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China to Scan Text Messages to Spot âUnhealthy Contentâ
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| As the Chinese government expands what it
| calls a campaign against pornography,
| cellular companies in Beijing and Shanghai
| have been told to suspend text services to
| cellphone users who are found to have sent
| messages with âillegal or unhealthy
| content,â state-run news media reported
| Tuesday.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/world/20text.html?src=twt&twt=nytimestech
Commentary: Are China's demands for Internet 'self-discipline' spreading to the West?
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| Every year in China, Internet executives
| are officially rewarded for their
| "patriotism."
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| Last November in Beijing, I sat in a large
| auditorium festooned with red banners and
| watched Robin Li, the CEO of Google's main
| competitor, Baidu, parade onstage with
| executives from 19 other companies to
| receive the 2009 "China Internet Self-
| Discipline Award."
|
| The rhetoric was all about the "strength
| and confidence of the Chinese Internet" and
| "harmonious and healthy Internet
| development." The reality is: China's
| annual "self discipline" award is for
| private sector censorship.
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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/opinion/story/82469.html
Four convicted in Vietnam for promoting democracy
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| A Vietnamese court today convicted four
| activists of trying to overthrow the
| communist government and sentenced them to
| up to 16 years in prison for promoting
| multiparty democracy.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/20/vietnam-lawyer-western-ideas
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
Why the Kankakee County Farm Bureau hates net neutrality
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| The Kankakee County Farm Bureau wants to
| stop net neutrality. So does the Erie
| Neighborhood House, along with Downtown
| Springfield Inc, Big Brothers/Big Sisters
| of Will and Grundy Counties, and the mayor
| of North Chicago.
|
| The organizations all share several things:
| they are located in Illinois, they want the
| FCC to focus on broadband adoption rather
| than net neutrality, and... they all have
| connections to AT&T.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/01/why-the-kankakee-county-farm-bureau-hates-net-neutrality.ars
Italian Courts, latest score: Berlusconi 1; YouTube 0
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| The Italian court today struck a significant
| blow in favour of Mediaset, the broadcaster
| controlled by Silvio Berlusconi, and against
| YouTube.
|
| [...]
|
| No doubt lawyers in other jurisdictions are
| already sharpening their writs in pursuit of
| YouTube - in the meantime, the Viacom v
| YouTube litigation continues to wend its way
| through the New York courts, with no sign of
| an imminent conclusion.
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http://the1709blog.blogspot.com/2009/12/italian-courts-latest-score-berlusconi.html
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