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China, Biggest Victim of Cybercrime, Champions "Community of Common Destiny" in Cyberspace
Dec 17, 2015As a victim of cybercrime in recent years, China chooses not to suffer in silence, but actively fight cybercrime and help govern the cyber community together with the rest of the world. As host of the Second World Internet Conference ...
Tags: Cyberspace, cybercrime, e-business
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Web Content Filtering Company Netsweeper Has Supplied Its Products to Pakistan
Jun 20, 2013Web content filtering company Netsweeper has supplied its products to Pakistan, even as some top IT companies have refused to supply gear for a controversial filtering project, a Canadian research group has disclosed. The new report ...
Tags: Netsweeper, Internet Content, Pakistan
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Lovers of Google Reader Vented Anger to Pull on RSS Service and Keep It Alive
Mar 18, 2013Lovers of the soon-to-be-defunct Google Reader have vented anger over the decision to pull the plug on the RSS service and are petitioning to keep it alive. A "Keep Google Reader Running" petition at change.org had racked up more than ...
Tags: Google Reader, RSS service, Google
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EU Project Has Become The Subject of Online Ridicule Following a Recommendation
Feb 5, 2013The European Union's Clean IT Project has become the subject of online ridicule following a recommendation in its latest report that a "Report this site for terrorism" button should be integrated into every web browser. The report, which ...
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Swartz Was an Extraordinary Hacker and Activist Wrote in a Tribute
Jan 14, 2013Aaron Swartz, 26, hanged himself in his flat weeks before he was to go on trial on accusations that he stole millions of articles from an electronic archive to make them freely available. If convicted he faced decades in prison and a ...
Tags: electronic archive, Aaron Swartz, Electronic Frontier Foundation, hacker
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The U.S Ordered Sanctions Against Iran's Reza Taghipour
Jan 4, 2013The U.S. on Thursday said it ordered sanctions against Iran's Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Reza Taghipour, and other entities and persons responsible for engaging in censorship in their country. Taghipour is ...
Tags: USA, Iran, sanctions, Internet censorship
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Google Confirmed a Dropoff in Traffic to Its Sites in China
Dec 31, 2012Computerworld - Google confirmed a dropoff in traffic to its sites in China on Friday, echoing an online report that the company's services are being blocked there. All Google services are inaccessible in China, according to the Google ...
Tags: Google Services, China, Communist Party Congress, Bloomberg News site
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Internet Censorship Law Is Voted by Russia's Parliament
Dec 26, 2012Russia's lower house of parliament has voted in favour of a law to give the government the power to shut down internet sites without trial. If offending websites cannot be shut down, the law allows authorities to force internet service ...
Tags: Russia's Parliament, Internet Censorship Law, internet sites
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The Russian Version of Wikipedia Went Black to Protest a Proposed Law
Dec 26, 2012IDG News Service - The Russian version of Wikipedia went black on Tuesday to protest a proposed law that could become the basis for Internet censorship. Wikipedia's protest is backed by other large Russian online businesses such as the ...
Tags: Internet censorship, electronic curtain, firewall, Wikipedia
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Google Chairman Eric Schmidt Bluntly Predicted The Fall of The Great Firewall of China
Dec 25, 2012After carefully working with China for the past two years, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt bluntly predicted the fall of the Great Firewall of China. "I believe that ultimately censorship fails," Schmidt said in an interview last week with ...
Tags: Google, Censorship, China, interview, Schmidt
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The Nation's IT Industry Believes Has High Potential to Lead to Internet Censorship
Dec 21, 2012The upper house of the Russian Parliament passed a bill on Wednesday that the nation's IT industry believes has high potential to lead to Internet censorship. The bill, including amendments to several laws, was adopted by the upper house ...
Tags: upper house, Russian Parliament, bill, IT industry
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GreatFire.org : China Has Blocking Access to Google
Dec 20, 2012China has blocking access to Google in what’s likely a move to squelch any controversial content on the nation’s Internet as its government prepares to change leadership. The blocking was reported by GreatFire.org, which ...
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A Telecom Company Based in China Become The Primary Means of Internet Access for People
Dec 19, 2012In a somewhat ironic turn of events, a telecom company based in China, a country famous for Internet censorship, has become the primary means of Internet access for people looking to get information out of war-torn Syria. An analysis of ...
Tags: Chinese Company, Syria, Internet, telecom company
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China Has Started Blocking Slideshare
Dec 19, 2012China has started blocking SlideShare, a document sharing service recently acquired by LinkedIn, making the site inaccessible to users in the country. "It appears that Internet users in China are not currently able to access SlideShare. ...
Tags: China, blocking SlideShare, LinkedIn, site inaccessible
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U.S. Ordered Sanctions Against Iran's Minister of Communication and Information Technology
Dec 19, 2012The U.S. on Thursday said it ordered sanctions against Iran's Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Reza Taghipour, and other entities and persons responsible for engaging in censorship in their country. Taghipour is ...
Tags: censorship, highlightedpost, iran, u.s.