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Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering, published by MIT Press, is the first global survey of Internet filtering. The book documents and analyzes Internet filtering practices in over three dozen countries, offering the first rigorously conducted study of this accelerating trend. Look for it at your local bookstore, browse the results from the study in our country profiles and regional overviews, and check out PDFs of the other chapters!

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The Pakistan Communication Authority has issued directives to ISPs to block six web sites. According to The International News: "The directive came on the orders of the Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) for the Evaluation of Websites. The IMC constitutes representatives of...
According to the BBC, the UK government is evaluating a number of new Internet safeguards to protect children from content perceived as harmful or offensive. The UK’s Culture Secretary Andy Burnham, who is spearheading the initiative calling for film-style age...
While you were sleeping, Wikileaks released yet another report on Internet filtering...But this time the filtering is not in China, or Thailand, or Saudi Arabia...this time, it's in Denmark. The report states that Denmark chooses to filter child pornography rather than face...
Over the weekend, it was reported by WikiLeaks that the secret censorship lists of Thailand's Ministroy of Information and Communication Technology (MICT) had been obtained by advisory board member CJ Hinke, who is the director of Freedom Against Censorship Thailand. Wikileaks...

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