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12/12/12: Noh8er gets mysteriously suspended for a "violation" of twitter's terms of 'service', and upon achieving reversal (involving ticking two boxes with writing next to them.. Read More

On 27 October 2012, investigative journalist Kostas Vaxevanis published the Lagarde list of suspected tax-dodgers holding bank accounts in the HSBC branch in Geneva, Switzerland. This list was communicated to the Greek Ministry of Finance by the French authorities in .. Read More

On 24 September 2012 the administrator of the satirical Facebook page Geron Pastitsios was arrested on accusations of blasphemy (more here: http://news.radiobubble.gr/2012/09/is-there-freedom-of-speech-in-greece.html). This unleashed a torrent of angry and humoristic .. Read More

Komentar terhadap boikot Google dan Youtube karena tak mau menghapus video Innocence of Muslim. Kita tak mau Google dan Youtube jadi lembaga sensor swasta. Read More

After an announcement from the US Embassy to Australia, Amb Bleich failed to answer any of the tough questions posed.  Read More

UNESCO and the World Press Freedom Committee (WPFC) hosted a conference entitled "The Media World after WikiLeaks and News of the World" on 16 & 17 February 2012 at UNESCO HQ in .. Read More

What the Social InterWeb is saying about #SOPA Read More

@carwinb attended the Bradley Manning pre-trial today and took copious notes. She tweeted out from her notes, but Tweetdeck and Icerocket wouldn't show her tweets.  Read More

Al Jazeera reporter Melissa Chan details a mysterious series of events preventing her team from entering Xinjiang on assignment. Mechanical troubles are the nominal problem, but .. Read More

The announcement by the Greek Ministry of Justice that the wonderful "journalist" Paschos Mandravelis was appointed on the committee to discuss a bill to ban anonymity on the Int.. Read More

Yesterday was an eventful afternoon/evening in terms of legal developments in Greece. Minister of Justice M. Papaioannou proposed a bill to end anonymity on the internet, alleged.. Read More

Cairo ICT 2011 (25-28 May 2011) http://www.cairoict.com/  Read More

Earlier today Fang Binxing, one of the masterminds behind China's Great Firewall, became the target of a student attack at Wuhan University. A disgruntled viewer lobbed an egg and shoe at him in rapid succession. Immediately the censors sprang to work, and in the proc.. Read More

The Chinese government has limited search results for news from Egypt, prompting speculation about a democratic uprising spreading from the Middle East to Asia. Here is a compil.. Read More

Reactions on Twitter and elsewhere to the new edition of Huckleberry Finn which removes the "n-word" Read More

The best and most thoughtful Tweets surrounding the censorship of Mark Twain's classic novel. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNBMgmfaXxk Read More

The Wikileaks controversy sparks a debate about controversy on Twitter, the internet, and worldwide. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlzrNKN3rZI Read More