Yahoo which were recently seen dropping from the case by Indian courts over the complaints saying that Internet companies are not taking responsibilities for user-posted content – adding today to this case against Microsoft too get dropped after Indian court has terminated the proceedings. In the same run both Google and Facebook will petition the court on May 3rd and...
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A clerical error carried out by the police resulted in around 8,000 websites, including Google and Facebook blocked, for several hours on the grounds of “containing” child pornography. The blackout also affected Tele Greenland users. Customers of the Siminn ISP who tried to access the affected pages were greeted with the following message: “The National High...
A new to add over the censoring the social media access, Tajikistan blocked local access to Facebook and two of the Russian-language sites that published an article which seems to be critical of its long-serving president. The shutdown was ordered by the state-run communications service. “This morning, we carried out the instruction of the communications service and...
According to Agency O Globo, the Attorney General of the Union (AGU) has filed a lawsuit in Federal Court of Goiás, a preliminary injunction to block suspension and Twitter profiles that warn drivers about the location and timing of traffic blitzes conducted in the state. The request was made by the attorney of the Union of Goiás (PU / GO), a unit of AGU in the state...
Twitter last week announced its new way of censoring the tweets on the country-by-country basis – the ability which reactively withhold content from users in a specific country despite keeping it available to the rest of the world. The Thailand’s Information and Communication Technology Ministry will work with the micro-blogging site to ensure that tweets in the country...