#imweekly: May 21, 2013
Accidental, secret blocking of 1200 websites worries Internet users in Australia; two Internet blackouts in two weeks in Syria; disruptions to Internet and SMS in advance of Iranian presidential elections.
Technical Filtering
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Sex, Drugs, and Political Speech in Russia
Earlier this month, Russia’s new Internet censorship bill – designed to block content “containing [child] pornography or extremist ideas, or promoting suicide or use of drugs” – went into effect. Russian netizens are watching closely to see whether this new law will be applied narrowly or broadly, and how it will ultimately affect the freedom of Russia’s Internet.