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New submitter BraveThumb writes "One independent rap group found it impossible to post their song on YouTube .
Flaw In YouTube Takedown Process Exposed - Slashdot
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Belarus: Browsing Foreign Websites a Misdemeanor - Global Legal Monitor - Law Library of Congress (Library of Congress)
India: freedom of speech, information & media
How Even Highly-Targeted Censorship Can Lead To Overblocking | Techdirt
from the unintended-consequences dept As the battle rages over SOPA and PIPA, censorship is very much on people's minds. But there are many different kinds of censorship, operating at different levels of precision.Occupy D.C. protesters preparing to livestream a solidarity march. Photo: Brendan Hoffman/Wired.com When Sascha Meinrath saw the Occupy encampment in D.C., he saw something few others would — a testbed for technology.
U.S.-Funded Internet Liberation Project Finds Perfect Test Site: Occupy D.C. | Threat Level | Wired.com
Imprisonments jump worldwide, and Iran is worst - Reports - Committee to Protect Journalists
Stark regional differences are seen as jailings grow significantly in the Middle East and North Africa.
ACTA / SOPA / PIPA / COICA
The Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest
All work on infojustice.org is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License . infojustice.org is a project of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at American University Washington College of LawJailed Egyptian blogger on hunger strike - Committee to Protect Journalists
Sanad, who runs his own blog , was arrested after he wrote an article criticizing the military and describing his torture by the military while he was in detention. He also said the military was the real threat to the country--not the deposed President Hosni Mubarak.
My panel with Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf and Al Gore at Mexico City’s Campus Party – Boing Boing
By Cory Doctorow at 10:37 pm Thursday, Aug 11
Amnesty International has released its annual report on executions and the death penalty and found that executions were up in 2011. The increase, accoring to the report, is largely due to the reaction of Middle Eastern states to the Arab Spring.
Pakistan escalates its internet censorship - Opinion - Al Jazeera English | Rights & Liberties | Scoop.it
White House: we "win the future" by making ISPs into copyright cops
The White House likes the newly announced "six strikes" voluntary agreement announced today between major copyright holders and Internet access providers.(i) Misidentification of Account - that the ISP account has been incorrectly identified as one through which acts of alleged copyright infringement have occurred. (ii) Unauthorized Use of Account - that the alleged activity was the result of the unauthorized use of the Subscriber’s account of which the Subscriber was unaware and that the Subscriber could not reasonably have prevented.
The six ways you can appeal new copyright "mitigation measures"
July 8, 2011 in Corporate