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Internet freedom under threat

Posted on March 8, 2010 by

The United States has a tradition of generally broad protection of freedom of speech, which has persisted in the Internet age.  Thus American courts have struck down most laws attempting to limit content on the Internet, including provisions of the … Continue reading →

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Google Supports Free Speech in China … but not elsewhere

Posted on February 3, 2010 by

Google has taken a firm position on censorship in China, yet, ironically, Google willingly and actively censors. It censors so as to conform to local laws, but it also censors deliberately and voluntarily by restricting speech on, for instance, YouTube … Continue reading →

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Consequences of the Google China conflict: Hillary Clinton for an open Internet

Posted on January 26, 2010 by

In an impassioned speech at the Newseum in Washington on January 21, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attacked countries who limit the free circulation of peaceful dissent and religious ideas on the Internet and those who use the Internet for … Continue reading →

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Google and the Snake

Posted on January 22, 2010 by

It is, literally, an old story. In the legend of the boy and the snake, a venomous snake asks a boy for help, and promises not to bite him. When the snake bites the boy despite his help, and the … Continue reading →

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Champions of free speech?: the Case of Google in China

Posted on January 21, 2010 by

When, a few years ago, Google agreed to China’s restrictions on the circulation of information and started google.cn, it claimed that “increased access to information for people in China and a more open Internet outweighed [Google's] discomfort in agreeing to … Continue reading →

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Website tracks online censorship reports

Posted on August 6, 2009 by

Having trouble accessing a website?  Suspect it might be more than just a faulty connection or technical malfunction? Visit Herdict.org, a website designed to track reports of censored web sites around the world.  There, you can report  anonymously that a … Continue reading →

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Skirting responsibility: Google CEO Eric Schmidt on internet censorship

Posted on July 1, 2009 by

On Monday, The Telegraph reported on Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s talk at the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival. In it, he chastised censorious governments, saying completely effective internet censorship was unattainable and governments trying to do so were doomed to fail. … Continue reading →

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The First Amendment and the Internet

Posted on January 9, 2009 by

Gene Policinski of the First Amendment Center sheds some light on the topic of internet censorship in a recent article in the North Country Gazette. He argues that, while the first amendment does not apply to private companies, privately owned … Continue reading →

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Internet Censorship

Posted on November 7, 2008 by

From Good Magazine. A beautifully-made video on international internet censorship. Two of the companies cited for supporting internet censorship systems – Microsoft and Google – have joined other companies and organizations to support the Global Network Initiative: The Initiative is … Continue reading →

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