Copyright bill revives Internet 'death penalty' Hollywood's lobbyists have launched a bold new anti-piracy offensive in Washington that will face strong opposition from Internet companies and users who worry it goes too far and jeopardizes free speech rights.
A dozen members of the U.S. House of Representatives today announced they've jointly introduced a new bill intended to make allegedly copyright-infringing Web sites, sometimes called "rogue" Web sites, virtually disappear from the Internet. Casting.pdf. Don't censor the web. A new approach to China. Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis.
In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google. However, it soon became clear that what at first appeared to be solely a security incident--albeit a significant one--was something quite different. First, this attack was not just on Google. As part of our investigation we have discovered that at least twenty other large companies from a wide range of businesses--including the Internet, finance, technology, media and chemical sectors--have been similarly targeted.
We are currently in the process of notifying those companies, and we are also working with the relevant U.S. authorities. Second, we have evidence to suggest that a primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. Google, China censorship standoff ends - Jul. 9, 2010. Google's stock price has dropped about 18% since March 22, when it stopped censoring search services on google.cn, its Chinese search site.By Aaron Smith, CNNMoney.com staff writerJuly 9, 2010: 11:28 AM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Google said Friday that it has renewed its license with the Chinese government to continue operating in that country, ending a standoff over censorship.
"We are very pleased that the government has renewed our [Internet content provider] license and we look forward to continuing to provide Web search and local products to our users in China," said Google on its blog. Google did not make any concessions regarding censorship, Tokyo-based Google spokeswoman Jessica Powell said. "I don't think we gave anything up," she said. "We asked the government to renew our license to make some products that don't require any censorship.
Google Defies Korean Censorship Law - DemocracyKorea.org. Last July, I reported how YouTube, a subsidiary of Google, submitted to pressures from the the South Korean government in defiance of Google's own policies.
10 Most Censored Countries - Reports. New York, May 2, 2006--North Koreans live in the most censored country in the world, a new analysis by the Committee to Protect Journalists has found.The world's deepest information void, communist North Korea has no independent journalists, and all radio and television receivers sold in the country are locked to government-specified frequencies.
Burma, Turkmenistan, Equatorial Guinea, and Libya round out the top five nations on CPJ's list of the "10 Most Censored Countries. " In issuing its report to mark World Press Freedom Day on May 3, CPJ called state-sponsored censorship one of the most urgent threats facing journalists worldwide. CPJ studied press freedom conditions in dozens of countries around the world to assess the access people have to independent information and the methods leaders use to stifle the news.
CPJ regional staff used their extensive knowledge of local press conditions and applied a rigorous set of criteria to determine the rankings of the most censored list. Battling Internet Censorship Must Evolve, Study Says. The Controversial Cartoons of Pi San - Video Feature. Internet Censorship in China - Breaking World Internet Censorship News. Chinese Censors Have Kept Their Hands Off 'House of Cards' By AMY QIN and SHANSHAN WANG The absence of censorship for the Chinese broadcast of the series is somewhat surprising, and it may indicate a more relaxed approach toward the newer medium of online television show imports.
February 20, 2014, Thursday Chinese Ask Kerry to Help Tear Down a Firewall By MICHAEL R. Meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry, a group of Chinese bloggers appealed to the United States to take up the cause of Internet freedom. February 16, 2014, Sunday The Censorship Pendulum By YU HUA People like to hear voices critical of the government, so social media companies can’t silence them entirely. February 5, 2014, Wednesday Chinese Web Outage Blamed on Censorship Glitch By AMY QIN Chinese authorities suggested the massive disruption was the work of hackers.
January 22, 2014, Wednesday Big Web Crash in China: Experts Suspect Great Firewall By NICOLE PERLROTH Big Web Crash in China: Experts Suspect Great Firewall U.S. Art Brodsky: PIPA And SOPA Were Stopped, But the Web Hasn't Won. Here is the first sentence from a news story about what's going on in Washington: "California's two most prominent and powerful industries -- Silicon Valley and Hollywood -- are at war in Washington.
" That sounds about right, given the recent turn of events over the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), both of which are now more than likely gone from the legislative calendar for this year.