censorship

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• Web giants remove content on India's order

  Google India has removed web pages deemed offensive to Indian political and religious leaders to comply with a court case that has raised censorship fears in the world's largest democracy.

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  Twitter to censor tweets in specific countries

  Twitter now has the ability to censor tweets in specific countries, the social networking service announced on Thursday.

• China closes 130,000 Internet cafes as it seeks more control

  China shut down more than 130,000 illegal Internet cafes in the country over a six year period, as part of crackdown to control the market, according to a new Chinese government report.

• WikiLeaks: China pressured Google on Internet censorship

  Google's struggles to operate its search engine in China worsened after a high-ranking Chinese official Googled himself only to find "results critical of him," according to a new cable> released by WikiLeaks on Saturday.

• Google tool shows blocked services

  Google released a new online tool that shows where the internet giant's services and products such as YouTube are being blocked around the world.

• North Korea-linked Facebook page deleted again

  For the second time in less than a week a Facebook account created by a North Korea-linked Web site has been deleted by the social networking site.

• Facebook deletes North Korean account, but it resurfaces

  A Facebook account established by a North Korea-linked Web site was deleted by the social networking service on Friday, but a new group sprang up over the weekend to take its place.

• Bomb-making tips tied to blog shut-down

  The Internet has been abuzz with rumors and conjecture about why blogging Web site Blogetery.com and its reported 70,000 bloggers went dark last week.

• Pakistan bans more Web sites on religious grounds

  Pakistan has blocked 17 Web sites and is closely monitoring seven other sites and search engines for content considered offensive and blasphemous, according to a spokesman of the country's telecommunications regulator, the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA).

• Facebook block removed in Pakistan, imposed in Bangladesh

  The Lahore High Court in Pakistan on Monday ordered Facebook to be unblocked in the country, after the government said that the web site had promised to make material considered derogatory inaccessible to users in Pakistan.

• Pakistan may relax bans on YouTube, Facebook

  The Pakistan government is considering removing a ban on YouTube and Facebook, a senior minister said on Wednesday.

• Facebook page banned by Pakistan is back online

  The Facebook page that led the Pakistan government to ban the entire site was back online Saturday, at least for some users, after it was inaccessible for about two days.

• Pakistan action the latest global Web crackdown

  As Pakistan extends its crackdown on Internet material it deems offensive, leading Facebook to consider blocking potentially objectionable content inside the nation, it's interesting to see how this latest battle over Web censorship relates to similar global events in recent years. Here are some notable instances of governments around the world curtailing or cutting off Internet access in their countries.

• Facebook considers censoring content in Pakistan

  Facebook said Thursday it may consider making content that is considered objectionable by Pakistan inaccessible to users in the country.

• Pakistan extends Web site ban to include YouTube

  Pakistan's telecommunications regulator, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), said on Thursday that it has directed ISPs to block YouTube after material considered "sacrilegious" was found on it.