After speculation that whistle blowing site wikileaks.org had fallen to pieces, it bounced back on Sunday releasing over 91,000 documents on the US military operations in Afghanistan and is being re-heralded as the future of investigative journalism and whistle blowing. This position though has brought the site into the line of fire once more from […]
In a recent update from Global Voices writer Gregory Asmolov and an article[RUS] from CNews, it appears that there has been a regional court ordered blockage of YouTube in a far eastern segment of Russia. In total, a Prosecutor for the city of Komsomolsk-na-Amure sought 5 websites to be blocked by court order on the […]
Just as Internet filtration proponents in Australia felt comforted as the the new Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, put her support behind Stephen Conroy’s proposed filtration plan, Internet freedom activists have taken temporary and cautious breath of relief as some of the plans have unraveled…….a little. The government recently decided to delay the proposed ISP content […]
