Digital Tyranny

Displaying 31 - 34 of 34

China Defends Web-Filter Plan for Sales of PCs

online.wsj.com • Wed 2009 Jun 10, 4:12pm

spokesman for China's Ministry of Industry and Information Industry saying that users will have a choice whether to install the filtering software... [Right! Same choice you always get under tyranny. Install it or ELSE!!!]

China blocks Twitter service ahead of anniversary

news.yahoo.com • Tue 2009 Jun 2, 11:41am

Access to the popular social networking service Twitter and email service Hotmail was blocked across mainland China late on Tuesday afternoon, two days before the twentieth anniversary of a bloody crackdown on Tiananmen Square... "If anything surprises me, it's that it took them so long...."

Conneaut says no to Web site

starbeacon.com • Tue 2009 May 19, 7:43pm

CONNEAUT — City administrators have sent a letter to a local Website operator, ordering her to remove information related to municipal offices.... Ward 1 Councilman Dave Campbell, who has promoted the Web site, was outraged by the letter, calling it "garbage. We cannot dictate how she runs her business...."

Unplugging the Internet

worldnetdaily.com • Mon 2009 Apr 13, 10:07pm

Two Democrats and a Republican — or perhaps I should say three "Democrats" in the Senate, have moved the ball further down the court to controlling and shutting down the Internet. What?! That's right. Senate Bill 773, the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 written by Jay Rockefeller, D-W. Va.; Bill Nelson, D-Fla.; and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, would give the president and the Commerce Department unlimited power to declare an emergency and pull the plug.