Amol Sharma, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 6 at 10:30 am PT
Google Inc. removed some controversial content from its Indian services to comply with a court order in a civil lawsuit, the latest twist in the legal drama over Web censorship in the world’s largest democracy.
Ina Fried in Dive Into Media on January 30 at 6:47 pm PT
Twitter’s chief says the company’s new ability to block tweets for a particular country is about censoring content for fewer people, not more.
Loretta Chao and Amir Efrati, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Social on January 27 at 5:30 am PT
Twitter Inc. says it can now make content selectively available to users based on geography, and plans to use that ability to enter countries with “different ideas” about freedom of expression as a human right — reflecting the difficult ethical questions facing Internet companies.
Kara Swisher in Media on January 20 at 11:32 am PT
What would Jack do? (And would it work anymore?)
Nitrozac and Snaggy in Voices on January 18 at 12:23 pm PT
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
A congressional “tech mandate” on search engines to delete a domain name from search results does not result in the website disappearing. Users can and do today find their way to these websites largely without the help of search engines. Relative to the questionable efficacy of this proposed remedy, requiring search engines to delete a domain name begins a worldwide arms race of unprecedented “censorship” of the Web.
– From a letter written by Vint Cerf to Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the House Judiciary chairman and author of SOPA, warning of the dangers of the bill
Steve Stecklow, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 9, 2011 at 5:00 am PT
Pressure mounted Thursday on U.S. and Western companies that sell censorship and surveillance technology to repressive regimes, with a congressman introducing a bill that would restrict such exports.
Steve Stecklow, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 1, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
A bill that would restrict U.S. exports of technology that can be used by repressive regimes to censor the Internet or conduct surveillance on users will be introduced in the House soon.
