2010 May

May, 2010

Monthly archive · 9 posts

Stories from May, 2010

31 May 2010

Internet Freedom under pressure in Denmark

On 27 May the Danish Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision which obliges internet service providers (ISPs) to block access to websites that may contain - or link to...

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30 May 2010

Bangladesh: Facebook Temporarily Blocked

Written by Rezwan · Bangladesh

Bangladesh has become the second country in Asia after Pakistan to block the entire Facebook domain. Bangladeshi bloggers are expressing their astonishment, anger and protest against this ban.

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27 May 2010

Anti-censorship movement in Tunisia: creativity, courage and hope!

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · Tunisia

Following the recent massive wave of online censorship carried out by the Tunisian censor, targeting major social websites, such as the popular video-sharing websites, flickr, blogs aggregators, blogs, facebook pages...

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20 May 2010

Egypt: Misuse of World Wide Web, Official Charge Against Activists

Written by Ramy Raoof · Egypt

AlKhalifa misdemeanor court will consider the case 8260/2009 on Saturday 22nd of May 2010, in which judge Abdel Fattah Mourad is accusing Ahmed Seif - Director of Hisham Mubarak Law...

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19 May 2010

China: Be aware! Google Earth leaks national secret

Written by Oiwan Lam · China

On May 6, famous blogger, William Long, was summoned by the Shenzhen Urban Planning and Land Supervision Division that a Google Earth picture indicating military facilities at www.moon-bbs.com is in...

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14 May 2010

Venezuela: Polemic raised due to the blockage of websites by governmental ISP

Written by Marianne Diaz · Venezuela

The main venezuelan ISP, Cantv.net, owned by venezuelan government, appears to be implementing its first censorship measures, by the blockage of two websites without any procedure.

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7 May 2010

GV summit 2010 Videos: A Discussion of Content Moderation

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · Hong Kong

During this panel discussion, Victoria Grand, Senior Manager for Communications at YouTube, speaks on content moderation processes providing a “behind-the-scenes” look at YouTube's content removal and deactivation policies. A “behind-the-scenes”...

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