All the stories tagged with censorship
Apple Censors ‘Barely Legal Teen’ From iCloud Emails, Attachments
02/28/2013, Apple’s iCloud has seen better days as it’s still experiencing issues from its early-morning outage, and now we’re hearing reports of iCloud emails and attachments being censored. According to Macworld, Apple’s iCloud email service has been caught deleting emails that [...]
Google ordered to censor search terms in France
07/19/2012, Despite removing certain terms from its Autocomplete and Instant search features, it looks like Google still isn’t doing enough to please the authorities. According to reports online, the French Supreme Court has ruled that Google should censor the words “torrent”, [...]
Google and Facebook remove content in India
02/06/2012, Google and Facebook have complied with orders from the India government by removing pages that are deemed offensive to Indian political and religious leaders, which is in compliance with a court case which raised censorship fears in what is deemed [...]
Protect-IP law, the 5mn video overview [must watch]
11/17/2011, There’s a new Internet law called PROTECT-IP that is about to be voted in Congress, and you need to pay attention to it. PROTECT-IP stands for “Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of [...]
In China, you can’t say the word “protest” on the phone
03/23/2011, We all know that China has one of the most controlling governments in the world, especially when it comes to the media and censorship of free speech. Now, it looks like they are monitoring phone calls too. According to some [...]
China rejects accusations by Google
03/22/2011, In response to Google’s recent accusation of China blocking Gmail, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry stated that Google’s suggestion was “an unacceptable accusation.” For those not in the know, users in China have had problems accessing Gmail. Google looked [...]
Google says China is blocking Gmail
03/21/2011, If you live in China and have problems accessing Google’s services like Gmail, it isn’t a problem on Google’s side – it’s China. According to Google, they discovered no technical issues on their side after extensive checking out problems users [...]
Ford allows parents to censor teens’ car radio
12/29/2010, Being a parent is a heavy responsibility, and among those include leading and guiding your soon-to-be nest leaver in the right path of life. You not only have to make sure they mix with the right crowd, but also ensure [...]
3G Amazon Kindle Manages To Dodge China’s Great Firewall
11/01/2010, Amazon’s 3G Kindle seems to have a rather useful feature when used over in China. Reports are out that the eBook reader manages to dodge past China’s Internet censorship system, allowing users to access a wide range of content that [...]
Is Google Relaxing Its Censorship In China?
03/17/2010, Could Google be showing more defiance towards the Chinese Government? Reports seem to indicate that Google’s Chinese search engine is returning results for previously censored searches, such as issues related to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. Even searching for key [...]
