China shuts down website popular with Western NGOs
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Chinese police have shut down a Beijing-based Internet news site that counted the World Bank, UN agencies and a host of foreign aid groups as clients, its British founder said Wednesday.
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One of the Web's most popular file-sharing sites has shut down less than a week after Hollywood announced a flurry of lawsuits against operators of such Internet servers.
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Putin promises action It appears the Russian government has agreed to shut down popular music site AllofMP3.com in order to appease US objections to it joining the World Trade Organisation (WTO).â¦
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A California district court has shut down a controversial Web site in the U.S. that allows whistle blowers to post corporate and government documents online anonymously.
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China shut down 44,000 Web sites and arrested 868 people for Internet pornography last year, state media said Wednesday.
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China says it  will not allow any more cybercafes to open this year, in an attempt to cut down on "internet addiction".
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Thai authorities have shut down a political Web site that spoke out against the monarchy, the site's operator said Sunday, in another move to punish critics of Thailand's most revered institution.
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Politics: 19 September 2004, Sunday. Lithuania has temporarily shut down the website publishing information on the activities of Chechen rebel leaders.
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Science & environment: Technology group criticised after forcing a website which reported on the firm's activities to close down
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Yahoo will shut down Yahoo Photos, one of its two photo-sharing sites, to focus its efforts on its Flickr site.
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A furious China has shut down over 1,600 Internet cafes and arrested people in a bid to curb the menace of content which is harmful to public morality.
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China has closed 1,600 Internet cafes and fined operators a total of 100 million yuan (US$12 million) for letting children play violent games and for other violations, the government said Saturday.
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A California district court has shut down a controversial Web site in the U.S. that allows whistle blowers to post corporate and government documents online anonymously.A site known as Wikileaks.org has been taken offline in the U.S. due to a court order from the U.S. District Court in San Francisco. However, the site remains online in other countries, including Belgium and Germany.The order in the U.S. came after a Swiss bank, Julius Baer, earlier this month filed a complaint against the site and San Mateo, California-based Dynadot, Wikileaks&#39; domain-name registry, for posting several hundred of the bank&#39;s documents.Some of those documents allegedly reveal that Julius Baer was involved in offshore money laundering and tax evasion in the Cayman Islands for customers in several countries, including the U.S.The court ordered that &quot;Dynadot shall immediately clear and remove all DNS hosting records for the wikileaks.org domain name,&quot; according to court documents. It also said that Dynadot should prevent the domain name from resolving to the wikileaks.org Web site or any other Web site or server other than a blank park page until further notice.A spokesman for Julius Baer could not be reached for comment Monday.According to its Web site, the purpose of Wikileaks, founded in 2006, is to develop &quot;an uncensorable system for untraceable mass document leaking and public analysis.&quot;Wikileaks has been plagued by controversy since its inception, coming under fire from institutions whose confidential documents have been posted on the site and from critics who have questioned the motives of the site&#39;s founders. Still, others have praised the site for supporting the free dissemination of information.Wikileaks posted a press statement on its site about the U.S. order, calling it &quot;clearly unconstitutional&quot; and said it &quot;exceeds its jurisdiction.&quot;
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Wikipedia's English site is again blocked in China--possibly due to upcoming Communist Party Congress.
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Government says it shut down 44,000 internet pornography websites last year
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British and Dutch police said they shut down Tuesday the website OiNK, the world's biggest source of pirated pre-release chart albums.
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A U.S.-funded non-governmental organization that trains journalists has been effectively shut down and its director has left Russia amid criminal prosecution her lawyers said Friday was part of a government campaign against NGOs.