These days Facebook, Google, etc are in news as they are occasionally dragged to courts for one reason or other. In most of the cases, these websites are prosecuted as they fail to comply with Indian laws and regulations. Even India government is very keen to regulate social media in India. In fact, […]
Investors Beware: New Tax Laws Could Cost You
While most people are busy eyeing the Presidential election, there is another critical element to which investors and others should be taking notice – the new tax laws that will go into effect immediately following the New Year. These new tax laws will impact everyone from the largest investors down to those struggling to find […]
Kyrgyzstan’s Security Service to Monitor Websites
By Timur Toktonaliev Media rights activists question wisdom of getting security agency to scour internet for hate speech. Observers have questioned the need for Kyrgyzstan’s security service to monitor websites to identify hate speech. The State Committee for National Security, or GKNB, is setting up a system to monitor the internet, with a particular […]
Sri Lanka: News Websites Offices Raided and Journalists Arrested
By Rezwan On June 29, 2012, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Sri Lanka raided offices of two news websites, the Sri Lanka Mirror (srilankamirror.com) and Sri Lanka X News (srilankaxnews.com). They arrested nine journalists, including the editor, and seized equipments on the grounds that the websites were “propagating false and unethical news on Sri […]
Philippines: Hackers deface 10 gov’t websites on ‘Independence day’ web freedom protest
Manila – At least 10 government websites were defaced in the Philippines on June 12th, the Philippines ‘Araw ng Kalayaan:", by a group calling itself ‘Private X,’ which is protesting Philippine cyber security laws pending in congress and provisions that they say in a hijack and defacement vandalism campaign on government websites. Todays protest Is […]
China Social Media Crackdown: 6 Arrested, 16 Websites Closed
Written by Violeta Camarasa News spread through the Chinese Internet as the country woke up to the following on Saturday, March 31, 2012: six people had been arrested and 16 websites closed for “fabricating or disseminating online rumors,” according to China’s National Internet Information Office (SIIO) and Beijing police, as official news agency Xinhua reported [1]. […]
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