Fahad HSep 26, 20142 min readRussia Moves To Censor Google, Facebook, TwitterUnder Vladimir Putin Russia has taken many steps backward toward its repressive, Cold War past. It’s apparently taking another by...
Fahad HSep 11, 20143 min readNew California Law Says Businesses Can’t Stop Consumers From Posting Online ReviewsSo-called “non-disparagement clauses,” buried in terms and conditions or consumer purchase agreements, would probably be voided under the...
Fahad HAug 15, 20142 min readTelegraph “Forgets” Its Own Stories Documenting Google “Right To Be Forgotten̶The Daily Telegraph’s recent campaign to document all its stories that have been removed from Google under the EU’s Right To Be Forgotten...
Fahad HJul 10, 20141 min readTiananmen Date Over, Chinese Unblock Access To Googlehad been totally blocked for roughly a month in the run up to the anniversary. The Chinese government had denied it was interfering with...
Fahad HJul 10, 20142 min readHow The EU Censors Google & Search Engines Just Like ChinaWhen it comes to censorship, the European Union generally isn’t one of the political entities that immediately comes to mind. But it...
Fahad HJul 2, 20149 min readThanks To “Right To Be Forgotten,” Google Now Censors The Press In The EUThe EU’s Right To Be Forgotten removals have been happening for about a week on Google, and now news publications are discovering the...
Fahad HMay 30, 20141 min readGoogle’s Right To Be Forgotten Form Gets 12,000 Submissions On First DayGoogle’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...
Fahad HMay 16, 20142 min read10 People Who Want To Be Forgotten By Google, From An Attempted Murderer To A CyberstalkerWho wants things removed from Google under the newly declared “right to be forgotten” in the European Union? A convicted cyberstalker, an...
Fahad HJul 31, 20131 min readTwitter’s Latest Transparency Report Details Increases In DMCA, Removal & Information Reqlatest transparency report shows that the company is seeing double-digit increases in data-related requests so far this year from...
Fahad HJun 26, 20132 min readEurope: Google Wins “Censorship” Battle, Slammed On Antitrust ProposalsOn Monday, an advisory (non-binding) opinion from Niilo Jaeaeskinen of the EU Court of Justice found that Google cannot (or should not)...
Fahad HJun 13, 20132 min readTwitter Loses French Appeal To Avoid Disclosing Hate-Speaker NamesAnti-Semitism is currently on the rise throughout Europe. The Union of Jewish French Students (UEJF) and other human-rights groups sought...
Fahad HJun 4, 20133 min readUK Court Finds Tweet Libelous Because Of Implied MeaningIn 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...
Fahad HNov 13, 20121 min readGoogle: Government Requests To Remove Content Spiked In First Half Of 2012Google announced that the number of content removal requests submitted by governments have spiked in the first half of the year. From...
Fahad HNov 5, 20121 min readTwitter Will Hide, Not Remove, Tweets That Violate CopyrightsGigaOm first reported the news on Sunday, following a tweet from Jeremy Kessel, Twitter’s manager of legal policy. Kessel linked to the...
Fahad HOct 18, 20123 min readTwitter Takes First Country-Specific Censorship Action, Against Hate Group In Germanyblock Twitter accounts and tweets by a country-by-country basis, in case it needed to respond to legal requests. Nine months later, the...
Fahad HJan 26, 20124 min readTwitter Now Able To Censor Tweets, If Required By Law, On A Country-By-Country BasisTwitter has shared the news on its blog, saying: As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different...
