Wannabe Prime Minister Andrea Leadsom thinks all websites should be rated – just like movies Maybe God told her to do it Networks08 Jul 2016 | 303
Maybe China's on to something: Clickbait articles now need to be 'verified' by officials It's like a spam filter only with faceless censors in charge Legal05 Jul 2016 | 13
China cybersec legislation inches towards law Controversial regulation gets second reading Legal29 Jun 2016 | 2
Bold stance: Microsoft says terrorism is bad Redmond vows to pull terror content from services On-Prem21 May 2016 | 53
China caught astroturfing social networks Harvard study blames state groups for 488m comments Legal20 May 2016 | 38
Censorship FTW! China bans Paris Hilton, minor Kardashians et al Middle Kingdom won't allow any more reality shows featuring celebrity offspring Legal19 Apr 2016 | 53
Egypt unfriended Facebook for Free Basics snoop snub Zuck told to Giza the heck out of here Networks01 Apr 2016 | 10
China enacts 'real name policy' for internet addresses It's like Facebook's only, you know, could land you in jail Legal01 Apr 2016 | 20
Cruz missile slams into DNS overlord ICANN over Chinese censorship Republican presidential frontrunner sends nastygram to CEO Legal04 Feb 2016 | 22
'Here are 400,000 smut sites. Block them' says Pakistani telco regulator Weary sysadmins copy pr0n to /dev/null Security27 Jan 2016 | 36
Net neutrality-lovin' Sweden mulls law to censor the internet Huge policy U-turn has ISP up in arms Networks22 Jan 2016 | 24
What if China went all GitHub on your website? Grab this coding tool But testing tool's taking flak from top infosec bods Security15 Jan 2016 | 13
Library web filtering removes info access for vulnerable, says shushing collective Both pro- and anti-filter advocates thinking of the kids Legal05 Jan 2016 | 38
New HTTP error code 451 to signal censorship Will help catalogue attempts to limit information Software21 Dec 2015 | 53
The Firewall Awakens: ICANN's exiting CEO takes internet governance to the dark side Welcome to the Chinese NetMundial Initiative Networks18 Dec 2015 | 28
Donald Trump wants Bill Gates to 'close the Internet', Jeff Bezos to pay tax Only the foolish oppose this on free speech grounds, says putative president Legal08 Dec 2015 | 219
Is Kazakhstan about to man-in-the-middle diddle all of its internet traffic with dodgy root certs? Come on, guys. Don't go giving the Russians any ideas Security03 Dec 2015 | 21
France's 3-month state of emergency lets govt censor the web Constitutional amendment has already passed lower lawmakers Legal20 Nov 2015 | 79
UK.gov plans to legislate on smut filters after EU net neutrality ruling PM Cameron hardens against pr0n to 'protect' kids Legal28 Oct 2015 | 42
That's a Tor order: Library gets cop visit for running exit relay in US Feds not happy with potentially criminal traffic running through public-funded network Networks10 Sep 2015 | 41
Reddit caves to Russian fungus censorship demands Child protection laws mean there's not mushroom for drug debates Legal14 Aug 2015 | 27
STOP! You – away from the keyboard. There's no free speech in our China Middle Kingdom ramps up ideological fight against non-reds under the bed Legal05 Aug 2015 | 34
Gay emojis? GAY EMOJIS?! Not here in Russia, comrade Bad Vlad mad over 'propaganda' pixels Bootnotes01 Aug 2015 | 33
Reddit scrubs up: Child abuse? Gone. Drugs? Cool. RACISM? FINE Child abuse banned, but being plain ol' offensive is all right Networks17 Jul 2015 | 16
Germany says no steamy ebooks until die Kinder have gone to bed Sour krauts stiffen up with 10pm smutty story watershed Legal23 Jun 2015 | 62
Google: Help us! Our search engine is STUFFED FULL of your 'revenge smut' pics We'll kill unauthorized nudes ... if you ask nicely, says ad giant SaaS19 Jun 2015 | 34
How swearing at your coworker via WhatsApp could cost you $68,000 Pro-tip: Don't be in the UAE Bootnotes16 Jun 2015 | 36
Chinese snoops try tracking VPN users with fiendish JSONP trickery Never mind your bank account. Tell me your name Security16 Jun 2015 | 3
Russia copies EU commissars with own right to be forgotten law For glory of perfect reputation of Motherland, tovarisch Storage08 Jun 2015 | 16
China cracks down further on VPNs as censorship intensifies But could use of other tools eventually bring down the Great Firewall? SaaS03 Jun 2015 | 13
Is your career lacking growth? Become a porn inspector! Hint: It sucks Can you beat off the stiff competition? Have you got what it takes? Find out Bootnotes22 May 2015 | 33
Google, Twitter search deal: Did micro-blabbing site gag racy tweets to satisfy ad giant? Comment Smutty material reportedly set to be covered up Legal20 May 2015 | 11
China weaponizes its Great Firewall into the GREAT FIRE CANNON, menaces entire globe You've got censorship – you've all got censorship now Networks10 Apr 2015 | 49
Bloke faces 25 years in the cooler for upsetting Thai king on Facebook Businessman given sentence over five pics in closed-door hearing Legal31 Mar 2015 | 33
Day FOUR of the GitHub web assault: Activists point fingers at 'China's global censorship' Code repository warns of 'evolving' attacks SaaS31 Mar 2015 | 27
GitHub jammed by injected JavaScript, servers whacked by DDoS Users unwittingly add to chronic traffic congestion SaaS27 Mar 2015 | 38
Cubans 'get' 'free community' 'Wi-Fi' The catch: you'll have to hang out with Castro's BFF to use it Networks17 Mar 2015 | 4
Google pulls out of gaping Blogger smut black hole Monday: Get rid of this filth ... By Friday: Oh my God, where have ALL the blogs gone? Bootnotes27 Feb 2015 | 10
'Come on, everyone – block US govt staff ogling web smut at work' House rep furious Uncle Sam's PCs allow through internet filth Legal14 Feb 2015 | 23
Watch: China has made an internet censorship THEME SONG Video Never has repression sounded so good Bootnotes12 Feb 2015 | 29
Twitter complies with Turkey's 'national security' blackout demand – BLOCKS newspaper's tweets Refuses to kill account Legal18 Jan 2015 | 12
Australia tries to ban crypto research – by ACCIDENT Academics could risk JAIL under defence trade laws starting in May Security14 Jan 2015 | 40
Speak your brains, Colombia – Facebook chief to walk among you soon Zero per cent chance of telling bossman to bog off in Bogotá On-Prem10 Jan 2015 | 2
Web daddy Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Back off Putin, I'm no CIA stooge WWW inventor hits back at Russia's claims 'net was an intelligence plot Legal11 Dec 2014 | 38
The internet is less free than last year. Thanks a bunch, Snowden Running around, warning everyone the NSA is spying on us all. What is he like? Security06 Dec 2014 | 57
Australia to social media: self-censor or face AU$17,000 FINES Anti-bullying bill calls on social networks to help out or be banished to naughty corner Legal03 Dec 2014 | 17
Brit smut slingers shafted by UK censors' stiff new stance No sex please, we're idiots – new ban on XXX acts in effect Legal02 Dec 2014 | 137
China BLOCKS Verizon's EdgeCast before internet meeting Content delivery network buried under Great Firewall Networks18 Nov 2014 | 10
Virgin Media CUTS OFF weekend 'net surfers after embarrassing smut-filtering snafu Web Safe FAIL kills access to loads of 'respectable' sites Networks09 Nov 2014 | 52
Verizon bankrolls tech news site, bans tech's biggest stories Updated No agenda here. Just don't ever mention Net neutrality or spying, ok? Legal29 Oct 2014 | 26
Hong Kong protest puts mesh nets to the test in state censorship smash FireChat becomes tool of choice for organizers Networks30 Sep 2014 | 8
Putin tells Google, Twitter, Facebook: Have a vodka and censorship on the rocks From Russia with no love – unless you register and obey Legal26 Sep 2014 | 37
NORKS ban Wi-Fi and satellite internet at embassies Crackdown on tardy diplomatic sysadmins providing accidental unfiltered internet access Legal12 Sep 2014 | 18
Oz biz regulator discovers shared servers in EPIC FACEPALM 'Not aware' that one IP can hold more than one Website Legal27 Aug 2014 | 31
Harvard boffins 'reverse-engineer' Chinese censorship Yes: criticise the government. No: organise protest Legal26 Aug 2014 | 11
eBay bans CD sales of metal band Burzum, citing offensive material Meanwhile, sales of Mein Kampf going strong Bootnotes09 Aug 2014 | 39
BANGKOK-BLOCKED: Thailand's dictators 'ban dictator sim Tropico 5' <blink> Irony alert </blink> Personal Tech05 Aug 2014 | 26
China blocks Google ahead of Tiananmen anniversary Greatfire.org pops up AWS mirror Legal03 Jun 2014 | 5