The U.S. Library of Congress reports that Belarus, a former Soviet Republic, has now essentially outlawed its citizens from browsing foreign websites.

FORBES: Belarus Has Outlawed Browsing Foreign Websites

They are checking share prices, looking for business leads and doing much of their browsing on Chinese-language software and accessing Chinese rather than foreign websites.

ECONOMIST: China and the Internet

It is one way of getting round the fact that UK law could not affect the foreign websites where some of the harder content can be found.

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Mostly the right to go after foreign websites.

FORBES: Under SOPA, "Justin Bieber Would Be In Jail"

This is precisely the loophole that PROTECT IP and SOPA are intended to plug: apply existing laws to the operators of foreign rogue websites that blatantly and intentionally skirt these laws for their own profit and give our courts and enforcement agencies a tool to cut these sites off from the U.S. market.

FORBES: The Case For Supporting SOPA And PROTECT IP

The targets are meant for internal use, but local governments have sometimes published them on websites, and foreign scholars have also seen copies.

ECONOMIST: Suppressing dissent

Websites also let people in Serbia read the foreign media's take on the conflict - when they are able to log on.

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Will the investigation probe as well the FBI's own questioning of Tamerlan two years ago at the behest of an unspecified foreign government, presumably Russia, over his involvement with jihadist websites and other activities?

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It would, for example, make it easier to shut down websites containing pirated material, or to sue pirates in foreign countries for damages.

ECONOMIST: Regulating the Internet

In February, the Knesset passed a law requiring NGOs to publish on their websites quarterly reports on all the contributions they receive from foreign governments.

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