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Seems, governments are all the same everywhere, they must get a high off controlling what you can do say or see on the web.  The Australian government is finally introducing th system of filtering content on the net we had reported earlier, where there are blacklists for illegal stuff and inappropriate content for children.
Bad thing [...]

United Nations: G-d Bless Censorship
A perennial favorite of the United Nations has come back like a bit of undigested beef. A non-binding resolution* to “Combat the Defamation of Religion” has been passed again. This censorious old chestnut has been passed a number of times previously, according to Fox News (”The Al-Jazeera of the U.S.”). If [...]

GMA News, reports that Raja Petra Kamaruddin has been sentenced to two years imprisonment under a tough security law that could keep him in jail indefinately.
The site says..
Online commentator Raja Petra Raja Kamarudin, known for his anti-government views, was already in police custody and was served a detention order Monday night, said his lawyer Malik [...]

Update: A Thai member wrote to say Blogger.com (blogspot) has been blocked also. But Bankokbuddy wrote that it had been unblocked. Can anyone tell us what the situation is currently?
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The Thai Ministry for Information, Communication and Technology has ordered more than 1200 sites shut down due to “violation of the computer crime act and specifically [...]

The online portal Malaysia Today has been blocked by the
Malaysia largest ISP TMNET on orders from the Malaysia Communication and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) as such overseas visitors and non TMNET subscribers can access the site but those using TMNET can not. 
A MCMC official is quoted thus: 
“It is being blocked because we found that some of [...]

Criticism seems to be something lots of people can not stand, the Vallejo City Manager has barred city employees from access two blogs that report on the city fall into bankruptcy.
 SF Gate, San Francisco Chronicle says
City Manager Joseph Tanner on Monday added the Vallejo Times Herald’s local news blog and the Vallejo Is Burning Web site [...]

Google has been ordered to unmask the identity of an anonymous blogger in India in a defamation suit by a Gremach Infrastructure Equipment and Projects Ltd. 
In their suit Gremach states that the blogger has been on a ‘hate campaign’ and wants Google to unmask the blogger going by the name, ‘Toxic Writer’.  Google in turn [...]