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The most ambitious net censorship project since China's Great Firewall is no more: Pakistan's Ministry of Information Technology has indicated that they are canceling plans for a 50 million+ URL net filtering regime.

The most ambitious net censorship project since China's Great Firewall is no more: Pakistan's Ministry of Information Technology has indicated that they are canceling plans for a 50 million+ URL net filtering regime. Earlier this week, the Pakistani government announced that they were canceling plans to build a national Internet filter similar to China's “Great Firewall.” The massive firewall would have blocked up to 50 million URLs and, if completed, would have been one of the largest online censorship projects in history

U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ruled federal mandate violates free speech

Tobacco companies had sued FDA saying forced labels violated free speech

Proposed warning labels violate constitutional free speech protection, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon rules

A new Knight Foundation study finds that using Facebook and Tumblr leads teens to a greater appreciation of the First Amendment--but their teachers think unbridled free speech for teens online isn't such a good thing. Teens hate censorship--at least if they're using social media

Last week, BART blocked mobile phone services for several hours to disperse a demonstration they claimed was going to turn violent. Was it legal? The FCC is now asking

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Syrian democracy activists on Twitter have found themselves threatened and spammed by mystery accounts. Now one prominent opposition figure claims the Syrian government may be involved. Protests in Syria are getting intense

The Ugandan government, facing social unrest over high food and fuel prices, will order its ISPs to block Twitter and Facebook.