By Victor on Nov 13, 2008 in Anti-Free Speech Laws, Free speech, China's Internet cops, Google, China, Blogger, Censorship | 0 Comments
Guo Quan
Guo Quan was arrested yesterday, 13th November by the Chinese authorities, for inciting subversion. This stems from some of his blog posts where he exhorts the Chinese government to embrace democracy. He is currently being held at an Nanjing prison.
Gou had previously been arrested on 18th May when he was held for 10 days, […]
By Victor on Aug 15, 2008 in India, Corporate censorship, Anti-Free Speech Laws, Google, Threatened bloggers, Blogger, Censorship | 0 Comments
Google has been ordered to unmask the identity of an anonymous blogger in India in a defamation suit by a Gremach Infrastructure Equipment and Projects Ltd.
In their suit Gremach states that the blogger has been on a ‘hate campaign’ and wants Google to unmask the blogger going by the name, ‘Toxic Writer’. Google in turn […]
By Curt on Nov 28, 2007 in Israel, Google | 1 Comment
Duncan at Tech Crunch reports (via Globes Online) that Google voluntarily gave up IP information on a user to plaintiffs in a defamation case.
The anonymous blogger made accusations of impropriety against members of a city council in the town of Shaarei Tikva, who were running for re-election.
The settlement stipulates that 72 hours before a […]
By Curt on Nov 7, 2007 in Orkut, India, Google | 2 Comments
Nart Villeneuve reports that Google handed over information on one of the users of its Orkut social network to Indian police.
After a request from Indian Law Enforcement, Google handed over the IP address of an Orkut user. The Indian Law Enforcement asked the ISP Airtel for information about the “owner” of that IP and […]
By Curt on Oct 17, 2007 in Google, Blogger | 0 Comments
Google has closed down the blog of Serbian neo-Nazi, Novosadjanin Goran Davidovi?. I just checked it and the message said, “This blog is in violation of Blogger’s Terms of Service and is open to authors only”. Blogger/Google is a private company, but the tendency to cinch up on weird thought is troubling. It certainly doesn’t […]
By Curt on Sep 18, 2007 in Google, YouTube, Censorship, Turkey | 1 Comment
Turkey’s blocked the Google-owned video-sharing site YouTube again, according to Agence France Presse (via MEY).
The decision followed a complaint by a resident in the eastern city of Sivas that the site hosted videos containing insults against Turkey’s founding father Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, President Abdullah Gul, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the army, the Anatolia […]
By Curt on Sep 17, 2007 in Filtering, Google, Iran | 0 Comments
Calling it an “error” the briefly-blocked search engine Google is usable again in Iran. One of the problems with filtering software, according to ONI reports, is the difficulty, perhaps impossibility, in not throwing out the baby with the bathwater. The filtering controls are ham-fisted and it’s difficult, if not impossible, to surgically ban say pornography […]
By Curt on Sep 10, 2007 in Social networking, Laxman Kailas, Orkut, India, Google, Imprisoned bloggers | 2 Comments
Laxman Kailas, a user of the Google-owned social networking site Orkut, was arrested in the western Indian city of Pune on September 2. According to The Times of India:
A Bangalore-based computer engineer has landed in the police net after he allegedly uploaded a blasphemous matter about Maratha warrior king Chhatrapati Shivaji on the social networking […]
By Curt on Aug 30, 2007 in Google, YouTube, Thailand | 6 Comments
Oh, joy. YouTube is no longer blocked in Thailand (according to Bankok’s The Nation newspaper, via Mashable).
All YouTube had to do was agree to sacrifice any principals it might have had, or might in the future wish to tout, regarding free speech.
This follows an agreement between the Ministry of ICT and YouTube that […]
