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In 2005, Peter Mahnke, a resident of the English town of St. Margaret's, Middlesex, set up a community website . For the past seven years, he and a handful of local volunteers have been publishing regular updates about local events, parks, new businesses, weather, and train schedules.
The Rise of Europe's Private Internet Police
Richard Stallman : Une société des réseaux libérée | Libertés Numériques
« Les technologies de communication et des réseaux offrent les possibilités d’un nouveau monde de libertés. Mais elles permettent aussi la surveillance et le contrôle, dont les dictatures du passé ne pouvaient rêver.
LEAKED: UK copyright lobby holds closed-door meetings with gov't to discuss national Web-censorship regime - Boing Boing
By Cory Doctorow at 2:46 am Wednesday, Jun 22
Thailand Clampdown on Internet Traffic Worries Companies - WSJ.com
BANGKOK—Global companies are growing increasingly worried that Thailand's recent clampdown on Internet traffic might drag down the country's economic potential and make it more difficult to expand here. Internet monitoring laws introduced four years ago were designed to root out online fraud and boost e-commerce in this tropical Buddhist kingdom. But critics say the legislation is being used to police the Web for political content.
Fhimt.com | MEDIA SOCIAL CITOYEN FI TOUNES
Un fou a commis par deux fois au moins deux crimes atroces, tuants d’innocentes personnes, au gré de son humeur, incertaine, déséquilibrée, allant même jusqu’à s’attaquer au paroxysme de l’innocence, des enfants, et atteindre ainsi le paroxysme de l’horreur.
Telex is a new approach to circumventing Internet censorship that is intended to help citizens of repressive governments freely access online services and information.
Telex: Anticensorship in the Network Infrastructure
Google has already found itself at odds with some countries, such as China, over censorship
BBC News - Google chairman warns of censorship after Arab Spring
Middle Eastern Oppression, Made in Canada | The Mark
Governments fighting to stop the Arab Spring may be using Canadian software to censor the web. Authoritarian governments in the Middle East have been using software developed in Canada to block access to websites they find politically objectionable, says the head of an organization that studies human rights in the internet era.
Traffic – Google Transparency Report
Cet outil fournit des informations sur le trafic enregistré vers nos services à travers le monde.Government Requests – Google Transparency Report
Like other technology and communications companies, Google regularly receives requests from government agencies and courts around the world to remove content from our services and hand over user data.Index on Censorship
The election of Aung San Suu Kyi was another step in Burma’s advance to democracy. But journalists are aware that the small gains made by the media could be taken back. Tom Fawthrop reportsArtists have lots of problems. We get plagiarised, ripped off by publishers, savaged by critics, counterfeited — and we even get our works copied by "pirates" who give our stuff away for free online. But no matter how bad these problems get, they're a distant second to the gravest, most terrifying problem an artist can face: censorship.