Boing Boing on MSNOpinion

The NYT is blocking the Internet Archive. That's a mistake.

The New York Times has started blocking the Internet Archive's web crawlers, going beyond standard robots.txt rules to cut ...
NBC Los Angeles

How Russia reins in internet by blocking websites and isolating it from the world

YouTube videos that won't load. A visit to a popular independent media website that produces only a blank page. Cellphone internet connections that are down for hours or days. Going online in Russia ...

Cloudflare appeals Piracy Shield fine, hopes to kill Italy’s site-blocking law

Cloudflare hopes for EU action. Cloudflare said it met with AGCOM in 2024 to discuss Piracy Shield’s flaws and proposed different methods “that wouldn’t break the Internets ...
Al-Monitor on MSN

Souped-up VPNs play 'cat and mouse' game with Iran censors

Iranians are managing to get online during the current war with the US and Israel despite drastic censorship and frequent blackouts, throwing the spotlight on to providers of tools such as VPNs ...

"Network blocking is never going to be the solution" – Cloudflare slams anti-piracy tactics

Increasingly, countries, especially in Europe, have been enforcing strict measures lately to halt the spread of pirated ...
Yahoo

How Russia reins in the internet by blocking websites and isolating it from the rest of the world

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An activist holds a sign reading, "For Russia without censorship. Orwell wrote a dystopia, not an instruction manual,” referring ...