Online reputation management: the practice of monitoring the Internet reputation of a person, brand or business, with the goal of suppressing negative mentions entirely, or pushing them lower on search engine results pages to decrease their visibilit...
In late November, Reuters reported Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google Inc, as forecasting that the rise of social media in China will lead to liberalization. "You won't be able to stop it”, he stated, “even if you don'...
31 Dec 2013
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The Internet has expanded the ability for online users to communicate, participate, engage, and share. Despite rapid technological advances, users continue to experience censorship, infringements on their freedom of speech, surveillance, Internet dis...
3 Oct 2012
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You write something about me and post it on the web. I don't like it. I petition Google to take it down. I'm successful ... or I'm not. From June to December 2011, Hungary made 154 requests to remove content from the Web - and failed each...
20 Jul 2012
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The following is the podcast of the April webinar on 'Illegal online content and liability of Internet intermediaries: Why not shoot the messenger?' The webinar, which took place on 24 April, was hosted by Vladimir Radunovic. The summary is a...
24 Apr 2012
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His own personal website censored by government, his car vandalised, and his supporters’ initiatives blocked. Yet, he found a unique way of circumventing the censorship. He transferred all the content from his website and from many other websit...
19 Apr 2012
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[Update] Scroll down to the section 'Also of Interest' below to read the webinar digest, where you can also listen to or download an audio recording of the webinar, and view/download the webinar presentation.
Governments try to use intermed...
24 Apr 2012
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