In democracies and authoritarian countries alike, efforts have been made by governments around the world to shut down Web sites, silence bloggers, filter out certain words or censor negative information. Our roundup of web censorship in 2011: In the

By ThosPayne The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House and The Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate try to make it harder for web sites to sell or distribute pirated copyrighted material, such as movies and music, as well as physical goods such as

AMARILLO, Texas – Imagine not being able to "Google" something or look up something on Wikipedia. Some are saying two anti-piracy bills congress is considering could make that a reality and people, nationwide, are speaking out. Wikipedia is taking part

The Appeals Court held that such censorship violates the First Amendment. Several justices wanted to protect children from "indecency," which has no definition, and on that score alone they would violate the First Amendment.

Have you been paying attention to all the hubbub online about the proposed U.S. legislation (SOPA/PIPA) that threatens internet freedom? I wrote about it last week over on WordPress.org, but the gist is this: there's a bill in the