UPDATE — In attempting to block access to YouTube, Pakistan ended up making YouTube inaccessible to everyone — not just everyone in Pakistan, but everyone! Martin A. Brown provides some of the technical details and a time line here (Thanks Steven!):
Just before 18:48 UTC, Pakistan Telecom, in response to government order (thanks nsp-sec-d) to block [...]
February 23rd 2008 
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The “magnify” component of the Search Monitor project attempts to match the top ten results from Google/Yahoo with the top ten results form the China-specific versions of Google/Yahoo in order to note the similarities and differences in terms of censored, returned (the website is in the top ten of the both the .com and .cn [...]
February 21st 2008 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
Finland’s filtering system, put in place to block access to images of child abuse (child pornography) is blocking sites that do not match this criteria. In addition to blocking an anti-censorship activism site, the filtering seems to be significantly overblocking. EFFi reports:
The censorship supposedly applies only to foreign web sites that are used to [...]
February 19th 2008 READ MORE 2 COMMENTS
The Search Monitor Project: China focuses on assessing the level of transparency with regard to the self-censorship practices of search engine companies as well as the mechanisms and effects of this political censorship. (For background information, see this and this.) The following is a step by step process of a search for “human rights” (人权). [...]
February 12th 2008 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
Search engines are increasingly censoring their results, often by geographic location, having a significant, negative impact on the right to freedom of expression. The most advanced cases of censoring political content is in search engines that market a version of their product in China. This project aims to expose and monitor the censoring practises of [...]
February 8th 2008 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
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