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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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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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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