So Craig Murray, former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, whose memoir Murder in Samarkand was finally published last week after spending months in legal limbo following claims from the UK government that they damaged the national interest, has attracted fresh legal trouble in the form of copyright takedown notice from none other than the FCO.
Murray alleges [...]
Categories: Uncategorized, censorship, law
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What does Google mean when it says “don’t be evil”? The company’s expansion in China will reveal whether it is on the side of citizen or state, says Becky Hogge.
So it turns out Google is evil after all. Like a toddler who’s just caught Santa beating up his little helper round the [...]
Categories: censorship
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American free speech is being squeezed by bad case law and the disproportionate power of intellectual property owners. US citizens must be vigilant, says Becky Hogge.
While the Bush administration stands accused of complicity in torture, corrupting the political process, and spying on its own citizens, the average American may find it hard [...]
Categories: censorship, copyright, law, opendemocracy
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The debate about who governs the internet will dominate the World Summit on the Information Society meeting in Tunis this week – but the world’s web users have more important things on their mind, says Becky Hogge.
One of the biggest draws of the information technology scene is that, unlike nearly any other [...]
Categories: censorship, development, law, opendemocracy, politics
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Google is doing business with a communist China notorious for internet censorship. Not only techno-libertarians should worry, says Becky Hogge.
In December 1993, talking to Time magazine, technologist and civil libertarian John Gilmore created one of the first verses in internet lore: “The net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it”. But [...]
Categories: censorship