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Clinton report warns human rights are online too
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| An annual report by the US State Department
| has found dictators and repressive
| governments around the world are making sure
| they have as much control over their
| citizens when they're online as they do the
| rest of the time.
|
| The United States annual report on human
| rights might include a look at internet
| access and censorship but its real focus is
| good old-fashioned torture, wrongful arrest,
| censorship and police brutality. Not that
| the US has done anything to promote or make
| such behaviour acceptable of course.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/12/human_rights_internet/
Berman Working On Net Freedom Bill
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| House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman
| Howard Berman, D-Calif., said Thursday that
| he is working on his own legislation aimed
| at bolstering global Internet freedom.
|
| Berman said he is still working out the
| details and plans to work with Rep. Chris
| Smith, R-N.J., on the legislation. Smith has
| introduced his own bill, known as the Global
| Online Freedom Act, which would require the
| State Department to set up an Office of
| Global Internet Freedom and compile an
| annual list of Internet-restricting
| countries. The measure also would require
| U.S. information technology and
| communications firms to store personally
| identifiable information outside of
| Internet-restricting countries and report
| when countries ask them to censor, block or
| restrict access to information.
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http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2010/03/berman-working-on-net-freedom.php
NZ internet filter goes live - gov forgets to tell public
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| Tech Liberty is also concerned by the
| expansion of government powers that
| thefilter represents. It entrenches the
| principle that the government can set up a
| new censorship scheme and block material
| with no reference to existing law. Worse,
| the filter list stays secret, in contrast to
| the censorship regime that operates in
| respect of other media, where the Chief
| Censor must publish decisions banning
| offensive material.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/12/new_zealand_internet_filter/
Net filter causes IT industry vote swing
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| The mandatory Internet filtering scheme
| could sway votes against the Rudd Government
| when the IT industry hits the polling booths
| at the Federal election.
|
| Results from Whirlpoolâs 2009 Australian
| Broadband Survey of 23,683 verified
| responses found 92.6 per cent of respondents
| do not support the Federal Governmentâs
| mandatory Internet content filtering scheme,
| citing concerns that it will block
| legitimate information, create a false sense
| that the Internet is safe among parents, and
| the possibly be abused by future
| governments.
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http://www.techworld.com.au/article/338553/net_filter_causes_it_industry_vote_swing?fp=2&fpid=1&rid=1
ITU report backs Rudd Government telecoms policy
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| The International Telecommunication Union
| has given broad support to the Rudd
| Government's telecommunications policy of
| funding the NBN in parallel with a
| tightening of regulation, in a wide-ranging
| report looking at telecommunications
| regulatory reform worldwide.
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http://www.itwire.com/it-policy-news/government-tech-policy/37470-itu-report-backs-rudd-government-telecoms-policy
Anti-filter flash mob planned to raise Internet filter concerns
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| An online activist group will use a flash
| mob on April Fools Day to raise its concerns
| about the Internet content filter to the
| general public.
|
| The Sydney Anti-Filter Coalition, one of
| many splinter groups opposed to the Federal
| Governmentâs plans to provide a mandatory
| ISP-level internet filter, is urging its
| supporters to gather in Sydneyâs central
| business district for a flash mob event.
| Participants will wear gags and hand out
| information to the general public.
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http://www.techworld.com.au/article/338902/anti-filter_flash_mob_planned_raise_internet_filter_concerns?fp=2&fpid=1&rid=1
Net filter unworkable, games a threat to human liberty: Hockey
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| Shadow treasurer Joe Hockey has slammed the
| Federal Governmentâs proposal for mandatory
| ISP-level filtering.
|
| In a presentation at Melbourneâs Grattan
| Institute, Hockey said the proposal opened
| the possibility of function-creep whereby
| future governments could censor additional
| material once the filter infrastructure was
| in place.
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http://www.techworld.com.au/article/339401/net_filter_unworkable_games_threat_human_liberty_hockey?fp=2&fpid=1&rid=1
Hockey slams âunworkableâ internet filter
http://www.itwire.com/it-industry-news/strategy/37527-hockey-slams-unworkable-internet-filter
EFA welcomes Hockey stance on Internet filter
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| Electronic Frontiers Australia has welcomed
| remarks made by Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey
| concerning proposed mandatory Internet
| filtering.
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http://www.itwire.com/it-policy-news/government-tech-policy/37551-efa-welcomes-hockey-stance-on-internet-filter
YouTube gives Bahraini youth window to world
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| An outspoken defendant of free speech,
| Esra'a has in the past been subjected to
| threats and harassment. As such she has
| asked CNN not to publish her image.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/03/12/esra.interview.bahrain.youth/index.html
Privacy concerns hinder 'real-time Web' creation, developers say
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| "A lot of this data that people would like
| to make available, they wouldn't necessarily
| want to make available to everyone," said
| Jack Moffitt, chief technical officer for
| Collecta, a search engine that aims to give
| real-time results. "I think we'll be
| wrestling with privacy issues around real-
| time data for a long time."
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http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/13/sxswi.real.time.web/index.html
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