The Egyptian government is now crowdsourcing censorship efforts. A new web page created by the country's National Telecommunications Registry Agency, allows citizens to report blasphemous websites (Arabic-language links). According to Alix Dunn of tech activism blog The Engine Room, the site is designed to help find pages showing a controversial anti-Islam film. The film, a low-budget American effort called The Innocence of Muslims, portrays Mohammed in extremely negative ways and sparked violent riots worldwide.

Visitors to the National Telecommunications Registry page are instructed to leave the offending URL on a page with a CAPTCHA link; government bureaucrats then review the page and block it if it leads to blasphemous content. This service follows on the heels of a failed attempt to ban YouTube in Egypt because of numerous uploaded copies of The Innocence of Muslims.

Want to watch porn in Singapore and hate that it has been banned? Now, there's an easier way, thanks to the "bros" at EDMW.

For decades now, Singaporeans have been complaining about the filters the Media Development Authority (MDA) set to make sure pornographic material on the web are out of reach. Just like the bottle of medicine your mother keeps on the highest level of that wooden shelf in your kitchen, out of sight, out of mind, right?

On its blacklist are Playboy, Penthouse, as well as a variety of video streaming sites like Redtube, Tube8, and Pornoxo. Less titillating content related to religious extremism are purportedly banned too.

Now, a developer has created a Chrome extension that allows users to bypass the censors. Called 'Go Away MDA', with MDA referring to the government's media authority, the extension essentially enables a VPN via a proxy.

Facebook has definitely become part of our daily lives and many of us use this social media freely. It already plays a huge role in our personal and professional relationships, and this role will only continue to grow. On Facebook, you can indeed share many things: photos, videos, articles, links with everyone. You can stay connected with friends in live chat or private messages. However, in some countries, censorship prevents access to this social media website, for political reasons or because a government wants to control its content, as is the case in Iran or Syria.

Facebook access being denied may also occur at work and at the university. In the United States, 92 percent of students uses Facebook and spend about 147 minutes on the site each week. Some students have gone to great lengths to foil the university's attempts to block them from accessing the sites on campus.

Internet activist group Anonymous took down IIPM websites, IIPM.in and IIPM.edu last Saturday. The sites were attacked as a reaction to the DOT order which asked Internet service providers (ISPs) to block over 73 urls which had articles that were critical of IIPM and its director Arindam Chaudhuri.

The attack on www.iipm.in also affected www.iipm.edu as this website internally links to www.iipm.in. Times of India reported that the websites were offline for nearly nine hours due to the attack

A center to control and censor the internet built in the Miramar neighborhood of the Cuban nation's capital could begin operations before the end of the year, various sources told DIARIO DE CUBA.

Officially, the building will house the Information Laboratory of the Interior Ministry (MININT).

Once it is finished, it will become the general headquarters and control point for all of the island's intranets.

Its mission will be to censor and monitor the flow of information that enters and leaves Cuba through the fiber-optic cable.