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Censored Doonesbury Abortion Comics

The following abortion-themed Doonesbury comics by Garry Trudeau were censored, but were recently posted here. Whether or not you agree with pro-lifers or believe in women’s rights, censorship is...

20 Million to be Silenced in Pakistan?

In a shocking display of bravado, the Pakistani government has put an ad in their national papers asking for companies to help them build a national Chinese-style censorship firewall. This would censor 20 million internet users in one go! Since the ad was published, we’ve worked with our friends in Pakistan calling on the Prime Minister to...

Police Accidentally Censor Google, Facebook and 8,000 Other Sites

A “human error” carried out by the police resulted in thousands of websites being completely blocked at the DNS level yesterday. Danish visitors to around 8,000 sites including Google and Facebook were informed that the sites were being blocked by the country’s High Tech Crime Unit due to them offering child pornography, a situation which...

US Government ‘Suspends’ JotForm.com Over User Generated Forms

One of the key principles behind the growth of the internet was belief in protection against secondary liability claims. That is, if you set up a website where users can post stuff, the people who post stuff are liable for the content — not you as the service provider in the middle. This is the core purpose behind Section 230 of the CDA...

Facebook censorship rulebook leaked

A disgruntled agency worker has revealed Facebook’s rules for blocking offensive content – and while ‘crushed heads’ are fine, female nipples aren’t. Moroccan-born worker Amine Derkaoui was employed by oDesk to filter out offensive comment from Facebook, but released the policy to gossip site Gawker when he’d...

ACTA blowing up!

What started as a few scattered demonstrations against ACTA has exploded into an international day of action this Saturday! There are nearly 200 events across the world, with hundreds of thousands of people expected to hit the streets to protest this dangerous international agreement. Our feet have not yet hit the pavement, but our voices are...

Google and Facebook remove content in India

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 to be the world’s largest democracy. The Indian government has, for the past weeks, exerting...

Google To Now Censor Content on Blogger

After Twitter, Google will also now block posts/blogs from being available to users based on a country’s local laws, which is a move similar to Twitter’s country-specific censorship that sparked off an offense among various critics worldwide. Web critics have slammed the move saying, ‘the change marks a new trend in the Internet companies...