet.” Cerf and other critics of the U.N.’s efforts have contended that they could potentially add several damaging regulations to the Internet, as several authoritarian governments are likely to propose highly restrictive rules that would be damaging to freedom of speech and expression.
