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Residents of mainland China got a rude awakening today. According to The Telegraph, popular voice over IP (VoIP) app Skype has been declared illegal in the country. The only Internet voice calls that will be legal to place are those made over the two g…
Postfinance, the financial arm of Swiss Post, has made the decision to close the bank account of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. This was one of the main ways Assange took contributions to fund the secret document posting site. According to the AP, P…
In the wee hours of the morning today, WikiLeaks went offline. Was it a coordinated DDoD attack? The authorities raiding WikiLeak’s servers? Nah, their DNS host just got sick of dealing with all the traffic. Since releasing the newest round of leaked U…
The BBC in reporting today that a Chinese human rights advocate is being jailed for sending a tweet. The incident occurred last month when Cheng Jianping’s fiancé (who is also a human rights advocate) sent a tweet insinuating that those protesting Jap…
In recent days, residents of Turkey have had unrestricted access to YouTube for the first time in 30 months. Now a court in Ankara has ordered the site banned again because the video sharing site hosts clips featuring former opposition leader Deniz Bay…
It’s long been known that the Chinese authorities don’t take kindly to people using sites like Twitter and Facebook in the country. The possibility that people might anonymously congregate on these popular sites frightens them to such a degree that the…
You may remember earlier this week when the interwebs were abuzz with news that the Libyan domain registry NIC.ly had pulled down a domain shortener. The site was at vb.ly, and NIC.ly has made a statement about the matter. They claim that since v…
I wish I could say this was unexpected, but, well, let’s be honest here: My reaction to EA’s last-minute act of self-censorship was less of a “WHAT” moment and more of a dejected sigh followed by the shocking realization that, holy moly, t…