Australia enacted a world-first social media ban Dec. 10, blocking kids under 16 from social media, sparking censorship fears ...

The struggle against online censorship continued in 2024, as over half the world's population experienced internet restrictions. Authoritarian governments are increasingly turning to censorship to ...

On July 22, the State Duma (the lower house of the Russian parliament) passed (306 votes to 67) in its third reading a law imposing fines for searching the internet for what the Kremlin classifies as ...

(TNS) — Google is launching new anti-censorship technology created in response to actions by Iran’s government during the 2022 protests there, hoping that it will increase access for internet users ...

Government Internet censorship is a permanent fact of life in some countries, but there are many more countries that impose Internet blocks in response to specific events. A new report says that ...

In Bangladesh, under the cover of Internet and mobile censorship, the government has deployed the military and murdered protestors. Though a court has since scaled back the quota system that first ...

Canny kids are borrowing adult faces to get around the age checks now required to access popular websites in the U.K., but there's an easier (if more expensive) method: just use a virtual private ...

Justice Clarence Thomas has argued against Big Tech censorship saying these companies should have to serve all customers, just like phone companies, utilities and public accommodations. AP Never ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Last week we learned that Egypt only has four major ISPs, making it relatively easy for the government to shut ...

The massive protests in Iran are powered by access to Facebook, Twitter and other Internet services even though the Iranian government has blocked access to them from inside Iran. How are the Iranians ...

Would websites like Google, Facebook and Twitter go dark to protest? Jan. 9, 2012 — -- The first item currently on the U.S. Senate's agenda for 2012 pits Hollywood against Silicon Valley. It is a ...