Yet it seems that, on such situations, governments are yet to provide a compelling reason for
online censorship laws other than for common «decency».
Not exact matches
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.
EFF extended free speech protections
online, successfully challenging the constitutionality of Internet
censorship laws.
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.
I've seen some pretty good arguments that Twitter's attempts to comply with country
laws on a national level are a good development in
online censorship.