Tag Archives: Censorship
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...
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...
Twitter, yesterday, announced through its blog post that it will limit the content on the micro-blogging site according to specified countries’ freedom of expression – giving an ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country – while keeping it available in the rest of the world. The company states last year that its instance goal is to connect...