Popular Tamil website 'blocked'
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A popular pro-Tamil website accuses the Sri Lankan government of blocking access to it.
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By Stephen Castle  One of Google's most popular services came under threat yesterday when a court banned the search engine from reproducing articles from Belgian newspapers and opened the door to similar challenges elsewhere in Europe.
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A pro-independence Chechen Web site was shut down by the Lithuanian government, officials said on Monday, two days after a message claiming responsibility for the school massacre in southern Russia was posted ...
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Recipes from the blog of an Indian housewife were used without permission on Yahoo's India's new Malayalam-language Web portal.
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Wikipedia's English site is again blocked in China--possibly due to upcoming Communist Party Congress.
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A Russian human rights Web site portal  has been attacked by unknown assailants, forcing it to close  down and move to a new address, the Web site said on Monday.
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China watchers, get your scorecards out: Google Inc.'s YouTube is blocked, Wikipedia is still blocked, but, for the moment, Google blog site Blogspot.com is available and some pictures from Yahoo Inc.'s Flickr photos can once again be viewed.
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TEHRAN -- Iran has blocked access to the popular video-sharing website YouTube.com, and a media rights group warned yesterday that Internet censorship in the Islamic state is on the rise.
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(InfoWorld) - Wikipedia's English site is blocked again in China, after over two months of being accessible, continuing a saga of on-again, off-again availability. Users in Shanghai and Beijing confirmed Wednesday and Thursday that they were no longer able to visit the site. Wikipedia's own account states that the block resumed on Aug. 31, although some users in China said the site has only been unavailable starting this week. China regularly blocks access to Web sites that it finds objectionable, including those dealing with politically sensitive subjects such as the Falun Gong religious cult and independence for Taiwan and Tibet, along with some pornographic sites. The Chinese government does not announce or comment on when a site is blocked or made available. Because the version of events or political views expressed on Wikipedia are not necessarily in line with those of the Chinese government, the government may be blocking access to the site. The current blocking may be related to the upcoming Communist Party Congress, which begins Oct. 15 in Beijing. Held once every five years, the meeting is the Chinese government's most important political gathering, used to create five-year plans, which are the bedrock of China's centrally-planned economy. It is also often used to reshuffle government positions or for leaders to consolidate their power. WhileÂ Wikipedia's English site is occasionally available, its Chinese-language sites are almost permanently blocked, although access is sometimes permitted for one or two days at a time. "Right now there seems to be an intensive government-mandated freeze on the Internet in China, particularly on Web sites with user-generated content," said Jeremy Goldkorn, editor of Danwei.org, a Beijing-based blog that covers China's media. "It seems that the attitude towards Web sites hosted abroad is also hostile right now, which may explain the latest block on Wikipedia." Â
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London, December 22: SuprNova.org, one of the Internet&#39;s most popular sites for finding links to download pirated movies, has been taken offline by its creator amid a legal crackdown by Hollywood&#39;s copyright cops.
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A video download site that had been exposed as a front for the MPAA to catch those who download copyrighted content, as well as those who may have already downloaded it, has been taken offline.
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Update Slammed for touting unavailable but unlicensed content
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Organisers forced to pull promotional video from website after film triggered seizures.
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Tiananmen anniversary photos apparently prompted government to restrict access to sharing site, Yahoo says.
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A Sri Lankan government minister was taken hostage by a TV station after he complained it had failed to cover one of his speeches. By John Plunkett
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Syria has stepped up its muzzling of the Internet, blocking access to a string of websites critical of the regime, including some run by leading dailies, a human rights group said on Saturday.
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'Offensive' video saga part 24 Thailand's powers that be are considering a new block on certain "offensive" YouTube material after last month lifting its ban on the site, Reuters reports.â¦