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Archive for July 4th, 2009

I shall be at the Oxford Workshop on Press Freedom on the Internet: Challenges and Strategies in Defending Online Speech from Sunday 05 July until Wednesday 08 July.

I shall be delivering a speech on Internet censorship in Turkey on Monday 06 July.

On Tuesday, 07 July, I shall deliver another speech on hate speech, and terrorist propaganda on the Internet, and the implications for freedom of expression and information. This will predominantly involve the pan-European approaches to content regulation, and policy developments with regards to blocking and filtering in the European region.

I shall make available the summaries of my speeches, and presentations on this blog at a later date. [Blog entry by Yaman Akdeniz]

UK obscenity law: Where to now?: “

Post-Girls (Scream) Aloud, the written word is safe – for now

Analysis As the dust settles on the Girls (Scream) Aloud trial, what are the implications for the future of obscenity law in the UK?…

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(Via The Register – Public Sector.)

Web 2.0 not liable for real-world assaults, says court: “

Decency Act deflects MySpace suits

Social networking sites like MySpace are not liable if underage users are sexually assaulted by people they meet on the website, a California appeals court has ruled.…

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(Via The Register – Public Sector.)

PC giants ship Chinese censorware anyway: “

The porn filter that keeps you from typing

Though the Chinese government has delayed plans to require the shipment of the highly-controversial Green Dam filtering app with all new PCs, several big-name PC manufacturers are shipping the thing anyway.…

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(Via The Register – Public Sector.)

Iran ends text message blackout: “

Three weeks after election day

Iran’s ban on SMS texting has been lifted for the first time since the country’s disputed presidential election, according to reports.…

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(Via The Register – Public Sector.)

Conviction overturned in MySpace suicide case: “

Good news for net users

A federal judge on Thursday tentatively overturned convictions against a mother accused of using MySpace to bully a 13-year-old girl who went on to hang herself to death.…

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(Via The Register – Public Sector.)

A new Tiananmen – but this time China’s rebels are onlineThere has been a lot of talk about a dam bursting in China this week and it is being seen as a good thing. Only hours before the July 1 deadline that the Chinese Government had set for the mandatory installation of the ‘Green Dam Youth Escort’ software on every new computer sold in China, there was a rare and hasty retraction from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announcing that the initiative would be delayed.

(Via Tech and Web from Times Online.)