ICT magazine

President Barack Obama has spoken out against censorship in Shanghai, saying tough criticisms of political leaders should be allowed and the free flow of information on the Internet “should be encouraged”. At the start of his first visit to China, Obama said on Monday that crucial problems

By David ChazanBBC News, ParisA 27-year-old rapper from Normandy, nicknamed by some the "French Eminem", is at the centre of a political storm over censorship in France.OrelSan has seen 10 of his concerts ...

AT T says it has lifted a block it put on part of the notorious 4chan.org bulletin board. AT T says the block was a security move in response to a denial-of-service attack against one of its customers, but the incident has touched a nerve among those concerned about net ...

The TEDGlobal conference began its second day with views of the internet as a fragile network running on the kindness of strangers and as a force for spin and repressionThe second day of the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford began with contrasting optimistic and pessimistic ...

Watch the opening five minutes of the film version of Alan Moore's dystopian comic book. Plus, director Zack Snyder fights back at his critics and reveals how he almost cast Brad Pitt. Watchmen is out on DVD and Blu-ray on 27 JulyIt could have ...

• Twitterer amoiist caught up in police blog probe• Inquiry centres on murder 'libel' against officialsThe hundreds following amoiist on Twitter were used to his stream of messages. But they ended abruptly with two terse updates early yesterday morning."i have been arrested by ...

Considering China's demands to silence my film about Uighurs, it's no wonder so little is heard of their struggleLast week I was told by Richard Moore, director of the Melbourne International Film Festival, that the Chinese government had demanded ...

Universal Pictures will release a slightly shorter and marginally less explicit cut of the 18-certificate Sacha Baron Cohen comedy on 24 JulyAs if one Bruno was not enough for UK cinemagoers, the studio behind Sacha Baron Cohen's flouncing comedy creation is now poised to ...

Government goes from criticising Orelsan to defending him – after rapper is dropped from event in Socialist Ségolène Royal's regionHe is known as the French Eminem: a middle-class teacher's son from a dull town in lower Normandy who raps about the rural drug epidemic, ...

Government revokes over 200 radio licences and forces television channels to broadcast many of Chávez's speechesVenezuela's government has revoked the licences of more than 200 radio stations and forced satellite and cable television to broadcast many of President Hugo Chávez's speeches live.The government said ...

Government claims technology will curb access to pornography, but internet users say it blocks politically sensitive content and monitors behaviourChina's controversial plan to install Green Dam internet filtering software on all computers will go ahead despite being postponement, a government official told state media ...

We think there's more to be done on internet censorship - specifically, to point to the "grey areas" where we don't know enough about what governments do. Do you know?Our interactive map of internet censorship gives you some ...

• Beijing halts Green Dam filtering software plans• Climbdown comes after wave of online oppositionFor the netizens of the world's biggest online community, it was a rare victory. At the 11th hour, and with no proper explanation, the Chinese government, the most assiduous ...

• Beijing halts Green Dam filtering software plans• Climbdown comes after wave of online opposition For the netizens of the world's biggest online community, it was a rare victory. At the 11th hour, and with no proper explanation, the Chinese government, the ...

Pressure from bloggers and governments brings climbdown on compulsory censorship softwareIn a last-minute climbdown, the Chinese government announced today that it will delay the launch of censorship software that was supposed to have been sold in every computer from tomorrow.The postponement comes ...