| Date / Time |
Story |
| Sunday April 22, 2018 @01:52AM |
NYT: Lynchings Around the World are Linked To Facebook Posts |
| Wednesday April 18, 2018 @07:38PM |
Google Is Shuttering Domain Fronting, Creating a Big Problem For Anti-Censorship Tools |
| Thursday March 29, 2018 @12:41PM |
Amazon is Burying Sexy Books, Sending Erotic Novel Authors to the 'No-Rank Dungeon' |
| Saturday March 24, 2018 @02:06AM |
Craigslist Personals, Some Subreddits Disappear After FOSTA Passage |
| Friday March 16, 2018 @08:13AM |
EU Wants To Require Platforms To Filter Uploaded Content (Including Code) |
| Thursday March 15, 2018 @01:48PM |
Encrypted Email Service ProtonMail is Being Blocked in Turkey |
| Wednesday March 07, 2018 @05:47AM |
Sri Lanka Blocks Facebook, Instagram To Prevent Spread of Hate Speech |
| Monday March 05, 2018 @07:05PM |
Rhode Island Bill Would Impose Fee For Accessing Online Porn |
| Sunday March 04, 2018 @05:20AM |
EU Warns Tech Giants To Remove Terror Content in 1 Hour -- or Else |
| Thursday March 01, 2018 @04:43AM |
YouTube's New Moderators Mistakenly Pull Right-Wing Channels |
| Wednesday February 28, 2018 @11:44AM |
China Bans Letter N From Internet as Xi Jinping Extends Grip on Power |
| Tuesday February 27, 2018 @08:54PM |
China Censors Social Media Responses To Proposal To Abolish Presidential Terms |
| Saturday February 17, 2018 @03:13PM |
FreeBSD's New Code of Conduct |
| Monday February 12, 2018 @03:53PM |
YouTube Will Remove Ads, Downgrade Discoverability of Channels Posting Offensive Videos |
| Wednesday February 07, 2018 @06:03PM |
Reddit Bans 'Deepfakes' AI Porn Communities |
| Tuesday January 30, 2018 @05:39PM |
Facebook Users Cry 'Censorship' After Being Told Which Russian Troll Pages They Liked |
| Saturday January 27, 2018 @09:51PM |
A Single Line of Computer Code Put Thousands of Innocent Turks in Jail |
| Saturday January 20, 2018 @11:41AM |
Twitter Says It Exposed Nearly 700,000 People To Russian Propaganda During Election |
| Sunday January 14, 2018 @06:10PM |
How Millions of Iranians Are Evading Internet Censors |
| Friday January 05, 2018 @12:16PM |
France's President Macron Wants To Block Websites During Elections To Fight 'Fake News' |
| Tuesday January 02, 2018 @05:43PM |
US Calls On Iran To Unblock Social Media Sites Amid Protests |
| Tuesday January 02, 2018 @01:43PM |
Toutiao, One of China's Most Popular News Apps, is Discovering the Risks Involved in Giving People Exactly What They Want Online |
| Monday January 01, 2018 @04:25PM |
Germany Starts Enforcing Hate Speech Law |
| Sunday December 31, 2017 @10:22PM |
Congo Shuts Down Internet Services 'Indefinitely' |
| Saturday December 30, 2017 @10:20PM |
Iran Cuts Internet Access and Threatens Telegram Following Mass Protests |
| Friday December 29, 2017 @05:47PM |
Facebook's Uneven Enforcement of Hate Speech Rules Allows Vile Posts To Stay Up |
| Wednesday December 27, 2017 @12:43PM |
Vietnam Deploys 10,000 Cyber Warriors to Fight 'Wrongful Views' |
| Monday December 25, 2017 @09:22PM |
China Closes More Than 13,000 Websites in Past Three Years |
| Friday December 22, 2017 @03:24PM |
Man in China Sentenced To Five Years' Jail For Running VPN |
| Friday December 22, 2017 @01:40AM |
How Facebook's Political Unit Enables the Dark Art of Digital Propaganda |
| Monday December 18, 2017 @05:54PM |
CDC Director Says No Words Are Actually Banned At the CDC |
| Monday December 18, 2017 @08:09AM |
Trump Administration Prohibits CDC Policy Analysts From Using the Words 'Science-Based' |
| Saturday December 09, 2017 @01:14AM |
Twitter Says It Accidentally Banned A Bunch Of Accounts |
| Tuesday December 05, 2017 @11:51AM |
YouTube To Hire More Than 10,000 Content Moderators on Staff Next Year To Stop Its Child Exploitation Problem |
| Monday December 04, 2017 @07:18PM |
Cloudflare's CEO Has a Plan To Never Censor Hate Speech Again |
| Monday December 04, 2017 @02:39PM |
Apple, Google CEOs Bring Star Power as China Promotes Censorship |
| Friday November 24, 2017 @05:57PM |
Pornhub Owner May Become the UK's Gatekeeper of Online Porn |
| Tuesday November 21, 2017 @01:50PM |
Hitler Quote Controversy In the BSD Community |
| Tuesday November 21, 2017 @01:38PM |
Hitler Quote Controversy in the BSD Community |
| Tuesday November 21, 2017 @10:46AM |
Skype Vanishes From App Stores in China |
| Monday November 20, 2017 @07:20PM |
Eric Schmidt Says Google News Will 'Engineer' Russian Propaganda Out of the Feed |
| Thursday November 16, 2017 @04:56PM |
New EU Consumer Protection Law Contains a Vague Website Blocking Clause |
| Thursday November 16, 2017 @11:13AM |
China Cyber Watchdog Rejects Censorship Critics, Says Internet Must Be 'Orderly' |
| Wednesday November 15, 2017 @11:34PM |
Twitter Bans, Removes Verified Status of White Supremacists |
| Monday November 06, 2017 @12:01PM |
Afghanistan Clarifies It Will Not Block WhatsApp, Telegram |
| Friday November 03, 2017 @12:39PM |
Twitter Employee Blamed For Deleting President Donald Trump's Account |
| Tuesday October 31, 2017 @07:21PM |
Russia's Anti-VPN Law Goes Into Effect |
| Friday October 27, 2017 @11:30PM |
YouTube Is Fighting the 'Adpocalypse' With a Less Trigger-Happy Flagging System |
| Friday October 27, 2017 @04:07PM |
The New York Times Launches Tor Onion Service To Overcome Censorship, Ensure Privacy |
| Monday October 23, 2017 @06:30PM |
Twitter Plans To End Revenge Porn Next Week, Hate Speech In Two |
| Saturday October 21, 2017 @03:12PM |
YouTube Suspends Account of Popular Chinese Dissident |
| Sunday October 08, 2017 @07:48PM |
Ask Slashdot: Is Deliberately Misleading People On the Internet Free Speech? |
| Sunday October 08, 2017 @04:02AM |
YouTube Alters Algorithm To Promote News, Penalize Vegas Shooting Conspiracy Theories |
| Thursday September 28, 2017 @11:10AM |
Homeland Security Plans To Collect Immigrants' Social Media Information |
| Thursday September 28, 2017 @11:10AM |
Bell Canada Wants Pirate Websites Blocked For Canadians |
| Monday September 25, 2017 @04:07PM |
China Blocks WhatsApp |
| Sunday September 24, 2017 @09:36PM |
'Banned Books Week' Recognizes 2016's Most-Censored Books (and Comic Books) |
| Saturday September 23, 2017 @06:22PM |
Spain's Crackdown on Catalonia Includes Internet Censorship |
| Wednesday September 13, 2017 @03:46PM |
EU Set To Demand Internet Firms Act Faster To Remove Illegal Content |
| Friday September 01, 2017 @10:31PM |
Police Allegedly Arrest UK News Photographer For Standing In A Field |
| Tuesday August 29, 2017 @11:13PM |
Is Slashdot Blocked In Parts Of India? |
| Sunday August 27, 2017 @09:28PM |
China Orders Internet Comments Linked To Real Identities |
| Sunday August 20, 2017 @06:22PM |
50,000 Users Test New Anti-Censorship Tool TapDance |
| Thursday August 10, 2017 @04:27PM |
China's VPN Developers Face Crackdown |
| Tuesday August 08, 2017 @12:30PM |
Indian ISPs Appear To Be Blocking Access To Internet Archive |
| Saturday August 05, 2017 @08:51PM |
Syrian Open Source Developer Bassel Khartabil Believed Executed |
| Friday August 04, 2017 @10:42AM |
Chinese Chatbots Apparently Re-educated After Political Faux Pas |
| Friday August 04, 2017 @12:04AM |
Facebook Fights Fake News With Links To Other Angles |
| Thursday August 03, 2017 @10:14AM |
Joining Apple, Amazon's China Cloud Service Bows To Censors |
| Thursday August 03, 2017 @10:04AM |
China Is Perfecting a New Method For Suppressing Dissent On the Internet |
| Sunday July 30, 2017 @04:24PM |
Apple Pulls Anti-Censorship Apps from China's App Store |
| Tuesday July 18, 2017 @12:38PM |
China's Censors Can Now Erase Images Mid-Transmission |
| Sunday July 16, 2017 @05:32PM |
Free Speech vs Billionaires: Netflix Streams A New Documentary About The Gawker Verdict |
| Monday July 10, 2017 @12:40PM |
China Tells Carriers To Block Access to Personal VPNs By February |
| Friday June 23, 2017 @10:42AM |
Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction, not Engaged Argument |
| Thursday June 15, 2017 @04:09PM |
Japan Passes Controversial 'Anti-Conspiracy' Bill |
| Monday June 05, 2017 @08:03AM |
Can Twitter Survive By Becoming A User-Owned Co-Op? |
| Sunday June 04, 2017 @10:05AM |
Twitter Isn't Removing Enough Hate Speech, Complains The EU |
| Monday May 29, 2017 @11:58AM |
China To Implement Cyber Security Law From Thursday |
| Monday May 29, 2017 @11:47AM |
Wikipedia's Switch To HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Government Censorship |
| Thursday May 25, 2017 @02:33PM |
Egypt Blocks 21 Websites For 'Terrorism' And 'Fake News' |
| Wednesday May 24, 2017 @11:18AM |
China Censored Google's AlphaGo Match Against World's Best Go Player |
| Tuesday May 23, 2017 @05:46PM |
FCC Won't Punish Stephen Colbert For Controversial Trump Insult |
| Thursday May 04, 2017 @04:55PM |
Cloudflare Helps Serve Up Hate Online: Report |
| Saturday April 29, 2017 @11:40AM |
Wikipedia Is Being Blocked In Turkey |
| Tuesday April 25, 2017 @02:55PM |
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales is Launching an Online Publication To Fight Fake News |
| Tuesday April 25, 2017 @02:54PM |
Google Looks at People As it Pledges To Fight Fake News and 'Offensive' Content |
| Friday March 31, 2017 @04:35AM |
House Approves Bill To Force Public Release of EPA Science |
| Tuesday March 14, 2017 @04:33PM |
Germany Plans To Fine Social Media Sites Over Hate Speech |
| Wednesday March 01, 2017 @12:01PM |
Twitter To Get Even Harsher On Trolls |
| Friday February 24, 2017 @12:25PM |
Google Releases an AI Tool For Publishers To Spot and Weed Out Toxic Comments |
| Tuesday February 21, 2017 @05:57PM |
'We Won't Block Pirate Bay,' Swedish Telecoms Giant Says |
| Thursday February 16, 2017 @03:02PM |
CloudFlare Puts Pirate Sites on New IP Addresses, Avoids Cogent Blockade |
| Sunday February 12, 2017 @10:57AM |
Twitter Announces (More) Hate-Speech Fighting Tools (Again) |
| Friday February 10, 2017 @05:38PM |
Internet Backbone Provider Cogent Blocks Pirate Bay and Other 'Pirate' Sites |
| Thursday February 09, 2017 @01:09PM |
Tor's Ooniprobe, Now Available On Android and iOS, Helps People Track Internet Censorship |
| Wednesday February 08, 2017 @02:25PM |
Why Has Cameroon Blocked the Internet? |
| Friday February 03, 2017 @12:31PM |
Reddit Bans Far-Right Groups Altright and Alternativeright |
| Saturday January 14, 2017 @08:15PM |
Thousands Of Cubans Now Have Internet Access |
| Monday January 09, 2017 @09:45AM |
Russia Demands LinkedIn App Takedown, Apple and Google Comply |
| Sunday January 01, 2017 @11:14AM |
Germany Considers Fining Facebook $522,000 Per Fake News Item |
| Friday December 30, 2016 @09:12AM |
Governments Shut Down the Internet More Than 50 Times in 2016 |
| Thursday December 22, 2016 @02:30PM |
South Carolina Bill Wants To Put Porn Blocks On New Computers |
| Monday December 19, 2016 @10:57AM |
Turkey Blocks Tor's Anonymity Network |
| Thursday December 15, 2016 @12:02PM |
China Takes Action On Thousands Of Websites For 'Harmful', Obscene Content |
| Monday December 12, 2016 @06:37AM |
Twitter Reinstates White Nationalist Leader's Account |
| Sunday December 11, 2016 @03:34PM |
Google Global Cache Is Coming to Cuba |
| Saturday December 10, 2016 @05:18AM |
Twitter Cuts API Access For Media Sonar, Spy Tool Used To Target Black Lives Matter |
| Tuesday December 06, 2016 @11:58AM |
Facebook Begins Asking Users To Rate Articles' Use of 'Misleading Language' |
| Monday December 05, 2016 @02:31PM |
EU Threatens Twitter And Facebook With Possible 'Hate Speech' Laws |
| Saturday December 03, 2016 @04:34PM |
UK Health Secretary Urges Social Media Companies To Block Cyberbullying And Underaged Sexting |
| Saturday December 03, 2016 @03:41AM |
It Will Soon Be Illegal To Punish US Customers Who Criticize Businesses Online |
| Friday December 02, 2016 @12:16AM |
China Is Censoring People's Chats Without Them Even Knowing About It |
| Tuesday November 29, 2016 @06:06AM |
Microsoft Confirms Its Chinese-Language Chatbot Filters Certain Topics |
| Saturday November 26, 2016 @09:12AM |
Advertising Company AppNexus Bans Breitbart News Over Hate Speech |
| Thursday November 24, 2016 @11:38AM |
Reddit CEO Admits To Editing User Comments Amid Pizzagate Malarkey |
| Tuesday November 22, 2016 @07:39PM |
Facebook Said To Create Censorship Tool To Get Back Into China |
| Tuesday November 22, 2016 @06:53PM |
UK Government Confirm Move to Force ISPs into Blocking "Adult" Sites |
| Monday November 21, 2016 @01:56AM |
EFF Report Finds 74% Of Censorship News Stories Are About Facebook |
| Thursday November 17, 2016 @06:06AM |
Twitter Suspends American Far-Right Activists' Accounts |
| Friday November 11, 2016 @08:05PM |
WikiLeaks Calls for Pardons From President Obama -- Or President Trump |
| Wednesday November 09, 2016 @06:04PM |
Donald Trump Won Because of Facebook |
| Sunday November 06, 2016 @10:02PM |
Gawker Pays $750,000 To That Guy Who Didn't Invent Email |
| Friday November 04, 2016 @10:37PM |
Turkey Doubles Down On Censorship With Block On VPNs, Tor |
| Friday November 04, 2016 @11:21AM |
China Internet Authority Formalizes Regulations For Live-Streaming Industry |
| Friday November 04, 2016 @10:20AM |
Turkey Blocks Access To Twitter, WhatsApp, YouTube, and Facebook |
| Sunday October 23, 2016 @01:12PM |
Facebook Bans Animated Breast Cancer Awareness Video Showing Circle-Shaped Breasts |
| Saturday October 22, 2016 @07:15PM |
Cisco Develops System To Automatically Cut-Off Pirate Video Streams |
| Saturday October 22, 2016 @02:59PM |
Journalist Cleared of Riot Charges in South Dakota |
| Friday October 21, 2016 @06:34PM |
Facebook Employees Tried To Remove Trump Posts As Hate Speech |
| Wednesday October 19, 2016 @11:17AM |
Ecuador Acknowledges Limiting Julian Assange's Web Access |
| Monday October 17, 2016 @06:06PM |
Journalists Face Jail Time After Reporting on North Dakota Pipeline Protest |
| Thursday October 13, 2016 @02:13PM |
Beijing Said Facebook and Google Are Welcome Back To China as Long as They 'Respect China's Laws' |
| Tuesday October 11, 2016 @01:05AM |
Dozens of Suspicious Court Cases Aim At Getting Web Pages Taken Down Or Deindexed |
| Sunday October 09, 2016 @02:58PM |
Dropbox, Google Drive, GitHub and Microsoft OneDrive Cloud Services Blocked In Turkey |
| Tuesday October 04, 2016 @11:40PM |
Indonesia Wants To Criminalize Memes |
| Tuesday September 27, 2016 @07:43PM |
Anti-Defamation League Declares Pepe the Frog a Hate Symbol |
| Tuesday September 27, 2016 @11:05AM |
California Enacts Law Requiring IMDb To Remove Actor Ages On Request |
| Sunday September 25, 2016 @12:38PM |
Krebs Is Back Online Thanks To Google's Project Shield |
| Saturday September 24, 2016 @12:25AM |
U.S. Funds Challenges To North Korea's 'Information Shield' |
| Tuesday September 13, 2016 @12:16AM |
Instagram Rolls Out 'Keyword Moderation Tool' That Will Filter Out Offensive Comments |
| Monday September 12, 2016 @05:29PM |
Ubuntu Torrent Removed From Google Due To DMCA Complaint |
| Sunday September 11, 2016 @06:09PM |
Are Governments Denying Internet Access To Their Political Opponents? |
| Wednesday September 07, 2016 @05:00PM |
Cuba Is Blocking Text Messages That Contain Words Like 'Democracy' |
| Saturday September 03, 2016 @09:50AM |
Creators Call Out YouTube For Demonetizing Videos |
| Friday September 02, 2016 @09:46PM |
Feds Spend Nearly $500K To 'Combat Online Trolling' |
| Saturday August 27, 2016 @11:01AM |
Twitter Is Working On Anti-Harassment Keyword Filtering Tool, Says Report |
| Friday August 26, 2016 @04:18PM |
British Companies Are Selling Advanced Spy Tech To Authoritarian Regimes |
| Monday August 22, 2016 @08:02PM |
North Korea Unveils Netflix-Like Streaming Service Called 'Manbang' |
| Sunday August 21, 2016 @01:53PM |
Twitter Announces New Blocking and Filtering Features |
| Sunday August 21, 2016 @11:07AM |
India Threatens 3-Year Jail Sentences For Viewing Blocked Torrents |
| Monday August 15, 2016 @12:55AM |
Former Twitter Employees: 'Abuse Problem' Comes From Their Culture Of Free Speech |
| Thursday August 11, 2016 @09:17PM |
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Secretly Censored Abusive Responses To President Obama, Says Report |
| Sunday August 07, 2016 @11:05PM |
Microsoft, Google, Apple Could Be Requested To Actively Block Pirated Downloads, Says Report |
| Saturday August 06, 2016 @09:01PM |
Stopping Trolls Is 'Now Life and Death For Twitter', Argues Backchannel |
| Saturday August 06, 2016 @10:32AM |
Yahoo's New Anti-Abuse AI Outperforms Previous AI |
| Wednesday August 03, 2016 @12:34PM |
Donald Trump Signs Pledge To Crack Down On Internet Porn |
| Sunday July 31, 2016 @08:39PM |
Chased Off of YouTube, Leaked 'No Man's Sky' Footage Runs to Pornhub |
| Monday July 25, 2016 @06:03PM |
Facebook Admits Blocking WikiLeaks' DNC Email Links, But Won't Say Why |
| Monday July 25, 2016 @11:33AM |
China Bans Internet News Reporting As Media Crackdown Widens |
| Saturday July 23, 2016 @05:52AM |
Microsoft Rewrites Wassenaar Arms Control Pact To Protect The Infosec Industry |
| Tuesday July 19, 2016 @04:22PM |
Google and Bing Have No Obligation To Censor Searches For Torrents |
| Tuesday July 19, 2016 @12:52PM |
Brazil Judge Orders Phone Carriers To Block WhatsApp Message App |
| Sunday July 17, 2016 @02:22PM |
Did Armenia Censor Facebook? |
| Saturday July 16, 2016 @01:51AM |
Starbucks and McDonald's Announce Porn Blocks On Their Wi-Fi Networks |
| Friday July 15, 2016 @05:11PM |
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube Blocked In Turkey During Reported Coup Attempt |
| Saturday July 09, 2016 @11:50AM |
Wannabe Prime Minister Andrea Leadsom Thinks Websites Should Be Rated Like Films |
| Friday July 08, 2016 @11:56PM |
UK Proposes Mandatory Age Verification For Porn Sites |
| Thursday July 07, 2016 @11:19PM |
Facebook Decides Which Killings We're Allowed to See |
| Thursday July 07, 2016 @03:19PM |
UK ISP Sky Is About To Start Censoring the Web For All of Its Customers |
| Saturday July 02, 2016 @11:40PM |
UN Council: Seriously, Nations, Stop Switching Off the Internet! |
| Monday June 27, 2016 @09:58AM |
Google and Facebook May Be Suppressing 'Extremist' Speech With Copyright Scanners |
| Sunday June 26, 2016 @06:47PM |
Religious Hacker Defaces 111 Escort Sites |
| Wednesday June 22, 2016 @04:48PM |
The New Censorship: 'How Did Google Become The Internet's Censor and Master Manipulator?' |
| Friday June 17, 2016 @04:32PM |
Thanks To Apple's Influence, You're Not Getting A Rifle Emoji |
| Tuesday June 14, 2016 @09:40PM |
Peter Thiel's Lawyer Wants To Silence Reporting On Trump's Hair |
| Sunday June 12, 2016 @06:31PM |
World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History |
| Friday June 10, 2016 @05:25PM |
There's No Evidence That Google Is Manipulating Searches To Help Hillary Clinton |
| Friday June 10, 2016 @04:04PM |
Chinese Government Fakes Nearly 450 Million Social Media Posts a Year |
| Thursday June 09, 2016 @06:23PM |
Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Internet Has Become 'World's Largest Surveillance Network' |
| Wednesday June 08, 2016 @11:01AM |
KickassTorrents Enters The Dark Web, Adds Official Tor Address |
| Friday June 03, 2016 @07:23PM |
UK Risks Over-Blocking Content Online, Warns Human Rights Watchdog |
| Friday June 03, 2016 @01:40PM |
Facebook Spares Humans By Fighting Offensive Photos With AI |
| Thursday June 02, 2016 @01:21AM |
Twitter Ignites Censorship Debate After Removal Of Parody Putin Account |
| Tuesday May 31, 2016 @11:09PM |
Microsoft, Facebook, YouTube and Others Agree To Remove Hate Speech Across the EU |
| Tuesday May 31, 2016 @04:12PM |
PayPal To Suspend Business Operations In Turkey Following License Denial |
| Saturday May 21, 2016 @04:50AM |
Fox 'Stole' a Game Clip, Used It In Family Guy and DMCA'd the Original |
| Friday May 13, 2016 @01:26PM |
How to hack slasdot |
| Friday May 13, 2016 @04:52AM |
Mark Zuckerberg: 'No Evidence' Facebook Staff Suppressed Stories With Conservative Viewpoints |
| Saturday May 07, 2016 @08:30PM |
The Pirate Bay Now Blocked In Chrome, Firefox, And Safari |
| Saturday May 07, 2016 @07:13PM |
Prisons Moving To All-Video Visitation |
| Saturday May 07, 2016 @12:27AM |
Homeland Security Wants To Subpoena Techdirt Over The Identity Of A Hyperbolic Commenter |
| Monday May 02, 2016 @02:33PM |
WhatsApp Blocked in Brazil for 72 Hours Over Data Dispute |
| Monday April 25, 2016 @01:42PM |
Fired Reddit Exec Launches Competing Site |
| Sunday April 24, 2016 @02:56PM |
I finally caught them in the act! |
| Wednesday April 20, 2016 @05:35AM |
Utah Governor: 'Porn Is A Public Health Crisis' |
| Friday April 15, 2016 @05:18PM |
Apple's iTunes Movies and iBooks Stores Mysteriously Go Down In China |
| Friday April 15, 2016 @10:49AM |
Merkel allows prosecution of German comedian who mocked Turkish president |
| Thursday April 07, 2016 @02:07PM |
Architect of China's Great Firewall Embarrassed After Needing To Use VPN |
| Tuesday April 05, 2016 @02:18PM |
Cyber Commander Says It's 'Not Realistic' To Shut Down Internet |
