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A court order has been issued in favour of the Football Association Premier League Ltd obligating ISPs in the UK to block all access to streaming services that are not authorised to stream live matches on grounds of copyright infringement.

After receiving requests from the government of Thailand, Facebook has agreed today (May 09, 2017) to block/restrict any access to local content on its website that violates laws in the kingdom of Thailand.

In an interesting and even more ironic turn of events, China gets to taste its own medicine as Russia blocks the Chinese giant mobile messaging application, "WeChat" for failure to comply with certain Russian federal laws.

As if online censorship and online surveillance are not enough, now Russia plans to up its game on the very services that are used to bypass these restrictions. These services include VPNs, proxies, mirror sites, etc.

As the tension in Kashmir rises, the Indian government has responded by imposing a 1-month ban on 22 social media websites (including Facebook, Twitter and What'sapp) after several videos of police brutality against Kashmiri protesters went viral on social media websites. Click for more information.

Wikipedia is the most popular online encyclopedia on the internet. The colossal online reference receives more than millions of hits on a daily basis. Unfortunately, Wikipedia has been blocked in Turkey by the Turkish government today (Saturday, April 29, 2017) at 8:00 a.m. (Turkey's local time). Click for more information.

Despite Australia's move to mobilise its metadata retention bill earlier this month which obligates all telecoms and internet service providers to start keeping metadata logs of their users, Wangle Technologies has launched on April 20th what is called Australia's first compliant VPN service provider. Click for more about Wangle VPN.

Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) has reportedly instructed the Ministry of Commerce and Investment to set a ban on prepaid CASHU cards. Fearing that it could be misused for money laundering and terror funding, SAMA has voiced concerns over inability to properly monitor transactions via CASHU. Even though in a blog post dated July 15th, CASHU has denied the news “The company has stated that they are working with Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency “SAMA” to provide the h...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=171uKQ1Dv3c According to TurkeyBlocks, an impartial digital transparency monitoring network, Turkey has banned access to popular social media platforms: Facebook and Twitter along with video sharing website: YouTube and instant messaging application: WhatsApp nationwide since Friday November 4th 1:20 am local time. VoIP app: Skype and photo sharing app: Instagram have shortly followed. The mentioned applications and websites have been reported...

The Australian government passed a law obligating all Australian telecommunication companies and internet service providers, such as: Telstra and Optus to store their users' metadata logs for as long as 2 years without their customer's approval or a legal warrant. Click for more details.