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Greece Orders Blocking Of Music Piracy Sites

BY Kit Eaton | 05-21-2012 | 11:33 AM | INNOVATION

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Twitter Blocked Then Restored By Pakistan's Censors On Blasphemy Grounds

BY Kit Eaton | 05-21-2012 | 4:22 AM | INNOVATION

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Iran Begins To Lock Out The World From Its Intranet, Beginning With Email

BY Kit Eaton | 05-14-2012 | 3:57 AM | INNOVATION

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Anonymous Hits U.K. ISP For Pirate Bay Censorship

BY Kit Eaton | 05-09-2012 | 6:37 AM | INNOVATION

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After The U.K. Censors It, Pirate Bay Site Sees Traffic Boom

BY Kit Eaton | 05-03-2012 | 5:50 AM | INNOVATION

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Pakistan Torches National Firewall Plans

BY Neal Ungerleider | 03-20-2012 | 6:05 AM | INNOVATION

The most ambitious net censorship project since China's Great Firewall is no more: Pakistan's Ministry of Information Technology has indicated that they are canceling plans for a 50 million+ URL net filtering regime.READ MORE›

Iran's "Second Internet" Rivals Censorship Of China's "Great Firewall"

BY Neal Ungerleider | 02-23-2012 | 4:50 PM | INNOVATION

Iran is unveiling a nationwide "Halal Intranet" this spring that will try to seal the nation off from the corrupting influences of Google, Facebook, and Twitter. But can it work?READ MORE›

The Future Of The Internet's Here. And It's Creepy

BY Neal Ungerleider | 12-21-2011 | 12:55 PM | ETHONOMICS

Two new studies are offering a sneak peak into the future of the Internet: 24/7 digital surveillance of citizens is about to become affordable for repressive regimes worldwide. Do NOT text a friend about this. READ MORE›

Occupy Wall Street: Tahrir Over Here?

BY Neal Ungerleider | 09-21-2011 | 2:14 PM | ETHONOMICS

Yahoo blocked emails related to the ongoing protests on Wall Street. Meanwhile, attendees have been dealing with another problem: American protest rallies rely on mass media, not social media.READ MORE›

BART Toed A Blurry Legal Line In Blocking Cell Service To Thwart A Demonstration

BY Neal Ungerleider | 08-18-2011 | 3:22 PM | INNOVATION

Last week, BART blocked mobile phone services for several hours to disperse a demonstration they claimed was going to turn violent. Was it legal? The FCC is now asking. And free speech experts say it's uncharted territory that must be explored as mobile and digital communications technologies emerge.READ MORE›

Google Buys Motorola Mobility For $12.5 Billion

BY Kit Eaton | 08-15-2011 | 5:57 AM | INNOVATION

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Muslim-Majority Nations Stifling Online Expression: Report

BY Neal Ungerleider | 08-11-2011 | 11:22 AM | TECHNOLOGY

A new OpenNet Initiative study has found that Internet censorship is prevalent in Muslim-majority countries... and that the authorities are using religious sensibilities as an excuse for political repression online.READ MORE›

Photo Anonymizer App Helps Protect Dissidents, Hide Your Epic Bro-Downs

BY Neal Ungerleider | 06-29-2011 | 10:19 AM | DESIGN

A new app for Android phones blurs faces, strips metadata, integrates easily into Facebook, and is open source. It's great news for activists and protesters--and also for keg-standing partiers who want to make their photo albums safe for work.READ MORE›

Foursquare's $600M Valuation, Give The Onion A Pulitzer Or Glenn Beck Might Cry, Google Instantly Responds To FTC

BY Fast Company Staff | 06-24-2011 | 5:55 AM | INNOVATION

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iFive: Turkey Attacks Anonymous, Apple Settles With Nokia, LulzSec Hacks Senate, Unlocked iPhones On Sale, Facebook Upsets Trial

BY Kit Eaton | 06-14-2011 | 4:28 AM | INNOVATION

Tuesday is named from the Old English for "day of Mars," and in the Spanish and Greek worlds it's considered an unlucky day. Interesting, no? For still more interesting stuff, here's today's early news:READ MORE›

Unpacking The Secret $2 Million Internet In A Suitcase

BY Kit Eaton | 06-13-2011 | 7:45 AM | INNOVATION

The U.S. government's newest tool for global information sharing could have big implications in Libya, Egypt, Syria, and beyond. So how exactly does this technology work?READ MORE›

Turkey To Filter Words Like "Blonde," White House Cybersecurity Plan, Tweets "Vital" To Japanese Health, And More...

BY Gregory Ferenstein | 05-16-2011 | 12:33 PM | INNOVATION

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China Gets Copyright Right, Punishes Baidu For Pirate Music Links

BY Kit Eaton | 04-25-2011 | 7:04 AM | INNOVATION

China may be wising up to international condemnation of its lax copyright protection standards, as the Ministry of Culture has revealed it will "punish" local search giant Baidu for facilitating illegal music downloads.READ MORE›

Behind The Mystery Of Spam Tweets Clogging Syrian Protesters' Streams

BY Neal Ungerleider | 04-20-2011 | 1:46 PM | INNOVATION

Syrian democracy activists on Twitter have found themselves threatened and spammed by mystery accounts. Now one prominent opposition figure claims the Syrian government may be involved.READ MORE›

Ugandan Government To Order Blocking of Facebook, Twitter To Quash Protests

BY Kit Eaton | 04-19-2011 | 10:40 AM | INNOVATION

The Ugandan government, facing social unrest over high food and fuel prices, will order its ISPs to block Twitter and Facebook. It's the latest move in controlling social media to control a popular social movement. But it's a curiously manual type of disconnection.READ MORE›