Governator Wasting More CA Taxpayer Money On Unconstitutional Violent Video...
At last count, at least 10 states had passed laws banning the sale or rental of violent video games to children, and every single one of them has been thrown out as unconstitutional. At this point,...
View ArticlePerhaps Turkey Should Just Ban The Entire Internet
It would appear that the Turkish government and courts are a bit trigger happy when it comes to flat-out banning websites for almost no reason at all. In the past, we've reported on Turkish bans on...
View ArticleFormer Malaysian Prime Minister Now Blogging His Opposition To Press...
We've written an awful lot about the rise of political blogging in Malaysia. The government there has had something of a love-hate affair with blogs for quite some time, starting with a plan to force...
View ArticleBT Bans Talking About Phorm, Erases Earlier Discussions
You may recall that BT was one of the bigger supporters of Phorm, the controversial clickstream tracking system that would allow ISPs like BT to insert their own behaviorally targeted ads into your...
View ArticlePennsylvania Actually Realizes That Video Game Legislation Is A Bad Idea
We've seen so many states with grandstanding politicians trying to ban the sale of certain video games to kids -- despite the fact that every single law that's been passed along those lines in the US...
View ArticleMontenegro Gives Odd Reason For Banning Facebook On Gov't Computers
Banning Facebook at the office still doesn't make much sense to us, but even if we granted the (incorrect) premise that Facebook should be banned for being non-work related, it's still odd to see the...
View ArticleMBTA Will Work With MIT Students, Rather Than Suing Them, To Improve Security
You may recall, back in August, that the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority convinced a judge to ban the Defcon presentation by three MIT students, showing how weak the security was on the...
View ArticleCalifornia Video Game Law, Once Again, Found Unconstitutional
Some California politicians keep running into a pesky obstacle: The US Constitution. Despite court after court across the country finding bans on sales of violent video games to minors to be...
View ArticleFacebook Boots Off Almost 5600 Sex Offenders; Don't You Feel Safer Now?
Facebook says it's cleared about 5600 sex offenders from its userbase, following the big push from a bunch of state attorneys general. The figure's being compared to the 90,000 people that MySpace...
View ArticleSenators Want To Ban SMS Spam
While there have been lots of attempts to ban spam email (some less effective than others), text-message spam sent to mobile phones has largely escaped legislative scrutiny. The CAN SPAM Act bans...
View ArticleEgypt Bans Porn Websites: Good Luck With That
It appears that Egypt is the latest country to think that it can ban certain websites by court mandate. In this case, it's all pornographic websites, which have been deemed "venomous and vile" by the...
View ArticleIllinois Says Sex Offenders Can't Use Social Networks
Mark alerts us to the news that Illinois has approved a new law that bans registered sex offenders from social networking sites. Now, I have no sympathy for anyone who uses a social networking site to...
View ArticleIs Google Going Too Far In Latest Advertising Bans?
We've been talking a bit about some of the communications problem Google seems to have at times, often not doing a very good job communicating with the public on things that may impact them greatly....
View ArticleCourt Rejects Probation Rules On Teen That Ban Him From Using Social Networks...
We've written a few times about the ridiculousness of courts trying to ban the internet for certain people convicted of various crimes. However, what about specific bans on just part of the internet....
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A Look At How Many People Have Been Kicked Offline In Korea On Accusations...
With the Hadopi three strikes program in France kicking into full speed, it may be worth jumping halfway around the world to South Korea, which put in place a very strict copyright law last year, that...
View ArticleTurkey Lifts YouTube Ban... But Only After Someone Made Questionable...
It's been years since Turkey "banned" access to YouTube in the country, after some (apparently Greek) users uploaded a video making fun of the country's founder, Ataturk (which is considered a crime...
View ArticleKuwait Bans Cameras With Big Lenses -- Because People Might Get Worried...
Update: And, um, this story just got odder as the original article has been updated to state that the reporter got it flat out wrong, and no such ban has been instituted by the Kuwaiti government. I'm...
View ArticleUK May Reconsider COICA-Like Plan To Have ISPs Censor Websites Deemed Infringing
One part of the Digital Economy Act in the UK was that the UK government could have ISPs ordered to block certain websites deemed to be infringing upon copyrights. This is similar to what the US is...
View ArticleHackers Claim They Can Unban Banned PS3s While Banning Unmodded PS3s
We recently noted that Sony had announced plans to ban any jailbroken PS3 from the PlayStation Network, because Sony apparently wants to punish people who want to put back features that Sony...
View ArticleEA: Banned From Forums? Can't Play Single-Player Game Either
Tom Landry was the first of a bunch of you to send in the news that EA has taken forum banning to a new level. Obviously forums ban people all the time for whatever reason, but it appears that EA went...
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