A new report claims to have new information on how Microsoft censors content from its Bing search engine in China, including how it bans showing results for certain search terms like "human rights"
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China has resumed issuing licenses to game publishers after it spent the last nine months figuring out how to filter out extreme violence and how to limit games being too addictive for children.
There have been reports that the open beta for Battlefield V bans seemingly harmless words like "DLC", "Titanfall", and "lag" in its in-game chat. EA has now responded to the criticism surrounding it.
Outlast 2 has been denied certification in Australia, due to scenes which imply sexual violence. As a result, the game will not see a release in the country unless it is censored and resubmitted.
In an attempt to remove media which might be harmful for children, a government body in Germany has presumably removed 27 games from the Steam store, including the entire Postal series.
Russia's ever expanding internet laws threaten to block Google, Facebook, and Twitter entirely if they fail to censor and deliver information on Russian content and bloggers.
After discussing the issue with Twitter executives, the government of Turkey says it will begin to pixelate any Twitter posts that contain what they call 'malicious content'.
A series of drug related ads could be the beginning of Facebook Russia's demise. Russia's media watchdog announced it would not hesitate to block the site if it can prove that the ads had been used.
The four political parties in Russia are developing a bill that, if passed, would give the country's government the power to create a blacklist of websites based on topics like porn and drug ads.
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook and now Time’s Person of the Year 2010, wants to boldly go where few English-language social networks have gone before, China. According to the Guardian, Zuckerberg has been in meetings...
The Australian Federal Government has announced today it will introduce an amendment to the Broadcasting Services Act, which by 2011 will require all internet service providers in the country to implement and activate filtering technology....
Editing your own entry on Wikipedia is usually the province of vain celebrities keen for some good PR. But a new website has uncovered dozens of companies that have been editing the site in order...
Google Korea plans to introduce an age-verification system to its search engine on September 1, by having users verify their age when searching for any of about 700 Korean words judged to be adult and...
A Microsoft representative has responded to allegations surrounding the closure of a popular Chinese blog, confirming that the company did take the blog offline on New Years Eve. Hosted on MSN...