Copyright Directive legislation voted down by European Parliament

The EU has voted down controversial copyright legislation, but the war’s not over: a second vote is scheduled for September.

China vows to “clean the internet” in cybercrime crackdown, 15,000 arrested

The Ministry of Public Security in China said this week that 15,000 people have been arrested since the launch of a major anti-cybercrime operation called “cleaning the internet.”

Internet freedom weakens around the world

In its fifth annual study, Freedom House assessed developments in 65 countries that occurred between May 2013 and May 2014 and found that internet freedom is declining for the fourth consecutive year, with 36 of those countries seeing loss of freedom over the covered period.