- Wikileaks hit by denial-of-service attack, turns to Amazon hosting…
- …but Amazon drops the site following pressure from a U.S. senator.
- Google extends its https encryption to YouTube, making video blocking harder.
- Censorship of the Net directly related to how authoritarian a regime is, claims a study.
- Venezuala’s telecom regulator proposes stronger takedown powers over Internet content.
- Thailand’s technology minister says “blacklisting [websites] doesn’t work.”
- UK police seek powers to suspend web domains if there are “reasonable grounds to believe they are being used to commit a crime,” even before a warrant or trial.
