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Italy proposes mandatory licenses for people who upload video
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| Italy proposes mandatory licenses for
| people who upload video
| Italy's Berlusconi regime, already known
| around the world as an enemy of free
| speech and popular access to the tools of
| communication, has now floated a proposal
| to require Italians to get an "uploader's
| license" in order to put any "moving
| pictures" on the Internet. The government
| claims that this is required as part of
| the EU's product placement disclosure
| rules, which is about as ridiculous
| assertion as I've heard this month.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/16/italy-proposes-manda.html
12 Trends to Watch in 2010
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| It's the dawn of a new year. From our
| perch on the frontier of electronic civil
| liberties, EFF has collected a list of a
| dozen important trends in law, technology
| and business that we think will play a
| significant role in shaping online rights
| in 2010.
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/trends-2010
Drawing the âonlineâ line on free speech
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| When and where do we draw the line on free
| speech?
|
| Thatâs âweâ as in you and I, and our
| fellow citizens â and the âwhereâ
| increasingly involves the Internet.
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http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/commentary.aspx?id=22473
Google Attacks Highlight the Importance of Surveillance Transparency
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| Ed posted yesterday about Google's
| bombshell announcement that it is
| considering pulling out of China in the
| wake of a sophisticated attack on its
| infrastructure. People more knowledgeable
| than me about China have weighed in on the
| announcement's implications for the future
| of US-Sino relations and the evolution of
| the Chinese Internet. Rebecca MacKinnon, a
| China expert who will be a CITP visiting
| scholar beginning next month, says that
| "Google has taken a bold step onto the
| right side of history." She has a roundup
| of Chinese reactions here.
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http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/tblee/google-attacks-highlight-importance-surveillance-transparency
Turkey Blocking More Than 3,000 Websites
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| The Organization for Security and
| Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a human
| rights watchdog, called on Turkey today to
| reform or abolish its restrictive Internet
| policy.
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| "At present, 3,700 Internet sites are
| blocked in Turkey, including YouTube,
| GeoCities, and Google sites," said Miklos
| Haraszti, an OSCE Representative on
| Freedom of the Media.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/01/18/turkey-blocking-more-than-3000-websites
Facebook users booted for hitting message limit
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| Some Facebook users sending messages about
| the Haitian earthquake may have been a bit
| dismayed at times this week to find that
| they'd been booted off the site for
| suspicion of spamming.
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http://www.techworld.com.au/article/332740/facebook_users_booted_hitting_message_limit?fp=2&fpid=1&rid=1
Recent:
Proposed Web video restrictions cause outrage in Italy
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| New rules to be introduced by government
| decree will require people who upload
| videos onto the Internet to obtain
| authorization from the Communications
| Ministry similar to that required by
| television broadcasters, drastically
| reducing freedom to communicate over the
| Web, opposition lawmakers have warned.
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http://www.thestandard.com/news/2010/01/15/proposed-web-video-restrictions-cause-outrage-italy
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