Censorship

Apple, Google yank opposition voting strategy app from Russian software stores

Oh, sorry, we thought you wanted us to obey the law?! – Silicon Valley

Applications18 Sep 2021 | 37

Chinese app binned by Beijing after asking what day it is on anniversary of Tiananmen Square massacre

Hybrid Instagram/Amazon app Xiaohongshu may just have been making mirthful TGIF post

Legal08 Jun 2021 | 24

Tiananmen Square Tank Man vanishes from Microsoft Bing, DuckDuckGo, other search engines – even in America

Coincidentally, it's the 32nd anniversary of the 1989 massacre in Beijing

Personal Tech04 Jun 2021 | 113

Cloudflare stops offering to block LGBTQ webpages

Like, you wouldn't filter out pages by Black people, right?

Networks21 May 2021 | 89

Russia botches Twitter throttling, cripples anything with t-dot-co in the name – including Reddit, Microsoft

See, regular expressions are hard

Networks10 Mar 2021 | 16

India's demand to identify people on chat apps will 'break end-to-end encryption', say digital rights warriors

Announced rules also require fast takedowns of content, online profile verification, and more

Security26 Feb 2021 | 32

Cambodia to force all internet traffic through national 'Internet Gateway'

De facto one-party state decrees censorship scheme that sounds a lot like China's Great Firewall

Networks18 Feb 2021 | 16

Myanmar Junta delivers harsh cyber law and more IP blocking orders

Gives itself power to snoop and block anything, anytime – but at least it’s also consulted with industry

Networks12 Feb 2021 | 25

.uk registry operator Nominet responds to renewed criticism – by silencing its critics

It’s always important for us to understand your views. That's why we’re shutting them down

Networks23 Sep 2020 | 68

Pakistan demands TikTok and YouTube block 'vulgar' content

Calls for more moderation to stop video nasties reaching local eyeballs

Personal Tech01 Sep 2020 | 15

China's internet watchdog freezes 10 too-trashy online video services before they undermine socialism

Scantily-clad presenters and vulgar language 'corrupt the social atmosphere' and 'endanger the healthy growth of young people'

Personal Tech24 Jun 2020 | 26

Facebook to save US users from ads bought by foreign state-controlled media

Leaving more room for false ads bought by local politicians, which it still allows

Security05 Jun 2020 | 23

Zuck loves free speech so much Facebook will censor 'anti-state' content in Vietnam after telcos 'crippled' access

Updated Fine, fine, we'll ban whatever the government says is illegal, just give us back access, says US giant

Networks22 Apr 2020 | 18

Cloudflare family-friendly DNS service flubs first filtering foray: Vital LGBTQ, sex-ed sites blocked 'by mistake'

Updated For a biz that prides itself on not censoring the internet, it sure likes censoring the internet

Security01 Apr 2020 | 95

Super-leaker Snowden punts free PDF* of tell-all NSA book with censored parts about China restored, underlined

* In Simplified Chinese

Bootnotes10 Feb 2020 | 48

Like other tech giants, Netflix gets govt takedown demands – and impressively, none of them involve Adam Sandler

Nor any requests to remove the works of Rob Schneider, Kevin James, or Ashton Kutcher, sadly

Personal Tech07 Feb 2020 | 37

China and Russia join to battle 'illegal internet content,' which means what you fear it does

Authoritarian regimes continue wrestling internet back into box

Networks09 Oct 2019 | 45

What? No way. Apple? Censoring iOS 13 to appease China? Gosh. How shocking. Who'd have thought it?

iGiant declines to Taiwan on for Hong Kong and Macau

Personal Tech07 Oct 2019 | 40

We are shocked to learn oppressive authoritarian surveillance state China injects spyware into foreigners' smartphones

Border cops accused of loading tourists' mobiles up with snoop app in Muslim area

Security02 Jul 2019 | 80

Having a bad day? Be thankful you don't work at a Russian ISP: Kremlin signs off Pootynet restrictions

In Russia the internet regulates you

Legal03 May 2019 | 42

Russian parliament waves through powers for internet iron curtain

High potential of cutting off the nose to spite the face

Networks12 Apr 2019 | 26

French internet cops issue terrorist takedown for… Grateful Dead recordings?

Internet Archive perplexed and annoyed over idiotic demands

Legal12 Apr 2019 | 100

Who pressured WHO to put gaming on a par with drug addiction to help silence political dissent? Oh hi there, China

Devs point finger at Beijing for framing pastime as an illness – and how the West could follow

Personal Tech21 Mar 2019 | 29

Ivan to be left alone: Russia preps to turn its internet into an intranet if West opens cyber-fire

In Putin's Russia, internet logs off from you

Networks12 Feb 2019 | 56

Iron Mike Pence blasts Google for its censor-happy Dragonfly Chinese search engine

Wait until the Veep finds out what Apple is doing for them

Legal04 Oct 2018 | 29

Did you know? The word 'Taiwan' would crash iOS thanks to a buggy filter for the Chinese govt

蒂姆，我们告诉你谨慎！

Personal Tech10 Jul 2018 | 31

Silk road adviser caught, Kaspersky sues Dutch paper, and Vietnam's tech clampdown

Roundup Also, Weight Watchers is light on security

Security16 Jun 2018 | 8

Google listens to New Zealand just long enough to ignore it

'We can't delete court cases, and you can't make us'

Legal23 May 2018 | 51

Apple tells app makers to strip VoIP toolkit from iOS software in China

CallKit code no longer welcome in Middle Kingdom

Software21 May 2018 | 7

Glibc 'abortion joke' diff tiff leaves Richard Stallman miffed

FSF firebrand rails against purged abort() docs 'satire'

Software09 May 2018 | 124

GoDaddy exiles altright.com after civil rights group complaint

Dust off your definitions of free speech and censorship in the digital age, people

On-Prem04 May 2018 | 74

AWS sends noise to Signal: You can't use our servers to beat censors

Moxie Marlinspike bemoans Bezos' bit barns joining Google in Domain Fronting ban

Security02 May 2018 | 27

When tyrants pull on their jackboots to stamp out free speech online, they reach for... er, a Canadian software biz?

Web scrubber accused of ignoring obligation to mitigate misuse of its code

Software25 Apr 2018 | 22

ProtonMail posts workaround for Turkish government block

Use VPN, DNS or Tor

Personal Tech15 Mar 2018 | 3

Iranians resist internet censorship amid deadly street protests

Tor usage skyrockets as citizens try to bypass blocks

Security02 Jan 2018 | 18

Time's up: Grace period for Germany's internet hate speech law ends

Twitter, Facebook boot off far-right politician over racist tweet

Legal02 Jan 2018 | 130

Kentucky lawmaker pushes smut filter law (update: maybe not)

Rep. Johnson shuns Kentucky sly clickin'

Personal Tech11 Dec 2017 | 54

Think the US is alone? 18 countries had their elections hacked last year

Less than a quarter of world has freeish internet communication

Security14 Nov 2017 | 46

Vlad the blockader: Russia's anti-VPN law comes into effect

All the news that's fit to read – as decided by President Putin

Security31 Oct 2017 | 77

Discover potholes in the information super-highway with this handy new tool (which itself just hit a roadblock)

Everything is broken

Networks24 Oct 2017 | 6

Twitter: Why we silenced Rose McGowan after she slammed alleged sex pest Harvey Weinstein

Analysis Woman stands up to powerful bully. What happened next will not shock you

Legal12 Oct 2017 | 129

Cost of Africa's internet shutdowns? $1m a day – quarter of a billion total

New report digs into economic damage caused by over-zealous governments

Legal02 Oct 2017 | 13

Mom, mom! Make China stopppp! US govt gripes about Beijing's internet censorship to WTO

Could 'significantly impair cross-border transfers of information'

Legal26 Sep 2017 | 23

Spanish govt slammed over bizarre Catalan .cat internet registry cop raid

Heavy-handed tactics during lead up to independence referendum

Legal23 Sep 2017 | 120

我的天啊! China gives Weibo users a week to use their real names

Nothing at all wrong with this

Personal Tech08 Sep 2017 | 29

China crackdown: VPN vendor gets prison

Nine months for letting punters bypass Great Firewall

Legal05 Sep 2017 | 18

Daily Stormer booted off internet again, this time by Namecheap

CEO says he's made 'right decision for the human race' but created 'an existential threat for our company'

Legal20 Aug 2017 | 74

Cloudflare: We dumped Daily Stormer not because they're Nazis but because they said we love Nazis

Hey, hey, It's cool, Matt, 'they're Nazis' is reason enough

Legal16 Aug 2017 | 102

A glimpse of life under President Zuckerberg? Facebook CEO's boffins censor awkward Q&A

Human cell study AMA on Reddit all cleaned up

Science15 Aug 2017 | 26

Assange offers job to sacked Google diversity manifestbro

Censorship is for losers!

Bootnotes08 Aug 2017 | 107

China crams spyware on phones in Muslim-majority province

On-the-spot checks by cops to ensure creepy mass surveillance tool is installed

Security24 Jul 2017 | 42

China censors drop the soap operas, sitcoms

Analysis That's the bad news. The good news is they've banned Bieber, too

Personal Tech21 Jul 2017 | 56

China's censorship cyber-missiles shoot down pics flying through WhatsApp, chat apps

Death of Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo reveals new powers

Security18 Jul 2017 | 28

Russia, China vow to kill off VPNs, Tor browser

New laws needed because today's censorship not good enough, apparently

Security11 Jul 2017 | 84

Google plans to scrub 'inflammatory' and terror vids from youTube

AI isn't good enough for the job, so more mods and Google ads will get into the grey areas

Legal19 Jun 2017 | 25

Just days after tech community abandons plans to punish internet shutdowns… Egypt goes censorship crazy

What do you need news for, anyway? 'It shouldn't be a problem' – NTRA official

Networks13 Jun 2017 | 13