Blocking and Filtering

Service	Description
"Bware, SMS unda ctrl".	Reporters Without Borders condemns China's new real-time surveillance system for SMS (mobile phone text) messages.
Anonymous leak technology criticised	Wikileaks, a proposed system enabling whistle-blowers and cyber-activists to post confidential documents anonymously from repressive regimes, has been criticised by the BBC's Bill Thompson for promising more than it can deliver, as the service prepares to go live.
Apple v. ThinkSecret : confidentiality of sources must be respected.	Reporters Without Borders call for online journalists, as well as journalist website operators and bloggers, to be accorded the same legal protections as journalists with the traditional press.
Attack prompts Bush website block.	The official re-election site of President George W Bush is blocking visits from overseas users for "security reasons".
Authorities block Neweurasia blog platform.	A website that hosts a network of blogs about Central Asia and the Caucasus has been inaccessible for several weeks. It is thought that local ISPs were orederd to block the Neweurasia.net domain name after it launched Russian and Uzbek-language versions.
Bill Gates gets 4 million emails a day.	Microsoft's chief executive said "Bill receives 4m pieces of email per day, most of it spam."
Blogger could go to prison for posting Jesus Cartoons	- Reporters Without Borders say that the Singaporean authorities are violating free expression and trying to foster self-censorship in the country’s blogosphere.
Call for laws to end web firms' complicity with Chinese censors.	Human Rights Watch has a 149pp report on how China keeps control of free thought on the net, including with co-operation from Microsoft, Skype, and search engines. Parliament's Foreign Affairs committee also denounced such collaboration as 'morally unacceptable', and HRW suggests ways of bringing pressure to bear. The report itself is also likely to be censored - read our mirror of it here.
China 'blocks Google news site'.	It is believed to extend greater censorship over the net than any other country in the world.
China censors Wikipedia.	The authorities are censoring Wikipedia in the same way that they censor thousands of websites with information that strays from the official Chinese propaganda, RSF report.