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French Gov/Military Bans this Wikipedia Entry, go have a look for lulz: Pierre-sur-Haute military radio station
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_radio_station_of_Pierre-sur-Haute
Continue reading...UK initiates Blogger Licensing
Thursday, March 21, 2013
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/mar/19/bloggers-libel-fines-press-regulation
Continue reading...Iran blocks VPN access to global web, cracks down on ‘illegal’ filter workaround
Thursday, March 14, 2013
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http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/10/iran-blocks-vpn-filters-internet/
Continue reading...Pirate Bay Censorship Turns Proxies Into Local Heroes
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
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http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-censorship-turns-proxies-into-local-heroes-130204/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: Torrentfreak (Torrentfreak)
Continue reading...Project Censored
Thursday, December 6, 2012
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http://www.boulderweekly.com/article-9940-project-censored.html
Continue reading...News: UK plans to block online porn for minors
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
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UK government is moving forward with its plans to block online porn for minors: Anyone buying a new computer or signing up with a new Internet service provider (ISP) will be asked whether they have children on first login. On ‘yes‘ further ...
Continue reading...Reality Exploit Roundtable EP012: Mindmelding, Facebook: ‘We are THE Internet’, Russia Saves the Children, US Campaign Data Mining your Ass
Friday, November 2, 2012
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Reality Exploit Roundtable Episode 012 Show Notes Moderator: Voodoo Recording Time: 2100 UTC 2012-11-01 Show notes and episode download link: TBD Intro music by Sun Araw – “Deep Cover” Panelists Voodoo: Black and Yellow Pages, Beer Can Engines Smugggler: http://anarplex.net, http://shadowlife.cc Plato: Twitter, Reddit Hiro: Agorist Radio Wise-Guy: Topics INTRO: TOPIC 1 – Plato MindMeld [...]
Continue reading...Reality Exploit Roundtable EP010: MEK gets on Terrorist Buddy List, We saw what you Read, CleanIT for a Proper Internet, Drone Death Squads in Mexico
Thursday, September 27, 2012
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Reality Exploit Roundtable Episode 010 Show Notes Moderator: Voodoo Recording Time: 1800 UTC 2012-09-24 Show notes and episode download link: TBD Intro music by Sun Araw – “Deep Cover” Panelists Voodoo: Black and Yellow Pages, Beer Can Engines Smugggler: http://anarplex.net, http://shadowlife.cc Plato: Twitter, Reddit Hiro: Agorist Radio Wise-Guy Topics INTRO: TOPIC 1 – Plato US [...]
Continue reading...Reality Exploit Roundtable EP010: MEK gets on Terrorist Buddy List, We saw what you Read, CleanIT for a Proper Internet, Drone Death Squads in Mexico
Monday, September 24, 2012
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Show: Reality Exploit Roundtable Episode: 10 Date: Sept 24, 2012 Topics: MEK gets on Terrorist Buddy List, We saw what you Read, CleanIT for a Proper Internet, Drone Death Squads in Mexico Moderator: Voodoo Panelists: Voodoo, Hiro, Smuggler, Wise-Guy, Plato Tags: anarchism, big brother, censorship, death squads, drones Intro music by Sun Araw – “Deep [...]
Continue reading...Reality Exploit Roundtable EP010: MEK gets on Terrorist Buddy List, We saw what you Read, CleanIT for a Proper Internet, Drone Death Squads in Mexico
Monday, September 24, 2012
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Show: Reality Exploit Roundtable Episode: 10 Date: Sept 24, 2012 Topics: MEK gets on Terrorist Buddy List, We saw what you Read, CleanIT for a Proper Internet, Drone Death Squads in Mexico Moderator: Voodoo Panelists: Voodoo, Hiro, Smuggler, Wise-Guy, Plato Tags: big brother, drones, censorship Intro music by Sun Araw – “Deep Cover” Panelists Voodoo: [...]
Continue reading...Opera Web Browser Unblocks The Pirate Bay
Friday, July 6, 2012
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http://torrentfreak.com/unblock-the-pirate-bay-120705/
Continue reading...Turkey Bans Pastebin and Tinyurl
Friday, March 16, 2012
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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/03/16/0136208/turkey-bans-pastebin-and-tinyurl#comments
Continue reading...RetroShare Brings Anonymous File-Sharing To the Masses
Friday, March 16, 2012
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http://www.webpronews.com/retroshare-brings-anonymous-file-sharing-to-the-masses-2012-03 “RetroShare is about creating a private space on the Internet. A social collaboration network where you can share anything you want. A space that is free from the prying eyes of governments, corporations and advertisers. This is vitally important as our freedom on the Internet is under increasing threat.RetroShare is free from censorship: like [...]
Continue reading...Paypal Forces E-Book Sales Underground Using Alternate Currencies
Monday, February 27, 2012
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http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/26/paypal-erotica-smashwords-censorshi/
Continue reading...Paypal Forces Filedownloaders to Share Underground with Alternate Currency
Monday, February 27, 2012
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http://torrentfreak.com/cyberlocker-to-shut-down-after-paypal-ban-120226/
Continue reading...From encryption to darknets: Advances in bypassing Government Snooping
Friday, February 24, 2012
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http://arstechnica.com/business/the-networked-society/2012/02/from-encryption-to-darknets-as-governments-snoop-activists-fight-back.ars
Continue reading...Facebook, Google to Join Hands with India to Censor Net
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/indian-court-forces-facebook-google-to-censor-content/8643?tag=mantle_skin;content
Continue reading...Bradley Manning Should Be Court-Martialed Court Official Recommends
Thursday, January 12, 2012
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/manning-court-martialed/
Continue reading...Belarus: Browsing Foreign Websites a Misdemeanor?
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205402929_text
Continue reading...Proxy Hacks: HTTPTunnel – Tunnel Network over Get/Post Requests
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
http://kakku.wordpress.com/2007/11/25/proxy-hacks-final-httptunnel-tcpip-connections-over-plain-old-get-and-post-requests/#more-45
Continue reading...SOPA Will Mean The End of Reddit, Says General Manager
Saturday, December 24, 2011
http://torrentfreak.com/sopa-will-mean-the-end-of-reddit-says-general-manager-111219/
Continue reading...YouTube gives UMG right to block or remove videos it doesn’t own
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/umg-we-have-the-right-to-block-or-remove-youtube-videos.ars
Continue reading...Syria ‘bans iPhones’ over protest footage
Monday, December 5, 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16009975
Continue reading...HideMyAss VPN Service Rats on Lulzsec and Turns Government Spy Op
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
http://blog.hidemyass.com/2011/09/23/lulzsec-fiasco/
Continue reading...China Calls for Crackdown on Internet Rumors To Prevent “Arab Spring” Style Uprising
Monday, September 5, 2011
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/09/02/china-calls-crackdown-internet-rumors-prevent-arab-spring-style-uprising-67441/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: AlexanderHigginsBlog (Alexander Higgins Blog)
Continue reading...Feds Charge Man As Enemy Combatant Supporting Terrorism For Uploading Youtube Video
Monday, September 5, 2011
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/09/02/feds-charge-man-enemy-combatant-supporting-terrorism-uploading-youtube-videos-67721/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: AlexanderHigginsBlog (Alexander Higgins Blog)
Continue reading...Censored by the CIA
Thursday, September 1, 2011
http://www.salon.com/books/laura_miller/2011/08/30/censored_by_cia
Continue reading...As Governments Get Censorship Happy, More Technologies Popping Up To Route Around That
Saturday, August 20, 2011
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110815/03054815523/as-governments-get-censorship-happy-new-technologies-popping-up-to-route-around-that.shtml
Continue reading...Law Professors vs the PROTECT IP Act
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/05/0023216/Law-Professors-vs-the-PROTECT-IP-Act Senator Leahy’s ‘PROTECT IP Act.’ Quoting: ‘The Act would allow the government to break the Internet addressing system. It requires Internet service providers, and operators of Internet name servers, to refuse to recognize Internet domains that a court considers “dedicated to infringing activities.” But rather than wait until a Web site is actually judged [...]
Continue reading...Tenn. law bans posting images that “cause emotional distress”
Friday, June 17, 2011
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/tenn-law-bans-posting-images-that-cause-emotional-distress.ars
Continue reading...U.S. Hopes “Internet in a Suitcase” Will Offset Internet Censorship
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/us_hopes_internet_in_a_suitcase_will_offset_intern.php#.TfakikNi4ds;hackernews
Continue reading...Visiting Thailand? Make sure you have not insulted the king in past decade…
Monday, May 30, 2011
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/05/29/2123239/US-Citizen-Visiting-Thailand-Arrested-For-Blog-Posting?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: Slashdot/slashdot (Slashdot) “A US citizen, upon visiting Thailand for medical treatment, was arrested for lese majeste (insulting the king) and computer crimes (‘entering false information into a computer system’). He is charged for posting a link on his blog to a banned book, The King Never Smiles, and for translating excerpts of it. He [...]
Continue reading...G8 vs The Individual: Sarkozy wants “Civilized Internet” using words: “Law” “Democracy” “Responsibility”
Thursday, May 26, 2011
http://g8internet.com/
Continue reading...New “ShaperProbe” tool detects ISP traffic shaping
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/new-shaperprobe-tool-detects-isp-traffic-shaping.ars
Continue reading...Government Orders YouTube To Censor Protest Videos
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
http://theintelhub.com/2011/05/20/government-orders-you-tube-to-censor-protest-videos/
Continue reading...Browsers without address bars?
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
http://scripting.com/stories/2011/05/21/browsersWithoutAddressBars.html I was taking a taxi from Montego Bay to Negril in Jamaica in 1988 or so. My driver, a friend of my uncle’s named Indian (all Jamaicans have second names like that), pointed out a community with dozens of identical bungalows. He said Cubans built them. They have all the modern conveniences but no [...]
Continue reading...Tweeter To Be Prosecuted, Twitter Now Censoring?
Monday, May 23, 2011
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/05/22/1146221/Tweeter-To-Be-Prosecuted-Twitter-Now-Censoring?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: Slashdot/slashdot (Slashdot) For our UK readers behind the Great Crown Firewall: Ryan Giggs
Continue reading...France lobbies G8 for Internet Control and Censorship
Monday, May 23, 2011
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/20/france-lobbies-g8-fo.html
Continue reading...U.S. To Introduce Draconian Anti-Piracy Censorship Bill
Sunday, May 22, 2011
http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-to-introduce-draconian-anti-piracy-censorship-bill-110511/ To quash allegedly copyright infringing sites more effectively U.S. lawmakers introduced the PROTECT IP Act last week. Aside from domain seizures, the new bill will also make it possible to block sites on an ISP level, to censor search engines, and to cut funding of allegedly copyright-infringing websites.
Continue reading...Africa’s cascade of Internet censorship – filtering has been initiated in Ethiopia, Uganda, Ivory Coast and beyond
Friday, May 13, 2011
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/05/2011512134039497302.html
Continue reading...Proposed Crime Bill Makes Anonymity and Hyperlinks Illegal in Canada
Friday, May 13, 2011
http://openmedia.ca/blog/proposed-crime-bill-makes-anonymity-and-hyperlinks-illegal-canada
Continue reading...The Pirate Bay: “The Battle of Internets is About to Begin”
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-the-battle-of-internets-is-about-to-begin-110509/
Continue reading...@Telecomix: RT @Skhaen: Apparently the Syrian regime has blocked port #443 and now no #HTTPS website works #Syria
Thursday, May 5, 2011
RT @skhaen: Apparently the Syrian regime has blocked port #443 and now no #HTTPS website works #Syria — Telecomix (@telecomix) 5 de mayo de 2011
Continue reading...The Not-So-Great Firewall of Europe
Friday, April 29, 2011
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2011/04/non-so-great-firewall-of-europe.html
Continue reading...Russian security service wants to ban Skype and Gmail – “Uncontrolled Use” Poses “Security Threat”
Monday, April 11, 2011
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/8438617/Russian-security-service-wants-to-ban-Skype-and-Gmail.html
Continue reading...Unorthodox links to the internet: Signalling dissent
Friday, March 25, 2011
http://www.economist.com/node/18386151
Continue reading...China pledges to step up “administration” of Internet
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/378898/china_pledges_step_up_administration_internet/ …noted the need to ‘strengthen the development of civic morality’ and ‘speed up the establishment of moral and behavioral norms that carry forward traditional Chinese virtues.’
Continue reading...Libya Internet Kill Switch Working as Planned
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41911692/ns/technology_and_science-security/
Continue reading...Swedes to Try Assange in Secret Star Chamber?
Saturday, February 26, 2011
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-07/assange-lawyer-tells-u-k-court-swedish-prosecutor-abusing-power.html “What is in Swedish law ‘minor rape’ does not amount to rape in any other European country,” Robertson said. “The charge does not meet the European law standard concept of rape.”(…) Brita Sundberg-Weitman, a retired Swedish judge who is now an academic, said in testimony at today’s hearing that the legal process in the [...]
Continue reading...Updates on Libya Internet “Outages”
Thursday, February 24, 2011
http://www.monkey.org/~labovit/blog/
Continue reading...US Senators decry link between Egypt, ‘kill switch’ bill: “We Are Different”
Thursday, February 3, 2011
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20030332-281.html
Continue reading...Egypt’s Last Centralized ISP Put In A Chokehold
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/01/31/egypts-last-internet-lifeline-put-in-a-chokehold/
Continue reading...WikiLeaks Exposes New Egypt Docs Amid Protests. Will Anyone There See Them?
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/01/28/wikileaks-drops-new-egypt-revelations-amid-protests-will-anyone-there-see-them/
Continue reading...Liking Egypts Example, US Gov Puts Internet ‘Kill Switch’ Legislation Back in Play
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/01/kill-switch-legislation/
Continue reading...China blocks ‘Egypt’ on Twitter-like site
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/world/china-blocks-egypt-on-twitter-like-site/story-e6frfkui-1225996626566
Continue reading...20 Ways to Circumvent the Egyptians Governments’ Internet Block
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
http://pastebin.com/9jJUku77
Continue reading...Communicate if Your Government Shuts Off Your Internet
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Communicate_if_Your_Government_Shuts_Off_Your_Internet
Continue reading...Google Autocomplete Censoring: ‘How to kidnap a child” OK. – “Torrent” EVIL.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
http://www.techi.com/2011/01/google-censorship/
Continue reading...UN Attempts to Make Internet Power Grab
Friday, December 17, 2010
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/242051,un-mulls-internet-regulation-options.aspx
Continue reading...French Government Protecting World From French Users, World Applauds
Friday, December 17, 2010
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.lepoint.fr/high-tech-internet/le-gouvernement-pourra-filtrer-internet-16-12-2010-1275995_47.php
Continue reading...US Air Force Shoves Soldiers Heads in Sand
Friday, December 17, 2010
US Air Force Shoves Soldiers Heads in Sand Watch this video on YouTube.
Continue reading...U.S. Military in Iraq Tries to Intimidate Soldiers Into Not Reading Wikileaks
Saturday, December 4, 2010
http://gawker.com/5705639/us-military-in-iraq-tries-to-intimidate-soldiers-into-not-reading-wikileaks
Continue reading...Australian Gov Adds Wikileaks to Banned Website List. Link to them? $11K Aus@Day Fine
Monday, November 29, 2010
Australian Gov Adds Wikileaks to Banned Website List. Link to them? $11K Aus@Day Fine
Continue reading...Chinese Gov Pays $79K USD to Informants Helping Shut Down 60K Porn Sites
Monday, November 29, 2010
Chinese Gov Pays $79K USD to Informants Helping Shut Down 60K Porn Sites
Continue reading...Bulletproof Service Providers
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Bulletproof Service Providers
Continue reading...Reality Exploit Roundtable EP010: MEK gets on Terrorist Buddy List, We saw what you Read, CleanIT for a Proper Internet, Drone Death Squads in Mexico
Sunday, October 10, 2010
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Show: Reality Exploit Roundtable Episode: 10 Date: Sept 9, 2012 Topics: MEK gets on Terrorist Buddy List, We saw what you Read, CleanIT for a Proper Internet, Drone Death Squads in Mexico Moderator: Voodoo Panelists: Voodoo, Hiro, Smuggler, Wise-Guy, Plato Tags: big brother, drones, censorship Intro music by Sun Araw – “Deep Cover” Panelists Voodoo: [...]
Continue reading...Icelandic journo to Cheney: You Can’t Touch WikiLeaks
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Link: Icelandic journo to Cheney: You Can’t Touch WikiLeaks
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