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  • US Targets Censorship by Repressive Regimes, Introduces New Anti-Piracy Bill
    By: Roxana Farahmand
    Date: 17 May 2011
    Categories: United States of America
    The United States is simultaneously embarking on a $19 million project to target Internet censorship and considering new legislation that will require search engines to censor results for websites allegedly engaged in piracy.
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  • Court Approves 100 Percent of 2010 Surveillance Requests
    By: Roxana Farahmand
    Date: 11 May 2011
    Categories: United States of America, Surveillance
    The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court approved 100 percent of the government’s requests to electronically monitor suspected foreign “agents” or terrorists in the United States in 2010, according to a two-page report released by the Justice Department.
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  • Saudi Arabia Tightens Media Restrictions
    By: Roxana Farahmand
    Date: 09 May 2011
    Categories: Saudi Arabia, Legislation
    King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has issued a new Royal Decree introducing sweeping restrictions on the country’s media, with considerable fines and even closure of news organizations that “undermine national security.”
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  • China Launches Agency to Oversee Internet Control
    By: Roxana Farahmand
    Date: 06 May 2011
    Categories: China
    The General Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China announced Wednesday the establishment of the State Internet Information Office (SIIO), a department that will oversee the supervision of the Internet.
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  • Proposed EU Internet Filtering Condemned by Civil Liberties Groups
    By: Roxana Farahmand
    Date: 05 May 2011
    Categories: Europe, Geolocational Filtering, Social filtering
    A meeting held in February by a working party of the European Union has gained widespread criticism after minutes from the meeting, published this week, revealed plans for a "single secure European cyberspace."
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  • Iran Ranked as World’s Worst Internet Oppressor
    By: Roxana Farahmand
    Date: 28 Apr 2011
    Categories: Iran, Arrests and legal action
    Iran has been dubbed the "least free" country in terms of internet freedom in a new report from Freedom House.
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  • Potential Facebook Venture Into China?
    By: Roxana Farahmand
    Date: 22 Apr 2011
    Categories: China, Asia, Geolocational Filtering, Social filtering
    Amid heavy scrutiny, Facebook is considering partnering with Chinese search engine Baidu to launch a new social networking site.
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  • Law professors, interest groups call for ACTA transparency
    By: Roxana Farahmand
    Date: 07 Nov 2010
    Categories: United States of America, United States/Canada, Legislation
    A group of more than 75 law school professors wrote a letter to President Obama this past week calling for increased transparency regarding ongoing negotiations on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). The talks, which have been in progress since June 2008, aim to establish an international framework that improves the enforcement of existing intellectual property right laws by creating improved international standards for actions against large-scale infringements of intellectual property.
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  • ACLU, Internet content providers oppose MA obscenity law on constitutional grounds
    By: Roxana Farahmand
    Date: 22 Oct 2010
    Categories: United States of America, United States/Canada, Legislation, Obscenity
    Groups opposed to an amending a Massachusetts obscenity law targeting electronic communications argued their case in front of US district judge Rya Zobel this past Tuesday. The internet content providers and free speech advocates filed a request for a preliminary injunction banning the state of Massachusetts from enforcing an amendment passed earlier this year that would make it illegal to send “matter harmful to minors” through electronic communications.
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