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FCC Fondles Free Broadband
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of the auction plan in a few weeks. His business model would use advertising to help fund the free internet service. Yet despite the complaints from Free Speech advocates and the cell phone industry, Martin’s biggest hurdle will be to convince the commission’s...
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Chinese Lawyer Lobbies for Hearing Over Porn Filter
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and claiming that designation that the same software be installed on all computers affects citizens’ right to choose. Fangping added that above all, they are concerned about free speech and citizens privacy."Above all, we're concerned about freedom of speech...
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YouTube Updates "Community Guidlines" to Ban Drug Abuse, Terrorist Clips
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hate speech. However, while YouTube removed some of the videos highlighted by Lieberman’s staff, the site remained adamant that free speech and the right to express an unpopular point of view were a large part of what YouTube was about and maintained most...
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China Requiring Filters on PCs
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Internet Society, an advocacy group in Hong Kong. “It’s like downloading spyware onto your computer, but the government is the spy.” Free-speech advocates are also in an uproar, afraid that the new software will filter out access to uncensored news and...
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China Delaying Green Dam Software
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under fire within and outside the country, with many suspecting that the software may actually record personal data and monitor Internet usage. Free-speech advocates accused China of censorship while security specialists warned of possible issues. But China...
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Internet Flaming May Become Illegal
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Missouri woman on MySpace. Sanchez said that the bill is not out to stifle or censor free speech, but to determine "cyberbullyism" in court."Congress has no interest in censoring speech and it will not do so if it passes this bill," she said. "Put simply, this...
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Big Brother Watches: FTC Monitors Blogs
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Free Speech.. According to the Associated Press, the Federal Trade Commission is now setting its sights on bloggers who receive money, gifts, free items, or anything else from corporations that could sway the writer in a certain direction despite the "truth."...
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Tech Companies Sign Human Rights Policy
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Tech Companies Sign Human Rights Policy. Google Microsoft Yahoo Human Rights. Several major technology companies have signed a global agreement designed to apply common set of principles for how to do business in nations that restrict free speech and expression....
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Websites Could Get Movie-Style Ratings
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Libel is [also] an emerging issue." He goes on to say that, there is content that shouldn't be viewed period. "This is not a campaign against free speech," he adds, "far from it; it is simply there is a wider public interest at stake when it involves harm to...
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Threatening Rap on YouTube Lands Two in Jail
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on YouTube. 24-year-old Mathew Rufino of New Bedford and 28-year-old Jason Foley of Fairhaven created a threatening rap video and uploaded it to YouTube. Unfortunately, the two were no longer protected by Free Speech when they actually mentioned the names of...