China Requires Use of ‘Blue Dam’ Surveillance Software
Global Voices Advocacy tells us that China’s latest attempt to control the Internet – ‘Blue Dam’ – became active on September 13, and the government is requiring ISPs to use the software or face...
View ArticleIran Continues to Tighten Control Over Internet, Media
This New York Times piece nicely summarizes recent moves by the Iranian regime and the Revolutionary Guards to further clamp down on Iran’s already tightly controlled information space. The Times...
View ArticleChina and Iran Lead Way in Detention of Journalists
According to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists, China and Iran are the leading jailers of journalists in the world, with those two states accounting for more than a third of all...
View ArticleGoogle Threatens to Pull Out of China, Cites Censorship and Cyberattacks
A bombshell out of Google today as they threaten to leave the very lucrative Chinese market entirely due to recent cyberattacks on human rights activists, Google itself, and a range of corporate and...
View ArticleUS Set to Relax Internet Restrictions Towards Iran, Syria and Cuba
This morning the New York Times quotes a ‘senior administration official’ who says that the US is set to relax sanctions against Iran, Syria and Cuba to allow US companies such as Google, Microsoft and...
View ArticlePiracy Raids Lead to Blanket Microsoft Licenses for Russian Advocacy Groups
By Marianna Tishchenko This front page New York Times article, which describes how Russian officials have used trumped up charges of software piracy to pressure Russian advocacy groups, led quickly to...
View ArticleGoogle Releases Transparency Report, Showcases Government Censorship Worldwide
On Tuesday, Google released a Transparency Report that shows the number of government inquiries it receives for information about users and requests for Google to take down or censor content. The...
View ArticleMassive DDOS attack on Independent Media during Russian Duma Election
I’m just waking up to discover that, coinciding with today’s Russian Duma elections, there has been a series of major DDOS attacks that have at times brought down a number of leading independent media...
View ArticleCoordinated DDoS Attack During Russian Duma Elections
By Hal Roberts and Bruce Etling Over the course of the weekend, a seemingly coordinated distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack flooded a number of the leading Russian independent media, election...
View ArticleExploring Russian Cyberspace: New Internet and Democracy Publication (and...
As you’ve likely discovered from personal experience, timing is everything. And so the Internet & Democracy team is especially pleased to announce that just in time for this Sunday’s Russian...
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