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Apple apparently censoring the word "jailbreak" in US iTunes Store
Developers, musicians, and probably any other content provider in the U.S. iTunes Store have a new Apple policy to deal with this morning; you apparently can't use the term "jailbreak" in a product description or name. If you do slip up, or happen to be like 70's rock band Thin Lizzy and have a h...
Iranian Supreme Leader's Antifiltering Fatwa Filtered for Mentioning "Antifiltering" [Iran]
The Iranian government's plan to install a Great Firewall like China's certainly didn't take long to backfire. According to reports, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's fatwa against antifiltering tools was almost immediately auto-blocked by the government's own censoring system—because...
The Dutch Have the Weirdest Google Maps Censorship [Censorship]
The Netherlands have given the world so much: pizza, sex tourism, The Hague, Rembrandt, Vermeer—and let's not Aelbert Cuyp. In the tradition of the last three, the Dutch now serve up the most artistically bizarre Google blurring ever.More »
Google co-founder Sergey Brin: Apple a threat to Internet freedom
The principles of openness and universal access that underpinned the creation of the internet...
Iran Denies It's Shutting Down the Internet in August, Merely Building a New One Next March [Censorship]
Iran has issued a strongly worded statement denying reports from yesterday that the country planned to shut itself off from the rest of the Internet. Quite the contrary—Iran is just building its own, closed version. Totally different!More »
Iran Hopes to Be Rid of Meddlesome Internet by August [Censorship]
Iran has had it up to here with the Internet—Google's easy access to information, iTunes' funneling in of Western Media, and don't even get them started on Stuxnet—all totally the Internet's fault. So, to preserve theocratic rule in the modern era, Iran is cutting off the Internet. Li...
Arizona legislature passes Internet censorship bill to make 'offensive' speech illegal
The Arizona State Legislature on Monday passed an Internet censorship bill...
Trolling Will Soon Be Illegal in Arizona [Censorship]
One of the Internet's basic tenets—the right to be as much of a myopic, infantile asshat as humanly possible—is currently under attack in Arizona. A sweeping update to the state's telecommunications harrasment bill could make naughty, angry words a class 1 misdemeanor—or worse.M...
Brazil Is Suing Twitter for Tweeting DUI Checkpoints [Censorship]
Twitter has caught some flack in other countries for giving accounts free reign on what they can tweet. Twitter responded that it'll adjust its policy to include the ability to censor tweets if a country demands it to. We just might see Twitter's first high profile case sooner than later because ...
Apple Doesn't Want You To Read About Penises In Newsstand
Yesterday we brought you a storyall about how Apple is inadvertenly censoring rappers and their profane lyrics, but it looks like Cupertino isn’t happy with just ruining rap music… they also want to make sure your Newsstand magazines don’t talk about penises, even in a clinical...
