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While censorship of the freedom of expression or political views is often highlighted at ironcove.net, there are times when content filtering is a very important tool for Nonprofits organizations. Particularly those who may have public access computers and volunteer staff. A solid "computer use policy" is important as can be content filtering software. A content filter is a piece of hardware or software that acts a shield between the Internet ...

IFEX have some information about censorship in China, with an interesting quote from a government official. It is all so matter of fact in the way he explains the shutdown. RSF/IFEX - Reporters Without Borders has condemned the Shanghai Information Bureaus decision to shut down a literary forum run by poet Lu Yang. This came after the Chinese government blocked access to Israeli literary website http://www.shvoong.com for its 20,000 ...

William Kamkwamba has found himself become an internet celebrity pretty much overnight. Read through his blog and some of the background he really has taken the future by the hands. The windmill that started it all. Inspiring Stuff! Boing Boing has some related comments and links revolving around the Vanity Fair Africa issue and Ted Global conference.

Secure your email and keep your software up to date. Running an alternate operating system such as Ubuntu can help to reduce your exposure to these sorts of attacks. Though as with all operating systems it is still vitally important that you keep your systems up to date, using the automatic update feature. On December 1, 2005, two e-mail messages were sent from a computer in Western Australia to ...

Worldchanging.com has an excellent article covering the tools you can use to publish securely and anonymously. Indeed, Tor is a hugely useful tool for people in China trying to evade the Great Firewall, or for people trying to publish online with a persistent, untraceable psuedonym. Roger was interested in meeting a group of dissidents to understand what their needs are and how future versions of Tor could be more ...

The government of Pakistan blocked access to hundreds of blogspot.com-hosted blogs on March 1. Pakistani bloggers are appealing for help, and ask fellow bloggers overseas to join them in condeming this act of internet censorship. Pakistan blocks access to blogspot.com

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Boingboing is covering an ongoing story of government authorities raids on newspaper and television offices in Kenya. The attack on press freedoms is being covered by a Kenyan Blogger.

Some good coverage from BoingBoing on the censhorship of an outspoken and widely read chinese blogger. Boing Boing: Report: Outspoken Chinese blogger censored by Microsoft

In todays world there are two things required for a media outlet. Credibility and strong information security kung-fu. Looks like these guys are struggling with both. Malicious hackers succeeded in forcing a Russian government-run TV station off the air on Monday just two days after its launch. Russia Today broadcasts in English and is designed to counterbalance what the Kremlin perceives is unfair treatment of Russia by foreign ...