Journalists have been barred from the battle zone in Gaza, but they are given full access to sites in Israel hit by Hamas rockets.

The move to enforce a law that bans foreign companies from broadcasting in the country effectively bans Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Voice of America and the BBC.

The Chinese government has quietly begun preventing access again to Internet sites that it had stopped blocking during the Olympic Games.

When Clear Channel Communications tried to force a Web site to take down an audio recording, the recording soon popped up on dozens of other sites.

Mr. Landau called himself a “First Amendment guerrilla,” and used his education as a lawyer in advocacy for journalists around the country.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation said that it had improperly obtained the phone records of reporters for The New York Times and The Washington Post in the newspapers’ Indonesia bureaus in 2004.

As long as they do not threaten the Kremlin or its friends, it seems, Russian newspapers can say what they like.

The Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, once serving Soviet official propaganda, has reinvented itself as a tabloid, with huge success.

A flurry of intense and angry comments erupted on BoingBoing.net when it was discovered that the Web site had unpublished all references to the blogger Violet Blue.

In Hong Kong’s boisterous media, daily newspapers and local television news programs regularly carry photos and reports that would be banned on the Chinese mainland.