GitHub Blocks ‘Suicide Manuals’ To Get Unblocked In Russia
Manuals are meant to troll the government, claim some.
Latest: Apple Purges Confederate Flags, But Leaves Swastikas And Nazis Alone
Apple’s inconsistent App Store rules are hard for developers to follow.
Apple Should Not Censor The NRA’s “Practice Range” App
A group called the Courage Campaign wants to get the NRA’s “Practice Range” app unpublished from the App Store. Essentially, the activist group is asking for Apple to censor the NRA.
Four Months Later, Apple Still Censoring Drone Strike App
The news cycle may have forgotten about the Drone+ controversy but many – including one member of Congress – are still concerned about Apple’s app censorship policies. The app’s developer is planning to resubmit it again soon.
Russia’s New Censorship Law Diminishes the Entire Internet
Russia’s new Web blacklist is only the most recent of an alarming series of authoritarian moves to muzzle networked communications. National governments bent on censorship are eating away at the global, public Internet.
Ethiopia Sentences U.S. Blogger to Life in Prison
The Federal High Court in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa sentenced expatriate journalist and blogger Elias Kifle to life in prison yesterday. Kifle is the editor of the Washington D.C.-based blog, Ethiopian Review. He was sentenced in absentia and remains in the United States.
It was originally reported that he could receive the death…