Tag Archives: censorship

So, You Thought You Are Invisible?

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So, did you really think so? Did you think that only “authorities” and certain agencies could find who you are, what you do, what is your IP, etc… etc… Well, if this is the case I got some really bad news for you – YOU ARE WRONG. In a moment you will get to the [...]

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SOPA = Internet No Longer Free

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Via Android Authority we bring you quite disturbing news in regard of new bill that is quite likely to be passed on as new law in USA. Because  it gives again, more power to “Hollywood & Entertainment” industry, it may lead to unauthorized censorship and may influence (in bad way) internet in the whole world we think [...]

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Simplified View of Internet Censorship – Part II

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On the first  part of this serie of articles with regard to censorship on the internet, we addressed how limitation can be done on your computer and at the corporate or ISP level. Let’s see on this second part how this censorship can be done at the country-level side. We all have heard countries who [...]

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Simplified View of Internet Censorship – Part I

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Last March, the buzz around the internet was that China is blocking access to some external sites, but since some clever users have figured out to using a VPN to overcome the issue, the Chinese government also begun to block some VPN implementations (PPTP and L2TP based VPN). Let’s take a simple look at how [...]

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The Chinese Dragon: Censorship of the Internet

Chinese authorities have recently been widely criticized for their well known censorship of various popular websites from the Chinese cyber space. This was all done in what was cited to be an attempt to ‘purify’ the online surfing experience of the average Chinese citizen. The Chinese citizens in question, however, beg to differ, and several [...]

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Internet Censorship Around The World

Thinking that it would be interesting to see what type of censorship is applied in each region of the world, the journalists from the Guardian have posted an online map documenting the presence of internet censorship around the globe. Even it’s 6 months old it’s still interesting shows how we stand in terms of censorship. Let’s take [...]

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Censorship In Run-up To 1 October Anniversary

Reporters Without Borders said yesterday that Internet control agencies have redoubled efforts to prevent Internet users based in China, including foreign residents, from using censorship circumvention software such as Freegate and virtual private networks (VPN). This is related to the 60th anniversary of the proclamation of the People’s Republic of China on 1 October. IP [...]

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Hotspot Shield unblocks Flickr in China

The last few days were quite difficult for Internet users in China. The Chinese government has blocked internet access to Twitter, Flickr, Blogger, WordPress, Bing, Live.com, Hotmail.com and several other sites. This is most probably related to the 20th anniversary of Tiananmen massacre on June 4th. There are several methods to overcome this censorship, the most effective being [...]

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Video: How China Censors the Internet

New internal documents leaked from Baidu, China’s biggest search engine, reveal how information is monitored and manipulated

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HerdictWeb Monitors Internet Censorship Around the World

Herdict is a project of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University that applies the Digg style crowd-sourcing model to Internet Censorship to help you get a much clearer view of net filtering around the world in almost real time. Herdict Web seeks to gain insight into what users around the world [...]

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