Lithuania tells its citizens to throw Xiaomi mobile devices in the bin
Updated Baltic state's cyber security centre uncovers remote censorship blocklist function in Mi 10T handset
22 Sep 2021
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Apple, Google yank opposition voting strategy app from Russian software stores
Oh, sorry, we thought you wanted us to obey the law?! – Silicon Valley
18 Sep 2021
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
08 Jun 2021
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
04 Jun 2021
Cloudflare stops offering to block LGBTQ webpages
Like, you wouldn't filter out pages by Black people, right?
21 May 2021
Russia botches Twitter throttling, cripples anything with t-dot-co in the name – including Reddit, Microsoft
See, regular expressions are hard
10 Mar 2021
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
26 Feb 2021
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
18 Feb 2021
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
12 Feb 2021
.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
23 Sep 2020
Pakistan demands TikTok and YouTube block 'vulgar' content
Calls for more moderation to stop video nasties reaching local eyeballs
01 Sep 2020
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'
24 Jun 2020
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
05 Jun 2020
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
22 Apr 2020
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
01 Apr 2020
Super-leaker Snowden punts free PDF* of tell-all NSA book with censored parts about China restored, underlined
* In Simplified Chinese
10 Feb 2020
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
07 Feb 2020
China and Russia join to battle 'illegal internet content,' which means what you fear it does
Authoritarian regimes continue wrestling internet back into box
09 Oct 2019
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