Censorship Stories for 2004

5th HOPE Conference Audio Online 9
China Closes 1,129 Web Sites 396
EFF Promotes Freenet-like System Tor 379
Following up on Torrent Shutdowns 1166
FCC Indecency Rules Don't Apply to Satellite Radio 330
GEICO vs Google Ads: Google Wins 205
China Bans Game Recognizing Taiwan Independence 892
Lone Activist Group Submits 99.8% of FCC Complaints 1373
Australia Chooses Education Over Filtering 244
Five Webloggers Jailed In Iran 21
China Blocking Access to Google News Site 451
Former Turkish DMOZ Editor Draws 10 Months In Jail 666
ID Required to Purchase Games 106
Blogging Sweeps China 122
Australian Idol And ISP Censorship 335
Internet Porn More Addictive Than Crack, Senate Told 886
FCC Claims Regulatory Power Over Home Computers 406
Marvel Sues City of Heroes Makers 186
Manhunt Murder Attorney Speaks 78
CBLDF Auction with Sim & Gaiman 72
U.S. Goverment Responds to EFF's Indymedia Motion 474
Best Buy: 20% Of Customers Are Wrong 1234
Google Image Index Just Not Updated 411
Google Censors Abu Ghraib Images [updated] 731
China Closes 1,600 "Internet Bars" 381
Nintendo Apologizes to SuicideGirls 423
Nintendo Threatens Suicidegirls Over IP Use 845
FCC's Powell vs. Howard Stern on KGO-AM 602
Project Gutenberg Threatened Over PG Australia 628
Slashback: Indymedia, Starfighter, Mozparty 180
Good Bad Attitude 653
The Empires Strike Back 446
Photo ID Required To Buy/Rent Games In Canada 381
Iranian Bloggers Arrested 28
FEC May Regulate Online Political Activity 302
Crackdown On Internet 'Hate' in Canada 51
China Rewards Porn Snitches 541
Indymedia Seizures Initiated In Europe 563
Censoring The Net With A Hotmail Account 286
CNN Uses DMCA Against Parody 33
Induce Act Stalled For Now 162
Indymedia Server Raided by FBI 1150
Leisure Suit Larry Banned 94
Stern Will Jump To Sirius In 2006 511
Detention Threat for Malaysian blogger 95
Internet Censorship in Australia? 717
Does Google Censor Chinese News? 547
Symantec Anti-Virus Supresses Privacy Tool 46
Pennsylvania Child Porn Act Overturned 337
Satellite Pics Going Dark? 369
VoIP Receives Warm Reception From UK Regulators 119
Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 2003-2004 921
Googling Behind China's Great Firewall 344
Secret Service Seeks Indymedia Logs 825
Top Banned Books of 2003 1033
PG-13 Rating Turns 20 321
Yahoo! Not Protected From French Anti-Nazi Laws 914
How Violent Media And Game Censorship Interact 79
Using Copyright To Suppress Political Speech 1324
Seagate Says Ex-Employee Can't Work For Competitor 585
States Threaten P2P Companies 690
Lawyer Sues Yahoo for Message Board Name-Calling 492
JibJab Sues for Fair Use of Right to Parody 273
Annual Big Brother Award Winners Announced 438
FCC Looks Into Regulating Violence on TV 506
Yahoo, Google 'Irresponsible' In China 41
Parody or Satire? Threat To Sue JibJab 710
Patriot Act Used to Enforce Copyright Law? 725
Copyright Bill could Stifle Innovation 597
Using P2P To Make Gov't Documents Easy To Find 171
RadioAid.com vs. Clear Channel Communications, Inc 22
Odeon Orders Takedown Of Copycat Site 478
PBS Feels FCC Chill On Censorship 1037
ESRB Responds To Mixed Review From FTC 35
Los Angeles To Impose Restrictions On Gaming Cybercafes 30
FCC to Require Broadcasters to Keep Tapes of Shows 531
Endangered Countries On The Internet 475
China Will Monitor, Censor SMS Messages 328
A Parent's Guide To Linux Web Filtering 529
Midway's Slugfest, Ballers Inappropriate For Kids? 89
Supreme Court Rules Against Anti-Porn Law 975
Sen. Hatch to Introduce Wide-ranging Copyright Bill 891
EU Pushes to Limit Internet Speech 1256
Japanese Balloon Battle 567
China Blocks Wikipedia 82
FCC Settles Censorship Claims with ClearChannel 357
Testing ISP Censorship 431
British Telecom Blocks Access to Child Porn Sites 835
Zimbabwe to Block & Censor E-mail, Identify Users 31
NAB Lobbying To Constrain Local Content On Satellite Radio 30
Strategy Videogame Upsets Chinese, Gets Banned 711
Brent Bozell on Nudity in Upcoming Video Games 92
Paypal Deals Blow To Freenet 595
Justice Department Censors ACLU Web Site 1209
New E3-Shown Games Push Sexual Envelope 91
Forget MTV, I Want My Internet! 386
"Decryption" of Bush Memo 55
A Retrospective On Sex In Videogames 49
Doug Lowenstein on Game Censorship 87
U.S. Gov Agency Blunders With Keyword Blacklist 240
China Plans Surveillance System for Internet Cafes 298
China Shuts Down 8,600 Cybercafes 57
Update on Playfair 370
Manitoba To Rate Video Games 16
Trusted Computing/DMCA vs. Diebold Pentagon Paper 290
Academics Take On Government Net Censorship 274
Webwasher versus Web Content Creators? 91
AmEx vs. rec.humor.funny 423
2004 Jefferson Muzzle Awards 440
Auto-Censoring DVD Player 1061
U.S. Justice Department Prepares Assault on Pr0n 1103
China Blocks Typepad, Prompts Weblog Blackout 422
New RFC Considers .sex TLD Dangerous 421
FCC to Regulate 'Profane' Speech 1206
Lessig On IP Protection, Conflict 217
Bypassing The Great Firewall of China 27
A History of Video Game Controversy 354
International Domain Name Disputes Analyzed 20
Domain-Name Protest Is Protected Speech 177
Legislators Looking At Peer to Peer Monitor 393
Controversial Manhunt Game Rated 'R' in Ontario 75
MSN Search Blocking Results For XFree86? 875
Infinium Labs Threatens HardOCP Again 463
U.S. Supreme Court to Debate COPA 29
'Extreme' Web Sites Under Fire From UK Police 1154
Freenet Project More Stable, In Need 606
Game Content Ratings Not Always To Be Trusted? 80
TeacherReviews.com Forced Offline 664
Chinese Internet Censorship Proves Difficult 338
Comcast Targets Internet "Abusers" 628
Super DMCA Bill In Tennessee 33
Seth Schoen Reveals Himself Author of DeCSS Haiku 155
Indian Police Demand Internet Monitoring In Bombay 33
BBC Buys Google News Keywords In Kelly Case 432
Removing Site from Spam Filters and ISP Blocks? 31
Part of Patriot Act Ruled Unconstitutional 661
Lieberman Weighs In On Grand Theft Auto 225
Cuban Government Toughens Internet Restrictions 53
Scary Barry, Wacky Jack Continue War On Violent Games 72
UK Mobile Providers Introduce WAP Censorship 205
Photoshop Fails At Counterfeit Prevention 712
U.S. Indicts Saudi Student For Website Contents 125
GTA Violence, the Media, and the Gamers 511
What You Can't Say 1999
Sim Sin City - Thoughts On Grand Theft Auto 76
Grand Theft Auto Ban To Be Decided By Courts 758