By Roy Choi |
Thursday a coalition of mostly Western nations refused to sign a new United Nations telecoms treaty. The 193-nation meeting in Dubai covered an array of telecommunications topics including Internet censorship, Internet fraud, spam, transparency on mobile phone charges, and internationally emergency phone number for mobile…
By Adriana Lee |
Score 1 for family-friendly web browsing: Google has changed its image search algorithm to prevent pornographic content from accidentally showing up in results. The move isn’t intended to censor material, says the company. It just wants to make sure provocative images are served up only…
By Sean P. Aune |
Twitter has announced that it now has the ability to censor messages on its network on a country by country basis. In a post on the official company blog, Twitter has announced that it now has the ability to censor tweets – the name for…
By Brandon Russell |
If you’re still unclear what exactly SOPA and PIPA mean for the Internet, we’ve provided a great explanation here. If you happen to be part of the tl;dr (“too long, didn’t read” for those not in the know) crowd, New Left Media has created a…
By Brandon Russell |
Many hard hitting government officials withdrew their support this week for two controversial anti-piracy bills, better known as SOPA and PIPA. A unified Internet demonstrated its staunch opposition for the bills by protesting and going dark, the largest and most talked about participants being Wikipedia…
