2008… A good year for Press Freedom?

Press Freedom Round-up for 2008 shows drop in killings and arrests.

Reporters Without Borders have today 30/12/08 released their annual Press Freedom Round-up for 2008. The stats give an overview of the number of journalists killed, arrested, kidnapped or attacked as well as media outlets and websites that were shut down or censored.  
The figures make for better [...]

Digital Censorship

I came across an interesting piece of news on Financial times about censoring a page on Wikipedia.
http://www.ft.com/technology/digitalbusiness

Italy and Central Asia

A few things I have spotted recently:
Silvio Belusconi has plans to regulate the internet in Europe: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/03/berlusconi_g8_internet/
and in Kazakhstan a popular blogging site called livejournal.ru has been closed down:
http://www.neweurasia.net/2008/10/20/livejournal-blocked-in-kazakhstan/