The Tunisian Internet Agency was the Ben Ali regime's instrument for censoring the web. Now, as it attempts to break ties with the past, Afef Abrougui talks to its CEO about the online challenges facing Tunisia

What the country's web restrictions mean for its foreign policy

Google can now make content on its Blogger platform selectively available to users based on local laws, in a move similar to Twitter's new country-specific censoring ability which prompted a backlash from critics.

China, one of the world's largest Internet markets, could be out of reach of Facebook because of the Chinese government's strict censorship policies, the company said in its filing for an initial public offering (IPO).

Given the huge hurdles Facebook has in China where Internet censorship has left it with near zero penetration, the giant tech company is turning instead to markets like India, Japan and South Korea to spur its growth in Asia.

Twitter's announcement last week that it could begin censoring tweets on a country-by-country basis drew criticism from many free-speech activists, including Reporters Without Borders, a global non-profit group that advocates for journalists

While Twitter's move to censor tweets on a country-by-country basis drew criticism across much of the globe, Thailand and China -- countries known for censoring their citizens' dislike of government -- applauded the change in policy.

While Twitter's move to censor tweets on a country-by-country basis drew criticism across much of the globe, Thailand and China -- countries known for censoring their citizens' dislike of government -- applauded the change in policy.

Twitter's recent announcement that it will censor specific tweets from some countries resulted in an anti-climatic "boycott" of the microblogging service on Saturday, and more importantly, a cartoon-ified interpretation by those clever kids at Taiwan's New Media Animation.

Today’s the big Stop SOPA/PIPA blackout day, where many popular websites are “going dark” to raise awareness of the dangers of the two Internet censorship bills in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, respectively. The Arkansas Project is not going dark, since this site is not and has never been popular. However, I [...]

Twitter has embraced censorship, many fear -- and the world’s most repressive regimes are applauding the move.

BANGKOK, Jan 30 — Thailand, which regularly cracks down on Internet content deemed critical of its revered monarchy, today welcomed social media giant Twitter’s controversial new censorship policy. The San Francisco-based networking website announced last week that it can now block tweets on a country-by-country basis if legally required, enraging ...

JAN 30 — Twitter’s announcement this week that it was going to enable country-specific censorship of posts is arousing fury around the Internet. Commentators, activists, protesters and netizens have said it’s “very bad news” and claim to be “#outraged”. Bianca Jagger, for one, asked how to go about boycotting Twitter, on Twitter, according to the ...

Thailand, which regularly cracks down on Internet content deemed critical of its revered monarchy, on Monday welcomed social media giant Twitter's controversial new censorship policy.

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Internet Giants Launch Anti-Phishing Drive . Google , Facebook , Microsoft , and 12 other companies are banding together to launch an attack on email security threats like phishing, a form of email spam that tricks you into sharing personal information. They've launched DMARC.org and a DMARC protocol, with the goal of getting ...

In Consent of the Networked , Rebecca MacKinnon investigates how the governments and corporations who control the digital world can impinge on our civil liberties.

It's official, Lamar Smith has withdrawn the Stop Online Piracy Act from the house. This should be a major victory for internet freedom, but coming on the heels of the government censoring Megaupload . . .

It isn't just one angry Indian against Google and Facebook. Internet freedom is on trial in India! The ham-handed, state-backed censorship of Salman Rushdie at the Jaipur Literary Festival earlier this month grabbed headlines -- 'The Republic bows before the Mob'.

Widespread public outrage over SOPA rallied Americans against the threat of internet censorship . But though the bill may be dead, there's plenty of censorship happening every day in our nation's public schools. Schools ban students from accessing websites from National Geographic to YouTube and Wikipedia, and all too often choose to confiscate smartphones and tablets instead of turning them ...

Internet scorn for Twitter’s announcement Thursday that it would censor tweets was swift and unforgiving.