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Clinton praised for Internet freedom speech
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| Clinton's announcement that fighting
| Internet censorship would be a top priority
| for the Department of State is welcome news
| for dissidents in Iran, said Ashraf, co-
| founder of AccessNow.org, a group focused
| on providing Internet tools allowing
| freedom of expression.
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http://www.techworld.com.au/article/333472/clinton_praised_internet_freedom_speech?fp=2&fpid=1&rid=1
1984 film classification law gets reboot
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| Anyone hoping that 2010 was the year when
| they could produce smut or violence for
| direct release to DVD, without undergoing
| the tiresome process of having their work
| checked and classified by the British Board
| of Film Classification, can hit pause now.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/21/film_classification/
Polish Internet Users Against the Censorship of the Net
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| Polish government wants to enforce Internet
| filtering to eliminate online gambling and
| child pornography. Everything for the
| benefit of our children, as this is the
| argument which is hard to stay against.
|
| However, a notable group of Polish lawyers,
| journalists, academics, enterpreneurs,
| politicians and bloggers think otherwise
| and signed a letter (written by myself,
| btw) to President of Poland, Lech
| KaczyÅski, asking him to turn the law down
| (in Polish legal system, president has the
| right to do this, but the parliament can
| then overcome presidentâs opposition if 2/3
| of the delegates vote for it).
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http://polishlinux.org/poland/polish-internet-users-against-the-censorship-of-the-net/
Four More Inducted Into The Streisand Effect Hall Of Shame
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| For the record, here are the EFF's four
| latest inductees:
|
| * Peabody Energy, for issuing
| outstandingly spurious trademark claims
| against a spoof site criticizing their
| "clean coal" group;
| * Yahoo, for an impressive attempt to
| return a cat to the bag after a leak of
| its guide to snooping services for law
| enforcement was posted to a
| whistleblower site;
| * Perez Hilton and the Miss Universe
| Organization for endeavoring to stop a
| non-profit from airing an ad commenting
| on a public same-sex marriage
| controversy initiated by their videos;
| and
| * Universal Music Group, for attempting
| to muzzle online criticism of the
| rapper Akon.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100120/1706147841.shtml
Recent:
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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