freedom of speech

Spurred on by a lower court ruling, the Indian government has urged 21 companies, including technology behemoths Facebook and Google, to censor objectionable material hosted on their respective services. Many see the move by the Indian government to censor social media as a threat to freedom of expression. Instead of ...

The number of Chinese websites available to users fell dramatically last year after the government tightened controls on the internet, according to a new study by a leading state-run research institute.The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) said there were 1.91 million websites operating in China at the end of ...

Twitter has found itself yet again in court. This time its over the "publication" of the name a famous UK footballer who had a super-injunction: a super secret gag order, with the footballers lawyers now seeking to sue the California based micro-blogging site and tens of thousands of its users.What ...