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Protesters Left in the Dark as Egypt Blocks Internet
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsIf you've read any coverage of the anti-government protests in Egypt over the past week, then you'll likely know that social media has played a vital role in the uprising. Pro-democracy campaigners have used sites such as Twitter and Facebook to organize rallies and share cell phone video footage of their often-violent clashes with police. But that online activism all stopped at 12:30 a.m. today, when President Hosni Mubarak's regime abruptly switched off the country's main Internet and cell phone networks. Peter Macdiarmid, Getty Images Protesters use their mobile telephones to ...
Internet Kill Switch: Should the United States Emulate Egypt?
By David Knowles - AOL NewsTurn it off, quick! As was witnessed Thursday in Egypt, the embattled government acted to shut down the Internet as demonstrations fueled by social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter threatened to overwhelm the ruling party. While pulling the plug on the World Wide Web might seem like a measure relegated to the governments of Iran, Egypt and China, it turns out that just such a proposal is being considered in the United States Congress. Championed by Sen. Joe Lieberman, the bill would give President Barack Obama (and those who succeed him) control to snuff out the Internet in one ...
Will 'Porn Lock' in UK and France Lead to Internet Censorship?
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsJust days after France passed legislation requiring Internet service providers to block child-pornography websites, British officials said they want to block all porn on the Web. Critics of both "porn lock" initiatives say they may be the first steps in controlling the Internet in those countries. Ed Vaizey, Britain's communications minister, told the Sunday Times the government is considering a plan to restrict pornography websites to protect children from seeing them. "This is a very serious matter. I think it is very important that it's the ISPs that some up with solutions to protect ...
Air Force Joins the War on WikiLeaks and The New York Times
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Dec. 14) -- It's held off on using bombers for now, but the Air Force has stepped up its opposition to international media organization WikiLeaks. It has reportedly blocked access to WikiLeaks and media websites such as The New York Times, The Guardian and Der Spiegel that originally published WikiLeaks documents. According to Reuters, an Air Force spokeswoman called the action "routine." The Air Force is just the latest in a litany of high-profile enemies lining up against WikiLeaks. Visa, MasterCard and PayPal all cut their services to the whistle-blower group, effectively kneecapping its ...
Twitter Message Lands Chinese Woman Yearlong Labor Camp Sentence
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Nov. 18) -- Be careful what you tweet. Chinese social activist Cheng Jianping -- aka @wangyi09 -- was sentenced to one year of "re-education" in a Chinese labor camp for retweeting a message sent by her fiance, Hua Chunhui, during anti-Japan demonstrations in China last month. The tweet in question, which Hua claims was a joke, ridiculed protesters, regarding their demonstration as "nothing new" and saying that if they actually want to have an "impact they should smash the Japanese Pavilion on the Shanghai Expo," according to the BBC. Offering her own flair, Cheng added the words "charge, ...
Pakistan's Web Ban Is Part of Broader Crackdown
By Adnan R. Khan - AOL NewsISLAMABAD, Pakistan (May 22) -- This nation's ban on Facebook and YouTube this week has reopened a fierce debate on freedom of information in a country that seemed on its way to being a developing-world leader in promoting citizen access to the Web. The ban, which also covers Wikipedia and Flickr, comes after a Facebook group declared May 20 to be "Draw Muhammad Day." But critics say that was a convenient excuse for broader moves to curtail access to what has been a largely uncensored Web in Pakistan. The International Telecommunications Union estimates that 18.5 million of the nation's 175 ...
Internet Freedom Battle: Hillary Clinton's Policy Speech, Google's Stand in China
By Andrew Clark - Politics DailySecretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered Thursday what has been described as a first-of-its-kind, historic speech detailing U.S. policy toward Internet freedom around the world. This was in response to Google's recent announcement that it has plans to end all censorship filters on its search engines in China -- and may even consider withdrawing from the country's market altogether -- in response to a cyber-attack on the Gmail (Google's e-mail service) accounts of Chinese human rights activists. Clinton spelled out American policy in plain terms: "We stand for a single Internet where all ...
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