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By: Roxana FarahmandDate: 17 May 2011Categories: United States of AmericaThe United States is simultaneously embarking on a $19 million project to target Internet censorship and considering new legislation that will require search engines to censor results for websites allegedly engaged in piracy.0 comment(s)
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By: Roxana FarahmandDate: 11 May 2011Categories: United States of America, SurveillanceThe Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court approved 100 percent of the government’s requests to electronically monitor suspected foreign “agents” or terrorists in the United States in 2010, according to a two-page report released by the Justice Department.
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By: Roxana FarahmandDate: 09 May 2011Categories: Saudi Arabia, LegislationKing Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has issued a new Royal Decree introducing sweeping restrictions on the country’s media, with considerable fines and even closure of news organizations that “undermine national security.”
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By: Roxana FarahmandDate: 06 May 2011Categories: ChinaThe General Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China announced Wednesday the establishment of the State Internet Information Office (SIIO), a department that will oversee the supervision of the Internet.
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By: Roxana FarahmandDate: 05 May 2011A meeting held in February by a working party of the European Union has gained widespread criticism after minutes from the meeting, published this week, revealed plans for a "single secure European cyberspace."
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By: Roxana FarahmandDate: 28 Apr 2011Categories: Iran, Arrests and legal actionIran has been dubbed the "least free" country in terms of internet freedom in a new report from Freedom House.
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By: Roxana FarahmandDate: 22 Apr 2011Amid heavy scrutiny, Facebook is considering partnering with Chinese search engine Baidu to launch a new social networking site.
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By: Roxana FarahmandDate: 07 Nov 2010A group of more than 75 law school professors wrote a letter to President Obama this past week calling for increased transparency regarding ongoing negotiations on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). The talks, which have been in progress since June 2008, aim to establish an international framework that improves the enforcement of existing intellectual property right laws by creating improved international standards for actions against large-scale infringements of intellectual property.
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By: Roxana FarahmandDate: 22 Oct 2010Groups opposed to an amending a Massachusetts obscenity law targeting electronic communications argued their case in front of US district judge Rya Zobel this past Tuesday. The internet content providers and free speech advocates filed a request for a preliminary injunction banning the state of Massachusetts from enforcing an amendment passed earlier this year that would make it illegal to send “matter harmful to minors” through electronic communications.