Posts Tagged ‘Censorship’
Danish ISP forced to block access to The Pirate Bay
Wow.
The Danish part of IFPI (who claims to be "representing the recording industry world wide") has forced the Danish-Norwegian internet ISP Tele2 to block the access to The Pirate Bay (article in Danish).
Other ISP's are expected to follow, since IFPI went to the Danish County Court, in Danish called "Fogedretten" and got their word for the blockade.
IFPI is very happy with the result, saying this shows ISP's that they have a certain responsibility in preventing their customers from being able to download pirated material. I personally think, that IFPI has a role to play here as well, instead of just going to the court everytime. Wouldn't it be possible to create a filter, that sorts the pirated stuff away?
IFPI has previously made sure that ISP's blocked access to Russian MP3 site AllOfMP3.
Just saw somewhere that Denmark, Turkey and China are the only countries block The Pirate Bay.So much for the free internet, I guess.
Related postsTags: Censorship, Denmark, File Sharing, ifpi, the pirate bay
Denmark is an "extensive surveillance society"
My friend Jeppe just showed me a report on "Leading surveillance societies in the EU and the World 2007", where Denmark, where I live, is listed under "extensive surveillance societies".
Read the report and judge for yourself. Quite a scary bit of reading, if you ask me…
Related postsTags: Censorship, Denmark, Internet, surveillance
Extend your way out of the Chinese government's grip on Flickr
As I've written earlier, the Chinese government is blocking access to Flickr — probably because of some pictures of the Tianmen Square being published onto Flickr.
However, help is on the way — if you're a Firefox user, that is.
According to CNET News you can get around the blockade using a Firefox extension. The extension is called "Access Flickr!" and is created by an Iranian man named Hamed Saber.
According to the article some Greasemonkey gymnastics can also do the trick.
I wonder what will happen next? Will China block access to the Mozilla and Firefox sites? I guess this just shows that you can't control the internet.
Related postsTags: Censorship, China, Flickr
China will most likely block out Flickr
The Chinese government who apparently stops at nothing in trying to keep the Chinese citizens from having any good use of the internet is now apparently disabling access to photo sharing site Flickr. The reason: Pictures from the massacre at the Tianmen Square has been published on Flickr.
This means that the German government should cut national access to Flickr, when they discovered these photos of a time and place in history much worse than Tianmen Square.
Read more:
USA Today: "Yahoo: Beijing likely blocking Flickr
Tags: Censorship, China, Flickr
Age matters when you Google in Korea
Google Korea plans to introduce an age-verification system to its search engine later this year that will restrict adult-themed searches to those 19 years of age and older, it said Thursday.
More at Infoworld: "Google Korea to censor search results"
Related postsTags: Censorship, Google, Search, Search engines, Searches, Searching
China closes down for WikiPedia
Nothing lasts forever, and according to CNN China's »easing of a ban on the popular online encyclopedia« WikiPedia is no exception. Too bad :(
Related postsTags: Censorship, China, Wikipedia
China opens up for WikiPedia
According to BBC News the Chinese government has just re-allowed the people of China to visit WikiPedia.org.
The news of the Chinese move seems to come from Reporters Without Borders.
I am very much against censoring what people may or may not see on the web, so this is kind of a big thing for me :-)
Related postsTags: Censorship, China, Wikipedia