Moreover, Tajikistan has announced plans to censor the Internet in general and Facebook in particular.
Across the Gulf, governments have relied on tools from American and Canadian companies to censor the Internet.
The US, Europe and others see these proposals as cover for Russia to further filter and censor the Internet.
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"I think they're absolutely mistaken, " Arizona Rep. Ted Vogt said of bloggers and civil liberties groups that said the bill would censor the Internet.
Tyrants still seek to censor the internet and monitor their subjects.
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Major online web hosting giant GoDaddy.com recently learned its own lesson in the power of a boycott after they announced their support for SOPA, a bill that critics say would effectively censor the internet.
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No one country owns the Internet and while Americans no longer have to worry about a Soviet attack, freedom loving people around the world do have to worry about those who seek to censor the Internet.
Prosecutors and civil plaintiffs insist they don't want to censor the Internet, and maintain the case is about enforcing Italy's privacy rules as well as ensuring large corporations do their utmost to block inappropriate content, or quickly delete it.
Yesterday it was made official that the Electronic Software Association (ESA) has thrown their full support behind SOPA, the controversial censor-the-internet-to-kill-piracy bill currently in the Senate, with its similarly minded counterpart, Protect IP, in the House.
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"Given the recent history that we've seen with respect to certain countries starting to censor the free flow of information over the Internet, we believe it really should be a top priority for our government, " says Pablo Chavez, Google's Washington policy counsel.
"Given the recent history that we've seen with respect to certain countries starting to censor the free flow of information over the Internet, we believe it really should be a top priority for our government, " says Pablo Chavez, Google's (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) Washington policy counsel.
Cuba's not a bad candidate for a competition among the Internet Censor World Championships.
The Americans -- and many open Internet advocates -- warned those proposals would be used to censor Internet users and would open the door to further disruptions to the open web.
This power grab has trade and broader implications too, as some governments driving this agenda want to use the expanded control to censor and filter Internet content.
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Some leaked proposals, for example, would authorize member nations, with U.N. blessing, to inspect and censor incoming and outgoing Internet traffic on the premise of monitoring criminal behavior, filtering spam, or protecting national security.
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Max Mosley is suing Google in France and Germany in an attempt to force the internet company to monitor and censor search results about his alleged sado-masochistic orgy.
In the early days of the Syrian uprising, Syria's top Internet service providers were using technology developed by Blue Coat to censor the Web and record traffic, the Journal reported in October 2011.
Second, because nobody controls the internet, it has proved hard to censor.
Google's services in China have often been slow since the company said in 2010 that it would no longer censor Internet searches as required under local law and shifted its search operations to Hong Kong.
Google's services in China have often been slow and unreliable since the company declared in 2010 that it would no longer censor Internet searches as required under local law and shifted its search operations to Hong Kong.
In another case, according to a report in the Washington Post, technology supplied by Blue Coat Systems Inc. was used to censor and track Internet usage in Syria.
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Rather, it would give them massive amounts of control over the internet, as they can deem which sites are harmful to their brand and effectively censor them should they link to anything remotely resembling their copyrighted material.
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