chareverie writes "A law just passed in New York now requires labels for violent content in video games that are already rated, as well as having parent-controlled...

A US federal appeals court today struck down COPA, the Child Online Protection Act, a Clinton-era censorship law that the Justice Department has been struggling to get...

In today’s NY Times, Brian Stelter reports on the justified trepidation that US news organizations have about being able to report without interference from China,...

Google’s on and off negotiations with Digg have been back on in a big way for the last six weeks, we’ve heard from multiple sources inside of Google, and the...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has upheld a lower court ruling (PDF) that found the federal Child Online Protection Act (COPA) was...

For several years now NBC has meticulously planned all the details for its coverage of the many sports events at the Summer Olympics in China. But with the Games only 19...

"The difference between politics and pornography is a social one" http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/may/29/censorship.humanrights The tools companies use to...

Dreamfall: The Longest Journey is now (and has been for about a week or so) available on the Xbox 360 (the preferred console of true game connoisseurs, don’t you...

Has a Jimmy Fallon-hosted Late Night reality sunk in yet? Well, it's happening, and the ex-SNL cast member will be getting a head start by popping up at a URL near you...

Late last week, several reports appeared on the Chinese internet claiming that Tudou, one of China's biggest YouTube clones, was ordered to shut down by the State...

Jeremy Goldkorn at Danwei reports that China's State Administration for Radio Film and Television (SARFT) has included Chinese YouTube clone Tudou on list of 35...

...says Paul Denlinger at China Vortex, reacting to Thomas Crampton's recent online video discussion with Oiwan Lam on the 50 Cent Tribe:The biggest difference between...

"To reinvent institutions, reinvent laws, reinvent a society and trying to find organs that express and make it work — that is of course unique to this moment here."...

WIRED magazine's "Threat Level" blog has published a Cisco internal presentation from 2002 that makes the company's intentions look pretty darn bad. Leaked to...

selil writes "A story popped up on the ChicagoBoyz Blog. It says 'Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who would like very much to reimpose the old, so-called,...

An anonymous reader notes that following our discussion this week about the 15-year-old who was under threat of prosecution for calling Scientology a cult in a recent...

The most common method used by academics to map or track what bloggers are talking about in various countries is by counting the use of various keywords and putting them...

Reporters Without Borders is holding a 24-hour protest against Internet censorship today. You can click here to create and avatar and banner and join virtual...

by Stowe Boyd, Reston A story in the New York Times by Naom Cohen relates the recent discovery that Xeni Jardin deleted a bunch of posts from Boing-Boing that referred...

(From Global Voices: A near-blind friend of Hu Jia - later arrested herself - collects signatures for his release; close-up of the petition.) The...