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ISPs caught sabotaging their customers' email encryption - Boing Boing - 0 views

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    "But ISPs in the USA and Thailand have been caught sabotaging STARTTLS, interrupting the negotiation between mail-servers to prevent the encryption bit from being turned on, leaving millions of peoples' email liable to snooping by crooks, governments, spies and others. "
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Pakistan Orders ISPs To Block 429,343 Websites Completely, Because There's Porn On The ... - 0 views

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    "has told ISPs that they need to start blocking an astounding 429,343 websites at the domain level as quickly as possible, following a Supreme Court order to the PTA about the evils of porn online."
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Who's accountable for Britain's Internet censorwall? - Boing Boing - 0 views

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    ""It seems Cameron and Perry have ignored official government policy, invented their own policy and forced it onto UK ISPs. With no legislation, and no complaints from Lib Dem MPS or the ISPs, we have completely unaccountable "nudge censorship" being forced onto the UK population with no debate.""
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Telcos' anti-Net Neutrality argument may let the MPAA destroy DNS - Boing Boing - 0 views

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    "A leaked MPAA document discloses the studios' lobbyists' plan to force ISPs to give it control over DNS (one of the key goals in SOPA), by using the arguments raised in the decade-old Brand X case, where the ISPs said that they were more than a "telecommunications service" and were, instead, an "information service" because they provided DNS (among other things)."
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Turkey orders block of Twitter's IP addresses - Boing Boing - 0 views

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    "Just a few days after Turkey's scandal-rocked government banned Twitter by tweaking national DNS settings, the state has doubled down by ordering ISPs to block Twitter's IP addresses, in response to the widespread dissemination of alternative DNS servers, especially Google's 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 (these numbers were even graffitied on walls). "
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Great Firewall of Cameron blocks Parliamentary committee on rendition/torture - Boing B... - 0 views

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    "Like China's Great Firewall, the UK firewall is a patchwork of rules and filters that are opaque to users and regulators. Every ISP uses its own censorship supplier to spy on its customers and decide what they're allowed to see, and they change what is and is not allowed from moment to moment, with no transparency into how, when or why those decisions are being made. "
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Piracy Surcharge Set To Force 40,000 Households Offline | TorrentFreak - 0 views

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    Hmm - not such a good idea huh...
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FBI's Most Wanted: Your Browsing Activity - 0 views

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    Seems the whole world is going to more and more surveillance of the internet and our private transactions - do you think this will make use safer?
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Minister for Digital Britain thinks an IP address is an "Intellectual Property address"... - 0 views

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    Well it has happened - and all with such ignorance no wonder the UK has so many problems when things are decided in such a poor and misunderstood way.
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