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Middle Eastern countries censoring Internet

donal brown June 28, 2010

Last week Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkey acted to block more content from the Internet. Afghanistan is installing filters on the categories of alcohol, dating and social networking, gambling and pornography. -db Electronic Frontier Foundation Opinion June 26, 2010 By Shari Steele Yet another country has decided to shut down key parts the Internet. Kathleen Reen at Internews reports that, as of this past Thursday, the Afghan Ministry of Communications mandated that all Internet Service Providers

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Government agency launches website to help public monitor oil spill

donal brown June 15, 2010

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has launched GeoPlatform.gov, a data-rich website to enable the pubic to track the spread of the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico and find out other crucial information. -db NextGov June 14, 2010 By Bob Brewin The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration launched a slick and data-rich website on Monday that the public can use to monitor the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. GeoPlatform.gov provides visitors with the same

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Online Hitler parodies suffer censorship

donal brown April 22, 2010

Constantin Film has used the Content I.D. filter provided by YouTube to remove the Hitler parodies regardless of whether they constitute “fair use.” -db Electronic Frontier Foundation Commentary April 20, 2010 By Corynne McSherry One the most enduring (and consistently entertaining) Internet memes of the past few years has been remixes of the bunker scene from the German film, The Downfall: Hitler and the End of the Third Reich (aka Der Untergang). EFF Boardmember Brad

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Online free speech: Damages a possibility in Universal Musics takedown of dancing baby

donal brown March 1, 2010

A federal judge ruled that a mother could get compensation from Universal Music for forcing YouTube to remove a 29-second video of her toddler son dancing to a Prince song. -db The Recorder March 1, 2010 By Zusha Elinson Universal Music might have to pay for pulling video of a dancing baby off YouTube. U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel ruled late Thursday that Stephanie Lenz can get some limited recompense from the music label for

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Italian court deals setback to Google and internet freedom

donal brown February 26, 2010

Three Google executives were convicted of violating Italy’s privacy laws and responsible for posts by third parties, a blow to world internet freedom and particularly destructive to Italy’s participation in e-commerce. -db The New York Times February 25, 2010 By Rachel Donadio ROME — Three Google executives were convicted of violating Italian privacy laws on Wednesday, the first case to hold the company’s executives criminally responsible for the content posted on its system. The verdict,

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