Threats to the Open Net: April 22, 2011

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* As Facebook explores a potential partnership with Chinese search engine Baidu, one of the company's lobbyists has said that the company is "allowing too much, maybe, free speech in countries that haven't experienced it before."

* The Ugandan government ordered the country's major ISPs to block Facebook and Twitter temporarily during recent protests against rising fuel and food prices. The event marks the second ever occasion of Internet filtering in the country.

* A Russian government spokesman announced that the country is looking to China and other countries for examples of how best to regulate the Internet. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin responded that Russia would not impose any filtering, saying, "I personally think that it is not possible to restrict anything."