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Welcome to HTTP error code 451: Unavailable for legal reasons
There’s a new addition to the 400 family of error codes: give a hearty welcome to newcomer 451, the HTTP code that lets you …
India orders clampdown on Internet porn, sparks censorship debate
India has blocked hundreds of adult websites to prevent pornography becoming a social nuisance, a government official said on Monday, sparking a debate about …
Firefox blocks Flash, and Facebook calls for its death
Adobe Flash, the much-loathed, bug-plagued relic of a browser plugin, just got a big nail driven into its coffin. Mozilla blocked Flash by default …
Your favourite piracy sites could disappear soon
The Federal Government has passed new legislation designed to block access to websites that are used to find pirated material, such as The Pirate …
Blocking Pirate Bay doesn’t increase legit sales, study finds
Carnegie Mellon researchers have authored a study on how website blocks impact consumer behavior, and whether such actions can be used to reduce content …
Key Parts of Patriot Act Expire Temporarily as Senate Moves Toward Limits on Spying
The government’s authority to sweep up vast quantities of phone records in the hunt for terrorists expired at 12:01 a.m. Monday after Senator Rand …
China Is Said to Use Powerful New Weapon to Censor Internet
Late last month, China began flooding American websites with a barrage of Internet traffic in an apparent effort to take out services that allow …
Reuters websites blocked in China
Reuters news websites were inaccessible in China on Friday, the latest Western news organisation to be blocked in a country where censors keep a …
Android adware ‘infects millions’ of phones and tablets
Android users are being warned that several popular apps that were on the official Google Play store appear to have contained hidden code that …
Air Canada Blocks Access To Any Google Hosted RSS Feed (Including Techdirt) For No Good Reason
Friend (and frequent Techdirt contributor) Derek Kerton passed along a screenshot of his own recent experience trying to follow a Techdirt link at the …
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