Showing posts with label social media censorship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social media censorship. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

War on the Internet: Meshnet activists Rebuilds the Net from Scratch

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In anticipation that the US government will require the surrendering of customer’s data, two small email providers including Lavabit, a Tex...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Central Banks Sees Bitcoins as Threat

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Anything that emerges from the markets that poses as a threat to the power of central authorities will be harassed via regulations. This se...
Saturday, December 15, 2012

War on Internet: Internet Freedom Prevails over UN Sponsored Regulations

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The United Nations via the International Telecommunication Union has failed in her mission to put a centralized legal kibosh on the interne...
Saturday, October 27, 2012

War on the Internet: China’s Censorship on New York Times’s Expose on Chinese Leader’s Wealth Fails

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The New York Times published an expose on the Chinese leadership which had been met by swift response and censorship by Chinese authorities...
Wednesday, October 03, 2012

The Information Age and the Philippine Cybercrime Law

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Amidst fiery protest by many Philippine cyberspace users, the newly enacted Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 RA 10175 took effect today (...
Friday, September 28, 2012

War on Internet: Despite Ban, Social Media Users in China Booms; Philippine Hackers Protests

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As I have been pointing out, the information age, which essentially represents the snowballing forces of decentralization, particularly glo...
Monday, June 18, 2012

War on Internet: Google Reports Increasing Government Requests for Censorship

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Governments of western economies has been breathing down the neck of Google to censor ‘political’ content on Google’s cyberspace. From TGD...
Friday, June 08, 2012

War on Internet: Google will warn Users of State Sponsored Attacks

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Hail Google. Google will warn their users of state sponsored privacy intrusions. From Foreign Policies the Cable UPDATE: A senior Sen...

War on Internet: Anonymous will do a Wikileaks this December

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The war on the internet continues. Despite a string of legal harassment suit waged against activists like Wikileaks, internet activism wil...
Friday, June 01, 2012

War on the Internet: 377 Words to use for Uncle Sam to Watch You

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Free speech undermines the power of centralized government. So governments will make any excuses to work on repressing free speech. One wa...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

How to Communicate on an Internet Blackout

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Should there be an internet blackout (for whatever reasons), here are some ways to reconnect. From Liberty News Online : Scenario: Yo...
Sunday, April 01, 2012

Signs of China’s Snowballing Political Crisis: Six Arrested over Coup Rumors

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China’s political sphere seems to be feeling the heat from the unraveling of the Keynesian policies From the Telegraph , (hat tip Bob Wenz...
Monday, March 26, 2012

Why Socialists Hate the Internet

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Writes Mary O’Grady at the Wall Street Journal , (bold emphasis mine) [hat tip Mark Perry] 'There's a reason the people in Cuba...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Web Wars: Pirate Bay to Use Hovering Server Drones

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The web is a frontier for the cat-and-mouse analogy signifying the constant struggle between politics and markets. I pointed out how socia...
Friday, March 02, 2012

How the Web Nurtures Underground Economies

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Through Anonymous Web Proxy Servers. From author Bill Rounds (howtovanish.com), [hat tip Charleston Voice] Communist Cuba is a great...
Saturday, January 28, 2012

Twitter Yields to Selective Censorship

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This is a sad development for social media: The popular Twitter has yielded to selective censorship From New York Daily News , Twitte...
Friday, January 20, 2012

Video: Salma Khan on How SOPA and PIPA May Kill the Internet

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Salman Khan of the famed free education based Khan Academy explains the draconian, insidious and totalitarian implications of the SOPA and ...
Thursday, January 19, 2012

Quote of the Day: The Internet is Not for the Government to Regulate

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From Cato’s Jim Harper The Internet is not the government’s to regulate. It is an agreement on a set of protocols —a language that comp...

Video: What's Wrong with Internet Censorship

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Cato's Julian Sanchez explains what is wrong with internet censorship From Cato : Internet censorship is not the answer to problems of p...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

War on the Internet: Freedom Wins Round One

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Writes Mac Slavo Amid significant pressure from tens of thousands of internet users and major web behemoths like Google, Facebook, and ...