Russia Moves To Censor Google, Facebook, Twitter
Under Vladimir Putin Russia has taken many steps backward toward its repressive, Cold War past. It’s apparently taking another by...
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New California Law Says Businesses Can’t Stop Consumers From Posting Online Reviews
So-called “non-disparagement clauses,” buried in terms and conditions or consumer purchase agreements, would probably be voided under the...
Telegraph “Forgets” Its Own Stories Documenting Google “Right To Be Forgotten̶
The Daily Telegraph’s recent campaign to document all its stories that have been removed from Google under the EU’s Right To Be Forgotten...
Tiananmen Date Over, Chinese Unblock Access To Google
had been totally blocked for roughly a month in the run up to the anniversary. The Chinese government had denied it was interfering with...
How The EU Censors Google & Search Engines Just Like China
When it comes to censorship, the European Union generally isn’t one of the political entities that immediately comes to mind. But it...
Thanks To “Right To Be Forgotten,” Google Now Censors The Press In The EU
The EU’s Right To Be Forgotten removals have been happening for about a week on Google, and now news publications are discovering the...
Google’s Right To Be Forgotten Form Gets 12,000 Submissions On First Day
Google’s new Right To Be Forgotten from has been up for just about a day now, and the company says that over 12,000 submissions have been...
10 People Who Want To Be Forgotten By Google, From An Attempted Murderer To A Cyberstalker
Who wants things removed from Google under the newly declared “right to be forgotten” in the European Union? A convicted cyberstalker, an...
Twitter’s Latest Transparency Report Details Increases In DMCA, Removal & Information Req
latest transparency report shows that the company is seeing double-digit increases in data-related requests so far this year from...
Europe: Google Wins “Censorship” Battle, Slammed On Antitrust Proposals
On Monday, an advisory (non-binding) opinion from Niilo Jaeaeskinen of the EU Court of Justice found that Google cannot (or should not)...
Twitter Loses French Appeal To Avoid Disclosing Hate-Speaker Names
Anti-Semitism is currently on the rise throughout Europe. The Union of Jewish French Students (UEJF) and other human-rights groups sought...
UK Court Finds Tweet Libelous Because Of Implied Meaning
In what appears to be the first case of its kind, a UK court has found that the implications of a tweet (against the backdrop of its...
Google: Government Requests To Remove Content Spiked In First Half Of 2012
Google announced that the number of content removal requests submitted by governments have spiked in the first half of the year. From...
Twitter Will Hide, Not Remove, Tweets That Violate Copyrights
GigaOm first reported the news on Sunday, following a tweet from Jeremy Kessel, Twitter’s manager of legal policy. Kessel linked to the...
Twitter Takes First Country-Specific Censorship Action, Against Hate Group In Germany
block Twitter accounts and tweets by a country-by-country basis, in case it needed to respond to legal requests. Nine months later, the...
Twitter Now Able To Censor Tweets, If Required By Law, On A Country-By-Country Basis
Twitter has shared the news on its blog, saying: As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different...
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