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The 2008 Beijing Olympics have brought China's existing internet filtering practices into the spotlight. Check out our China coverage page for up-to-date information on what's going on in China.

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Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering, published by MIT Press, is the first global survey of Internet filtering. The book documents and analyzes Internet filtering practices in over three dozen countries, offering the first rigorously conducted study of this accelerating trend. Look for it at your local bookstore, and browse the results from the study in our country profiles and regional overviews.

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Facebook is unblocked in Tunisia by presidential order
Internet users in Tunisia were able to access the social networking Web site facebook today after it was blocked by the country's ISPs last month without giving any reason. Interestingly, the President of Tunisia Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali himself ordered the...
Turkey and YouTube: A Contentious Relationship
Turkey has a contentious relationship with popular video-sharing site YouTube. Blocked for the first time in early 2007, YouTube was intermittently available for most of 2007, only to be banned again in January of 2008. Each time, the...
Italy blocks The Pirate Bay, inadvertantly increasing traffic to the site
On July 14, the International Herald Tribune reported that an Italian judge had ordered all ISPs in that country to filter access to The Pirate Bay, one of the world's most popular file-sharing sites. The Pirate Bay, based in Sweden, allows...
Political website Malaysia Today reported blocked amidst crackdown on bloggers
The independent website Malaysiakini.com, reportedly the country’s most popular alternative news source, has announced that the political website Malaysia Today has been blocked by order of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC). On its home page, Malaysia...

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