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  • India drops plans for government control of Internet
    By: Matt Lavigueur
    Date: 12 Mar 2012
    India drops U.N. proposal to create an international Internet regulatory committee.
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  • Campaign Group Names Belarus, Bahrain 'Internet Enemies'
    By: Matt Lavigueur
    Date: 12 Mar 2012
    Reporters Without Borders names Bahrain, Belarus "enemies of the Internet" following crackdowns on cyber dissidents in both countries.
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  • Huge Internet Blackout Threatened by Rogue Hacker Gang “Anonymous”
    By: Matt Lavigueur
    Date: 12 Mar 2012
    Internet hacker group "Anonymous" threatens impending blackout on March 31, 2012 in retaliation for FBI sting on several of the group's key members.
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  • Iran's leader sets up internet control group
    By: Matt Lavigueur
    Date: 09 Mar 2012
    Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has ordered the creation of an online oversight agency to be known as the Supreme Council of Cyberspace.
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  • UN's ITU Could Become Next Internet Freedom Threat
    By: Matt Lavigueur
    Date: 09 Mar 2012
    Countries such as Russia, China, North Korea, Iran are lobbying for the creation of an international Internet regulatory agency under the U.N., known as the International Telecommunications Union, raising some concerns for internatiponal online freedom.
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  • "A Time Bomb For Civil Liberties": France Adopts a New Biometric ID Card
    By: Matt Lavigueur
    Date: 09 Mar 2012
    French National Assembly passes bill requiring biometric identification cards for French citizens, raising concerns for privacy, civil liberties.
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  • How the wrong tweet in China 'may send you in a forced labor camp'
    By: Matt Lavigueur
    Date: 06 Mar 2012
    Chinese netizen who posted a false rumor online about a SARS outbreak has been sent to labor camp for re-education.
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  • Execution of web programmer in Iran may be imminent
    By: Matt Lavigueur
    Date: 21 Feb 2012
    Execution of a Canadian web programmer looms after the Toronto resident designed a program for uploading photos to the Internet that was then used by a different individual to upload pornography.
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  • Russia: Government Shuts HIV-Prevention Group's Website
    By: Matt Lavigueur
    Date: 09 Feb 2012
    The Russian government's anti-drug agency has ordered the banning of a public health site targeted towards HIV-prevention for discussing the addiction medicine methadone.
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  • Thousands Take to the Streets to Protest ACTA
    By: Matt Lavigueur
    Date: 30 Jan 2012
    Thousands across Europe protest ACTA bill.
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