Researchers at the University of Maryland developed a new tool based on genetic evolution that automatically learned to evade censorship in China, India and Kazakhstan Internet censorship by... Read more
Curbs on free speech are growing tighter. It is time to speak out IN A sense, this is a golden age for free speech. Your smartphone can call up newspapers from the other side of world in sec... Read more
Jing Yuechen, the founder of an Internet start-up here in the Chinese capital, has no interest in overthrowing the Communist Party But these days she finds herself cursing the nation’s smoth... Read more
Researchers have created a tool to monitor the accessibility of Web pages around the world that can be installed by adding a single line of code to a web page. The tool, Encore, runs when a... Read more
Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee has warned that the democratic nature of the net is threatened by a “growing tide of surveillance and censorship”. The warning came as he launched... Read more
Fossil fuel companies have been funding smear campaigns that raise doubts about climate change, writes John Sauven in the latest issue of Index on Censorship magazine. Environmental campaign... Read more
It’s been pointed out over and over again that censoring the internet is no way to deal with things like copyright infringement. The ability of amateurs to build and launch thei... Read more
Chinese citizens could once again enjoy LOL Cats on YouTube – as well as content critical of the communist government – if a new system developed by researchers at the University... Read more
As the United Nations has said, access to the Internet is a human right. A report by the U.N.’s special rapporteur presented last month to the Human Rights Council in Geneva warns that this... Read more
Image via Wikipedia In the new issue of Index on Censorship, ‘Brave New Words’, leading internet experts Ron Deibert and Rafal Rohozinski call for a new approach to tackling cens... Read more