The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a measure Thursday that would give the government additional tools to pressure other companies to not do business with domains suspected of illegally sharing copyrighted material. Some due process for domains was added in during the markup ahead of the vote. This may mean that a domain would loose…
In the wake of Tuesday’s election results, the demise of net neutrality has been greatly exaggerated. Here are the facts: In May 73 Democrats signed on to a letter outlining their opposition to the FCC imposing net neutrality rules through reclassification. In June 32 Democrats signed a letter in support of reclassification. In late October…
On Oct. 8, the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. Liu is a longtime democracy advocate and one of the authors of Charter 08, a manifesto calling for democratization and political reform in China. The Chinese government’s reaction to the news was to promptly delete it from search engines and…
Expect more action at the Commerce Department on Internet Freedom this fall. Anita Ramasastry, senior advisor for the International Trade Administration told those attending an Internet Freedom panel discussion at NDN Tuesday that they will put out a Notice of Inquiry in September. The plan is to collect information on the impact of restrictions on…
James Rucker, co-founder of Color of Change, told progressive bloggers Thursday the FCC is trying to guarantee a level playing field for all websites and Internet technologies. But he said some of the big Internet Access Providers “are fighting tooth and nail to make sure the FCC can’t institutionalize these protections.” Rucker spoke to a…
News reports Thursday quote a Malaysian government official saying that three ministries have been asked to study alternatives to Internet filtering. This follows earlier news reports that the Malaysian government had issued the equivalent of a request for proposals to build an Internet filtering system to censor Internet content like pornography. The Malaysian proposal had…
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