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Russian Wikipedia shuts down in protest of Internet censorship bill

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, seen here in January 2012, has denounced a legislative bill that would allow Moscow to block access to blacklisted websites. Navalny said the legislation would "move the Internet in the direction of the Zombie Box" -- a slang term for Kremlin-controlled television. (AFP Photo/Kirill Kudryavtsev)

The Russian-language Wikipedia website shut down for a day Tuesday and symbolically blacked out its logo in protest at a bill that would allow the state to block access to blacklisted websites. “Imagine a world without free knowledge,” it said in a statement on its otherwise white main page, saying…

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House stages cheerleading session for Internet censorship bill

Pro-piracy artwork. Photo: Flickr user altemark.

A bill that would allow corporations and the U.S. government to create and maintain a massive blacklist of websites accused of copyright infringement got its first serious hearing before a House committee today, but it turned out to be little more than a cheerleading session for sponsors of the legislation.…

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Will Internet censorship bill be pushed through lame-duck Congress?

A bill giving the government the power to shut down Web sites that host materials that infringe copyright is making its way quietly through the lame-duck session of Congress, raising the ire of free-speech groups and prompting a group of academics to lobby against the effort. The Combating Online Infringement…

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