- Egypt moves to block online pornography Egypt's public prosecutor has ordered that government authorities must take appopriate steps to block online pornography in the Arab Republic in order to preserve the "values and traditions of the Egyptian people".
- Ordering ISPs to block illegal websites is not effective, says European Commission A report on online gambling released by the European Commission on Tuesday has described the blocking of websites by Internet Service Providers as "easily circumvented".
- UK ISPs forced to censor access to The Pirate Bay The UK High Court has today ruled that internet service providers (ISPs) operating in the UK must censor access to file sharing site The Pirate Bay.
- French president joins Twitter, parody accounts suspiciously suspended Twitter is being accused of internet censorship after four parody accounts in honour of French president Nicolas Sarkozy were allegedly suspended under suspicious circumstances - the same day Sarkozy became officially represented on the service.
- Tweets must continue to flow, in some countries Twitter has announced that it will begin to censor tweets on a country-by-country basis, revealing the company's intent to expand further internationally while adhering to various countries' "limits" on freedom of expression.