Other measures introduced tougher internet restrictions, outlawed "gay propaganda" and banned adoptions of Russian orphans by US parents.
Economic problems, long-standing corruption, new internet restrictions and the conflict in neighbouring Syria have fuelled calls for change.
Reports like the one the USTR will now issue on Russian Internet censorship, will illustrate their Internet restrictions and their impact on trade.
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And in recent weeks, Internet restrictions have become so severe that Iranians cannot communicate freely with their loved ones within Iran, or beyond its borders.
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Since the military transferred power to a nominally civilian government last year, Myanmar's new administration has released political prisoners and eased Internet restrictions, among other reforms.
In its recent negotiations, Google is pushing four key points: that free information flows are important for the global economy, that trade should not be restricted by the regulation of the Internet, that all players on the Web are treated fairly and that laws should be put in place to make any Internet restrictions transparent.
He says the restrictions on Internet access is a notable blow to press freedom.
For the past several months, Google has been quietly lobbying the U.S. government to include restrictions against Internet censorship as a stipulation in free trade agreements with other countries.
Despite his backing of legal restrictions on Internet indecency, which the Supreme Court last week struck down as unconstitutional, Clinton has advocated a tax-free, regulation-free business environment for online commerce.
The report highlighted further curbs and fines for staging public demonstrations, a wider definition of treason and restrictions on internet content - measures seen by critics as attempts by the Kremlin to quash public dissent.
Jalili is widely assumed to be the favorite and his web presence is suitably polished and indicative of considerable preparation, though quite who the audience for this is, given the current restrictions on internet access in the run-up to the election, remains unclear.
Among other steps, the government has loosened restrictions on the Internet, leading to robust political debate on blogs and other social media.
Some of the groups that were instrumental in defeating SOPA and PIPA legislation last Congress are beginning to mobilize in response to concerns that the TTIF could be a backdoor to IP-based restrictions that affect internet use and data sharing, among other issues.
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Clinton said in her speech Tuesday that China faces a "dictator's dilemma": confront the political consequences of lifting restrictions on the Internet, or invest huge amounts in strengthening those limits while missing out on the potential benefits from the free exchange of ideas.
If broadcast flag rules and technology were in place, it could keep a university from playing part of a news program for a distance-learning course taken over the Internet, or even impose restrictions on a teacher who records a documentary to show in class, she says.
Several bills in Congress have been introduced, with names such as the "Internet Freedom Act, " that remove restrictions on RBOCs which the RBOCs claim stifle both local and long-distance broadband deployments.
Singapore has a handful of programmes to help start-ups, but most are ruined by restrictions that make them unsuited to Internet firms.
Fox argues the FCC's "ban on broadcast indecency" is "substantively identical" to the restrictions the high court rejected for the Internet.
Without such restrictions, many consumer advocates say the Internet will change from being an open, democratic network to a closed system, as NPR's Laura Sydell reports.
Internet connections, digital rights management and used games restrictions all point to a common theme when the next consoles drop, both Sony and Microsoft want to be able to keep their consumers under control.
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Over the summer, iAdvance released a study purporting to demonstrate that regions of the country served by non-Bell carriers -- those with no long-distance restrictions -- tend to enjoy more high-speed Internet backbone interconnection points.
The FCC is even asking if radio should still be considered a discrete market, in which ownership restrictions are evaluated as if consumers didn't have access to the Internet, digital cable and satellite, wireless Palm handhelds and the myriad other noisy forms of media that intrude on their daily existence.
Young people are finally pushing to have Internet access, while the retired complain about their miserable pensions and almost everyone disagrees with the travel restrictions that prevent our leaving and returning to our own country.
New arrivals in Dharamsala describe a pervasive Chinese security presence, severe restrictions on movement, night raids to round up activists and only sporadic access to telephone and internet links.
Last year's fight over the arcane concept of network neutrality--the absence of restrictions on the type of content that can move over the privately owned networks that comprise the Internet--was just a preview.
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