Facebook libel leads to £10,000 payout
Facebook libel leads to £10,000 payout: “The High Court has ordered a chef to pay £10,000 in libel damages for a Facebook posting in which he called a former friend a homosexual paedophile. Law student…
UAE to cut off BlackBerry users
UAE to cut off BlackBerry users: “ Best before 11 October The United Arab Emirates will impose a ban on the email service on RIM’s BlackBerry devices from October 1st this year because it’s just…
YouTube banned by Russian court
YouTube banned by Russian court | World news | guardian.co.uk Court in Khabarovsk region orders internet provider Rosnet to block YouTube over ultra-nationalist video * Tom Parfitt in Moscow * guardian.co.uk, Thursday 29 July 2010…
Russian court ruling bans YouTube – RT Top Stories
Russian court ruling bans YouTube – RT Top Stories: Published 28 July, 2010, 13:56 Edited 29 July, 2010, 07:22 A court in Russia’s Far East has banned access to YouTube, accusing the video sharing site…
YouTube Banned by a Far East Court | The Moscow Times
YouTube Banned by a Far East Court |The Moscow Times 29 July 2010, By Alexandra Odynova A Far East court has banned YouTube and four other web sites for ‘extremist’ content in a ruling that…
YouTube Banned in Russia Over Racist Video
YouTube Banned in Russia Over Racist Video 29.07.2010 A court in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russia has demanded a Russian ISP block access to YouTube because the site hosted ‘Russia for Russians,’ which was judged to be an…
Turks marched against government censorship of the Internet
Written by Dr. Yaman Akdeniz, Associate Professor, Human Rights Law Research Center, Faculty of Law, Istanbul Bilgi University, and Director of Cyber-Rights.Org. (lawya@cyber-rights.org) Published also by Index on Censorship on 29.07.2010 Internet censorship is alive…
Translator fined over child porn cartoons in Sweden
Translator fined over child porn cartoons – The Local Published: 25 Jul 10 11:14 CET Online: http://www.thelocal.se/27984/20100725/ A Swedish translator of Japanese manga comics has been fined by Uppsala district court for possession of drawings…
Summary judgment confirms ‘safe harbour’ protection for YouTube
Summary judgment confirms ‘safe harbour’ protection for YouTube | Pinsent Masons LLP OUT-LAW News, 24/06/2010 YouTube is protected by the safe harbour provisions of US copyright law and is not guilty of copyright infringement when…
China says Google will obey censorship laws, Britain’s deficit shrinks slightly
Political Economy – Morning briefing: China says Google will obey censorship laws, Britain’s deficit shrinks slightly: “China says Google will obey censorship laws, Britain’s deficit shrinks slightly By Ariana Eunjung Cha, Washington Post, 20.07.2010 *China…