British Prime Minister David Cameron announced a sweeping set of reforms on Monday that seeks to limit access to online pornography and do away with the more obscene materials. In a speech, Cameron outlined a new filter system that will compel all British internet users to select whether or not they want family-friendly filters in place on their accounts. Blimey.
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U.S.-based human rights watchdog Freedom House released a report about internet freedom today, and its conclusions are chilling for everyone who considers the internet to be a transformational force worldwide. The report, which assesses the internet policies and laws of 47 countries between 2011 and 2012, concludes that several regimes are combining tried-and-true techniques of filtering with newer extra-governmental surveillance. In particular, Saudia Arabia, Ethiopia and China have increased internet filtering and monitoring in response to partially-social-media driven political uprisings in the Middle East.
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It looks like the Dark Knight Rises hysteria is affecting more than just spoiler-averse fans. Billing itself as the “internet’s bat signal,” the newly formed Internet Defense League is a collective of companies, websites and non-profit groups– including the EFF, Mozilla, Reddit and WordPress — banding together to nip future SOPAs and PIPAs in the bud. The IDL will officially launch today, and according to its website it’s enlisting web denizens to sign up and “broadcast an action” when net freedoms appear to be under threat. The League is really milking that Batman metaphor to full effect; it will broadcast its logo, a cat that looks plenty eager to tackle all foes of speech, into the sky in five cities around the world, including, interestingly, Ulan Bator, Mongolia.
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