For example, certain countries have
Internet censorship laws that prevent corporate learners from accessing some news articles and social media sites.
EFF extended free speech protections online, successfully challenging the constitutionality of
Internet censorship laws.
Not exact matches
Facebook and Google are welcome to operate in China — on condition that they abide by China's
censorship and cybersecurity
laws, Chinese regulators said at a UN conference on
Internet governance this week.
Google and Facebook have to accept China's
censorship and tough online
laws if they want access to its 751 million
internet users, say Chinese regulators.
The legislation, signed into
law by President Vladimir Putin on July 30, 2017, bans anonymous use of online messenger applications and prohibits the use of software to allow users to circumvent
internet censorship.
Given the many millions of dollars of profit that are lost when books, movies and music are stolen online, a bill to stop that sounds like great idea... but many tech companies (like Wikipedia and Google) believe that these particular
laws are too broad and that enforcing them would constitute
Internet censorship and violate the First Amendment.
Although the CCCI can not assume responsibility for
censorship of content on the
internet, any member has the right to lodge a complaint against another member, per the rules of our constitution and by -
laws, in which case the CCCI may intervene, and may find it necessary to suspend or expel members who author content with malicious intent, misrepresentation or defamation on ANY publicly available media (including but not limited to
internet communications of any kind).
Internet users and reform - oriented media are aggressively pushing the boundaries of
censorship, despite the risks of doing so, by advocating for the rule of
law and transparency, exposing official wrong - doing, and calling for reforms.
Topics include blog - related intellectual property
law,
Internet regulation, defamation, and
censorship, as well as how blogs are used as evidence and authority in the courts.»
On the prospect of
internet content
censorship, Lawyer Monthly hears the thoughts of Nicola Mead - Batten, an associate from Cardiff and London based Capital
Law, specialising in commercial disputes.
It covers key areas of media and access
law: access to courts, copyright and trademark,
censorship,
Internet regulation, invasion of privacy, libel, newsgathering, open records and meetings, and sources and subpoenas.
The principal recommendation of this report is that section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act be repealed so that the
censorship of
Internet hate speech is dealt with exclusively by the criminal
law.
(3) Lead by example in domestic policy areas, including addressing loose
laws on wiretaps, ambiguous oversight of intelligence agencies, shoddy content filtering mechanisms around access to pornography and hate speech, questionable deep packet inspection and data retention practices by
internet service providers, and other areas in which Canadian practices provide justification for China's own domestic
censorship and surveillance regime.