Passing laws against government control and censorship of the Internet is asking the fox to guard the hen house.
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The result is the potential for government censorship of the internet.
Civil liberties groups such as the Campaign Against Censorship of the Internet in Britain, the Foundation for Information Policy Research and the newly-formed Stand.org.uk, have also expressed concerns.
The latter, for instance, took its content offline for a day ahead of the vote in July, claiming the law "could lead to the creation of extra-judicial censorship of the entire internet in Russia, including banning access to Wikipedia in the Russian language".
Friedman decried the hackers, and those who are like-minded, as purveyors of censorship on the Internet.
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He said that the increasing threat of internet censorship had motivated the project.
The Entertainment Software Association has maintained staunch support of internet censorship legislation in spite of alternatives like the OPEN Act.
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The new document serves as something of a counterpoint to the recently released Declaration of Internet Freedom, an online petition put together by Free Press which urges an end to censorship but also the promotion of universal access to the internet.
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Remember a couple weeks ago, when Twitter changed its policy regarding how it blocks tweets in response to legal rulings, and the whole internet went crazy, accusing the microblogging platform of censorship and social malpractice?
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Earnest efforts to discuss the reality of Internet censorship were overwhelmed.
India's Madras High Court has since changed its earlier censorship order, which centred on the issue of internet copyright, making it once again possible for web users to access video and file-sharing sites, including The Pirate Bay.
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According to a paper published in October by the Brookings Institution, of the total incidents of Internet censorship 52 percent occurred under authoritarian regimes, 39 percent under democracies, 6 percent under emerging democracies, and 3 percent in fragile states.
The Russian internet is basically free and open, and has little in the way of official censorship or control, and it plays an increasingly important role in the lives of ordinary Russians.
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Two bills aim to lock down the internet with a host of new government censorship powers.
It has some ideals: Anonymous tends to defend free speech and fight internet censorship, as with the DDoS-ing of the web sites of MasterCard, Visa and PayPal after they nixed funding services to WikiLeaks, and the DDoS-ing of Tunisian government Web sites.
He was among the founders of the Demand Progress campaign group, which lobbies against internet censorship.
"It creates an open door for review of content and potential censorship there, it will create a chilling environment for the internet, " said Terry Kramer, the US's ambassador to Wcit, in a video uploaded by the ITU on Sunday.
When Bavarian prosecutors launched their investigation, CompuServe, based in Columbus, Ohio, blocked access to 200 electronic message boards for all of its then four million users worldwide, setting off an international debate over censorship on the internet.
What if every writer and blogger and artist and humorist on the internet could no longer share with or link to one another for fear of censorship at the hands of the entertainment industry itself?
Palfrey compares the country's erratic censorship with that of the Chinese government, which has had a similar pattern of blocking and unblocking portions of the Internet.
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