The research group has found non-China registered accounts are subject to the same content surveillance as China-registered accounts and are used to build up the database WeChat for censorship. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Tag: censorship
Facebook, Google, Twitter spark mutiny over Pakistan censorship demands
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•The companies have joined forces in a threat to abandon the country entirely. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Citizen Lab: WeChat’s real-time censorship system uses hash indexes to filter content
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•The filtering systems also censor content that are not critical of the Chinese government. …read more Source:: Open Source S
UK to withdraw from online porn block, censorship crusade
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•Opinion: The irony is strong in enforcing ID verification laws when the government fails to implement its own legal checks. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Winnie The Pooh takes over Reddit due to Chinese investment, censorship fears
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•You will probably never see as many Winnie The Pooh memes in one place ever again. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Venezuela ramps up censorship with Tor ban
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•The anonymous browsing network gets blocked in the government’s latest threat to human rights. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Amazon’s AWS just kicked some censorship-evading apps to the curb
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•Domain fronting helps apps evade censorship, but hackers use it to obfuscate where their malware comes from. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Canada’s ruling on Google search results sparks censorship concerns
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•The ruling, requiring Google to de-index a company’s website globally, sets a dangerous precedent, some internet freedom advocates warn. …read more Source:: Open Source S