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Within a few days German member of parliament Lutz Heilmann (The Left – Die Linke) became famous in a way he probably had not expected. On Thursday, November 13, he successfully closed down www.wikipedia.de, the website of Wikipedia Germany which forwards...
With all of the news lately regarding Australia's Internet filtering scheme, one might think Australia were the first or only country to ever filter the Internet.
Since the filter was announced in 2007, it has been widely criticized. First, Australia announced...
By: Firuzeh Shokooh Valle and Christopher Soghoian
Since 2006, Internet users in Argentina have been blocked from searching for information about some of country's most notable individuals. Over 100 people have successfully secured temporary restraining orders that direct Google and Yahoo! Argentina...
Turkey has made headlines lately for its capricious filtering; although previous incidents involved filtering sites which insulted Kemal Ataturk or "Turkishness" in general, lately, the filtering seems nearly impulsive.
A site entitled List of websites blocked by Turkish Telecom...or how Turkey disgraces...
Global Internet Filtering
