On March 21st, 2026 with 54 comments
13 million people live in Moscow, reports CNN.
But since early March the city "has experienced internet and mobile service outages on a level previously...
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On February 19th, 2026 with 55 comments
The U.S. State Department is reportedly developing a site called freedom.gov that would let users in Europe and elsewhere access content restricted under local...
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On December 24th, 2025 with 169 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: The State Department announced Tuesday it was barring five Europeans it accused of leading...
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On December 15th, 2025 with 64 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Several dozen people protested on Sunday in the Siberian city of Tomsk against Russia's ban on U.S....
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On December 8th, 2025 with 38 comments
Longtime Slashdot reader hackingbear writes: Taiwan's government has ordered a one-year block of a popular, mainland Chinese-owned social media app...
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On December 4th, 2025 with 51 comments
Russia has blocked Apple's FaceTime and the gaming platform Roblox as part of a broader crackdown on foreign tech platforms. CBC News reports: Both...
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On October 17th, 2025 with 49 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Texas is being sued by a Big Tech lobby group over the state's new law that will require app stores to...
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On July 28th, 2025 with 245 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Polygon: In the wake of storefronts like Steam and itch.io curbing the sale of adult games, irate fans have started an...
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On June 9th, 2025 with 200 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: YouTube videos may be getting a bit more pernicious soon. Google's dominant video platform has spent...
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On June 5th, 2025 with 49 comments
China's southernmost province of Hainan is piloting a programme to grant select corporate users broad access to the global internet, a rare move in a country...
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On May 28th, 2025 with 255 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday that the U.S. would restrict visas for "foreign...
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On May 6th, 2025 with 50 comments
President Trump's proposed 2026 budget seeks to cut nearly $500 million from CISA, accusing the agency of prioritizing censorship over cybersecurity and...
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On April 25th, 2025 with 30 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Government censorship has found its way to Bluesky, but there's currently a loophole thanks to how the...
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On April 22nd, 2025 with 20 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Cloud-based web application platform Vercel is among the latest companies to find their servers blocked...
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On March 13th, 2025 with 87 comments
Ancient Slashdot reader Alain Williams shares a report from the BBC: Meta has won an emergency ruling in the US to temporarily stop a former director of...
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On March 6th, 2025 with 40 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The U.S. House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed Alphabet on Thursday seeking its communications with former...
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On February 20th, 2025 with 201 comments
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has launched an inquiry into potential "censorship" by technology platforms ranging from Meta to Uber, marking an escalation...
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On February 2nd, 2025 with 65 comments
The photography blog PetaPixel once interviewed the photographer who took one of the most famous "Tank Man" photos showing a tank-defying protester during...
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On January 19th, 2025 with 73 comments
ABC News reported that the official newspaper of China's communist party is claiming TikTok refugees on RedNote found a "new home," and "openness,...
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On December 23rd, 2024 with 22 comments
Vietnam's Decree 147 mandates social media users on platforms like Facebook and TikTok to verify their identities and requires tech companies to store and...
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On September 25th, 2024 with 13 comments
As of September 11th, Russia has blocked access to OONI Explorer, citing concerns over circumvention tools. This block affects Russian users' ability to access...
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On August 26th, 2024 with 288 comments
In a letter to the House Judiciary Committee, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expressed regret for not being more vocal about "government pressure" to censor...
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On August 17th, 2024 with 163 comments
X.com "says it's ending business operations in Brazil effective immediately," reports Engadget, "but the service will remain available to users in the...
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On August 9th, 2024 with 47 comments
Russia has blocked access to the encrypted Signal messaging app to "prevent the messenger's use of terrorist and extremist purposes." YouTube is also facing...
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On June 13th, 2024 with 129 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Intercept: The Mozilla Foundation,the entity behind the web browser Firefox, is blocking various censorship...
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On March 20th, 2024 with 32 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: In India, a government-run agency will now monitor and undertake fact-checking for government related...
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On February 15th, 2024 with 89 comments
samleecole shares a report from 404 Media: A trove of leaked emails shows how administrators of one of the most prestigious awards in science fiction censored...
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On January 12th, 2024 with 110 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: The trailer for "Annapoorani: The Goddess of Food" promised a sunny if melodramatic story of...
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On January 3rd, 2024 with 271 comments
Alex Hern reports via the Guardian: The email newsletter service Substack is facing a user revolt after its chief executive defended hosting and handling...
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On September 16th, 2023 with 16 comments
For over 30 years the EFF has presented awards recognizing those "advancing innovation and championing digital rights," according to its web site, celebrating...
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