Citizen Lab Occasional Paper #1, “Search Monitor Project: Toward a Measure of Transparency“, (mirror) has been released today. This report interrogates and compares the censorship practices of the search engines provided by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! for the Chinese market along with the domestic Chinese search engine Baidu. It is based on tests conducted between [...]
June 18th 2008 
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Microsoft now has a censorship notification in the censored version of the search engine live.com that they provide for the Chinese market. The notification appears when search are made for particular keywords, however, the notification is not displayed when searches are restricted to censored domains. (See Degrading Transparency: Comparing Google, Yahoo and Microsoft for past [...]
May 13th 2008 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
Wired reports that a health services search engine funded by the US Government blocks searches for the word “abortion” because of the possibilty that funding could be denied for project that “actively promote abortion”:
Called Popline, the search site is run by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Maryland. It’s funded by the [...]
April 6th 2008 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
Wired reports that the USAF is blocking any URLs with “blog” in them.
AFNOC has imposed bans on all sites with “blog” in their URLs, thus cutting off any sites hosted by Blogspot. Other blogs, and sites in general, are blocked based on content reviews performed at the base, command and AFNOC [...]
March 8th 2008 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
Recently, Microsoft’s Bill Gates stated that in the end Internet censorship will not work. He suggested that resistance to Internet censorship will be “driven by business requirements” because “[r]estrictions on free speech will curtail business activity, and so commercial forces will work against censorship.” This is interesting because on one hand companies such as Microsoft [...]
February 28th 2008 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
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