Censorship Stories for 2010

China Censors 60,000 Porn Sites, 5,000 Arrested 219
Amazon Censorship Expands 764
Court Rules Website Doesn't Have To Remove Defamatory Comments 145
Amazon Cloud Not Big Enough For Feds and WikiLeaks 204
The Wrong Way To Weaponize Social Media 90
UK Banks Attempt To Censor Academic Publication 162
Spanish Congress Rejects Internet Censorship Law 229
WikiLeaks Continues To Fund Itself Via Flattr 194
WikiLeaks App Removed From Apple Store 338
British ISPs Respond On Filtering 163
DHS Seized Domains Based On Bad Evidence 235
Al Franken Makes a Case For Net Neutrality 604
Can Zuckerberg Leap the Great Firewall of China? 102
UK Gov't Wants To Block Internet Porn By Default 642
The French Government Can Now Censor the Internet 419
Amazon Taking Down Erotica, Removing From Kindles 641
Air Force Blocks NY Times, WaPo, Other Media 372
WikiLeaks, Money, and Ron Paul 565
Venezuelan Gov't Seeks Internet Content Bill 248
Angles On Anonymous 383
Beating Censorship By Routing Around DNS 216
EasyDNS Falsely Accused of Unplugging WikiLeaks 267
China Blocks News Websites In Protest of Nobel 213
US To Host World Press Freedom Day 614
Racy Danish Tabloid May Sue Apple For App Rejection 319
Is Twitter Censoring Wikileaks Trends? 191
WikiLeaks Took Advice From Media Outlets 385
Australian R18 Games Rating Gets Gov't Support 87
WikiLeaks Starts Mass Mirroring Effort 586
China Views Internet As "Controllable" 185
Graduate Students Being Warned Away From Leaked Cables 685
WikiLeaks Moves To Swiss Domain After DNS Takedown 488
Google To Block Piracy-Related Terms From Autocomplete 275
Moscow Has Eyes On WikiLeaks, Too 579
Jailtime For Jailbreaking 281
Wikileaks Competitor In the Works 333
Chinese DNS Tampering a Real Threat To Outsiders 181
Apple Bans Android Magazine App From App Store 574
WikiLeaks Under Denial of Service Attack 870
Kuwait Not Banning DSLR Cameras After All 63
Kuwait Bans DSLR Cameras Use For Non-Journalists 446
Oregon Senator Stops Internet Censorship Bill 315
Oregon Senator Seeks To Block COICA 81
A Single Re-Tweet Lands Chinese Woman in Labor Camp 273
MPAA Dismisses COICA Free Speech Concerns 300
Internet Blacklist Back In Congress 278
Fedora Project Drops SQLNinja 'Hacker' Tool 159
Saudi Arabia Bans Facebook 227
UK Twitter Users Declare 'I'm Spartacus' 213
Facebook Postings Lead To Arrest for Heresy In the West Bank 496
After Online Defamation Suit, Dismissal of Malicious Prosecution Claim Upheld 267
Worker Rights Extend To Facebook, Says NLRB 340
TV Tropes Self-Censoring Under Google Pressure 393
Soviet Image Editing Tool From 1987 146
Kindle Allowing Chinese Unfettered Access To Web 138
Supreme Court Hears Violent Video Game Case Tomorrow 342
UK Wants ISPs To Be Responsible For Third Party Content Online 158
ACLU Says Net Neutrality Necessary For Free Speech 283
Scientists Fight Back In Canada 277
Apple Awarded Anti-Sexting Patent 184
Canon Blocks Copy Jobs Using Banned Keywords 309
Chinese Nobel Winner's Wife Detained 289
China Blanks Nobel Peace Prize Searches 326
UAE Says RIM Played Ball, Will Maintain Service 41
Libya Takes Hard Line On Link Shortening Domains 354
Monkey Island Creator Slams Corporate Control Over Game Publishing 298
White House Pressuring Registrars To Block Sites 569
Seven Words You Can't Say On Google Instant 257
Pentagon Makes Good On Plan To Destroy Critical Book 306
When the Senate Tried To Ban Dial Telephones 506
MPAA Asks If ACTA Can Be Used To Block Wikileaks 322
Google Publishes Censorship Map 154
WikiLeaks Founder 'Free To Leave Sweden' 410
T-Mobile Facing Lawsuit Over Text Message Censorship 181
In Canada, Criminal Libel Charges Laid For Criticizing Police 383
Conroy Still Hell-Bent On Internet Filter 254
72% of US Adults Support Violent-Game Ban For Minors 478
Canadian Government Muzzling Scientists 352
Pentagon Aims To Buy Up Book 347
Rackspace Shuts Down Quran-Burning Church's Sites 1695
European Parliament All But Rejects ACTA 248
The Gaping Holes In the UAE's Net Firewall 107
Fidel Castro, Internet News Junkie 241
Craigslist Removes Its Controversial Adult Section 522
GameStop Pulls Medal of Honor From Military Bases 362
Assange Rape Case Reopened 529
Library of Congress Opens Records of Anti-Comic Book Shrink 257
FCC Fights To Maintain Indecency Policy 602
Legal Threat Demands Techdirt Shut Down 346
Collage, and the Challenge of "Deniability" 94
North Korea Looking For Friends On Facebook 183
RIAA Wants 'Net Neutrality' To Include Filtering 212
German Photog Wants to Shoot Buildings Excluded From Street View 327
Australia Considering iPhone App Censorship 284
From Slaying Dragons To Dictators 233
Wikileaks Now Hosted By the Swedish Pirate Party 438
Controversy Arises Over Taliban Option In Medal of Honor 671
Getting Around Web Censors With Flickr 81
Narco-Blogger Beats Mexico Drug War News Blackout 518
Wikileaks To Publish Remaining Afghan Documents 711
ISP Owner Who Fought FBI Spying Freed From Gag Order 404
Human Rights Groups Join Criticism of WikiLeaks 578
Saudi Says RIM Deal Reached; BlackBerry OK, If We Can Read the Messages 185
Without Registration, Swedish Law Does Not Protect Wikileaks Sources 86
US Military 'Banned' From Viewing Wikileaks 390
Pentagon Demands Return of Leaked Afghanistan Documents 523
WikiLeaks 'a Clear and Present Danger,' Says WaPo 837
China's Firewall Stymies Google; Users Confused 34
Porn Sites Still Exposed In China 132
AU Government Censors Document On Planned Web Snooping 169
Australian Enterprises Block Sex Party's Political Site 160
China Says Google Pledged To Obey Censorship Demands 177
Blogetery Shutdown Due To al-Qaeda Info 330
New Chinese Rule Requires Real Names Online 193
Italian Draft Wiretapping Law Under Fire 150
China's 'Green Dam' Software Program Near Collapse 46
Massachusetts Bids To Restrict Internet Indecency 214
Apple Censors Consumer Report iPhone4 Discussions 588
China Says US Uses Facebook To Spread Political Unrest 274
China Censors HIV/AIDS Awareness Documentary 120
Internet Censorship Arms Race Gets New Weapon From Georgia Tech 75
China Renews Google's Content Provider License 64
Australia Waters Down, Delays Internet Filter Policy 122
Copyright As Weapon In US Senate Campaign 409
TSA Internally Blocking Websites With 'Controversial Opinions' 147
Tunneling Under the Great Firewall? 403
Some Google Searches Now Blocked In China 84
Congress Mulls China's Networked Authoritarianism 156
UK Police Threaten Teenage Photojournalist 344
Google To End Google.cn Redirect 183
ACTA Is Backta, New Round of Talks Start Today 73
Reporters Without Borders Fight Web Censorship 42
Pakistan To Scour Google, Yahoo For Blasphemy 371
Google Considers China's "Web Mapping License" 133
Say No To a Government Internet "Kill Switch" 433
China Restricts Minors From Using Virtual Currency 142
Wikileaks Founder Advised To Avoid American Gov't 632
Wikileaks Source Outed To Stroke Hacker's Own Ego 347
Pakistani Lawyer Wants Mark Zuckerberg Executed 1318
Australian Government May Shelve Internet Filter 143
Thailand Shuts Down 43,000 More Websites 166
Iceland Votes "Já" To Proposed News Haven 232
Pentagon Seeking Out Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange 628
China Explains Internet Situation In Whitepaper 115
Turkey Has Reportedly Banned Google 531
Activists Worry About a New "Green Dam" In Vietnam 59
University Networks Block Student Project 167
Porn Sites Pop Up In China 126
PA Appeals Court Weighs Punishment For Students' Online Parodies 319
Wikileaks Was Launched With Intercepts From Tor 157
Anti-Bieber Software Maker Gets Death Threats 14
Pakistan Lifts Ban After Facebook Deletes Offending Page 677
Where Do You Go When Google Locks You Out? 332
Bangladesh Blocks Facebook Over Muhammad Cartoons 562
German Publishers Want Censorship Talks With Apple 197
Porn Ban Being Considered In South Africa 240
Decency Group Says "$#*!" Is Indecent 821
YouTube Blocked In Pakistan 299
Australian Women Fight Over "Geekgirl" Trademark 187
Australia Air Travelers' Laptops To Be Searched For Porn 647
Pakistan Court Orders Facebook Ban Over Mohammed Images 949
Google Stops Ads For "Cougar" Sites 319
ACLU Sues To Protect Your Right To Swear 698
Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Has Passport Confiscated 197
Wikimedia Confusion Swirls In Wake of Porn Charges 267
In UK, First "Anarchist's Cookbook" Downloaders' Convictions 418
AU R18+ Rating Plans Put On Hold Due To "Interest Groups" 139
DNSSEC and the Geopolitical Future of the Internet 70
Judge Closes Online Access To Info On Civil Case 64
Australian Gov't Claims Internet Filter Legislation Still In Play 98
Australian Government Delays Internet Filter Legislation 255
South Park's Episode 201 — the Expurgated Version 1224
Extremists Warn South Park Creators Over Muhammad In a Bear Suit 1131
ACTA Treaty Released 205
Website Mass-Bans Users Who Mention AdBlock 660
EFF Assails YouTube For Removing "Downfall" Parodies 294
Google Enumerates Government Requests 216
Bad PR Forces Apple To Reconsider Banning Mark Fiore's App 241
Ireland May Be Next To Censor the Internet 155
Apple Blocks Cartoonist From App Store 664
British Chiropractors Drop Case Against Simon Singh 182
Thailand Cracks Down On Twitter, Facebook, Etc. 130
A Detailed Dive Into China's Information Underground 65
WikiLeaks' International Man of Mystery 116
Larry Sanger Tells FBI Wikipedia Distributes "Child Pornography" 572
Oz Pirate Party Tells the Elderly How To Bypass the Net Filter 275
In the UK, a Victory For Free Speech 130
Journalists' Yahoo E-Mail Accounts Compromised In China 130
Will Australia Follow China's Google Ban? 280
US-Australia Tensions Rise Over Net Filter 169
Pirate Party Pillages Private Papers 210
Chinese Root Server Shut Down After DNS Problem 91
A Look Into China's Web Censorship Program 125
Fixing Internet Censorship In Schools 207
China's Great Firewall Infects Other Countries 178
We're Staying In China, Says Microsoft 249
Chinese Reactions To Google Leaving China 249
Venezuela's Last Opposition TV Owner Arrested 433
GoDaddy Follows Google's Lead; No More Registrations In China 243
Sergey Brin On Google and China 368
China Hits Back At Google 432
Google's New Approach For China Is To Serve From Hong Kong 295
Child Vampire Hunters Caused Comic Censorship 8
Switzerland Passes Violent Games Ban 294
Anti-Gamer South Australian Attorney General Quits 104
Federal Judge Bars Instant Publishing of Analysts' Stock Tips 133
Aussie Gamers Dress As Zombies To Raise R18+ Awareness 85
Scientology Tries To Block German Documentary 565
Filter Vendor Agrees Aussie Censorship Can't Work As Promised 143
Venezuela's Chavez To Limit Internet Freedom 452
Brinksmanship Continues In Google-China Row Over Censorship 133
China Warns Google To Obey Or Leave 533
A Sad Day For the New Zealand Internet 221
Pennsylvania CISO Fired Over Talk At RSA Conference 147
PayPal Freezes Cryptome's Account 253
Venezuela Bans Hostile Videogames and Toys 335
DMCA Amendment Proposed For UK 208
North Korea's Own OS, Red Star 316
Google Asks US For WTO Block On China Censorship 115
A Second Lessig Fair-Use Video Is Suppressed By WMG 187
Man Defends His Right To Flip Off the Police 44
California Legislature Declares "Cuss-Free" Week 262
Court Rules "Zombies" Have Free Speech Rights 10
US Lawmakers Set Sights On P2P Programs 180
Aussie Internet Censorship Minister Censors Self 158
Microsoft Says It Never Meant To Knock Cryptome Offline 176
Google Italy Execs Convicted Over YouTube Bullying Video 391
AU Internet Censorship Spells Bad News For Gamers 152
Magicjack Loses Legal Attack Against Boing Boing 148
Simon Singh To Appeal In UK Court Today 213
Apple Bans Sexy Apps, Developers Upset 492
Google To Restart Talks With China 118
IOC Orders Blogger To Take Down Video 389
Switzerland Pursues Violent Games Ban 276
French Net Censorship Plan Moves Forward 108
Aussie Attorney General Says Gamers Are Scarier Than Biker Gangs 409
Google Patents Country-Specific Content Blocking 106
Operation Titstorm Hits the Streets 458
Google.cn Still Remains In China 103
Anonymous Speaks About Australian Gov't. Attacks 235
Wikileaks and Iceland MPs Propose Journalism Haven 153
France Votes Tuesday On Net Censorship 134
Google Rejects Australian Censorship Proposal 197
Iran Suspends Google's Email Service 436
Italian Court Rules ISPs Must Block Access To Pirate Bay 208
Power To the Pop-Ups 204
Hackers Attack AU Websites To Protest Censorship 334
Appeals Court Rules On Internet Obscenity Standards 697
Verizon Blocking 4chan 677
Mentioning Android Is a No-No In iPhone App Store 441

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