Since the Senate approved the new FISA bill, the blogosphere has been in a state of upheaval, declaring it an infringement on the Bill of Rights. NPR recently reported that liberal and conservative bloggers have joined forces to...

Congress is considering new legislation to prevent US companies from assisting the censorship and surveillance regimes of so-called Internet-Restricting Countries (IRCs): China, Iran, and so forth. On balance, the Global Online Freedom Act would probably help companies make smarter decisions...

An increasing number of American companies are being asked to obey censorship and surveillance laws in China that run contrary to free speech and privacy guarantees in the United States. These companies have been asked to monitor Internet users' activities, to give...

Free wireless broadband has been a goal of academics, activists, and politicians for years, and M2Z, a new start-up led by former FCC official John Muleta might give it to them. Unfortunately, it will not be the broadband...

Earlier this month, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission released a report , addressing their efforts to build broadband access. So far, recent efforts have centered around auctioning off portions of the wireless spectrum, and some with the requirement that the...

Last Friday, a California court ordered that domain name registrar Dynadot remove DNS information that routes Internet users to wikileaks.org, a site that provides a place for people to leak documents or blow whistles on corporations or governments. Our...

Introduction Though neither the United States nor Canada practices widespread technical Internet filtering at the state level, the Internet is far from “unregulated” in either state.1 Internet content restrictions take the form of extensive legal...

Google shareholders rejected anti-censorship resolution during the company's annual stockholder's meeting on May 10. This decision came after Google's board of directors recommended on April 4 that the company's shareholders vote down the anti-censorship proposal. The proposal stated that "technology companies...

On the second day of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), U.S. technology companies came under fire for selling products to China that have facilitated the government's censorship of the Internet and its crackdown on dissidents. While U.S. companies...

On July 25, 2005, Canadian Internet Service Provider (ISP) Telus blocked subscribers' access to a Web site set up by an employee labor union intended to publicize the union's views about its dispute with Telus. In addition, the OpenNet Initiative's (ONI) research...