The Entertainment Software Association has maintained staunch support of internet censorship legislation in spite of alternatives like the OPEN Act.
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Reports like the one the USTR will now issue on Russian Internet censorship, will illustrate their Internet restrictions and their impact on trade.
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Friedman decried the hackers, and those who are like-minded, as purveyors of censorship on the Internet.
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When Bavarian prosecutors launched their investigation, CompuServe, based in Columbus, Ohio, blocked access to 200 electronic message boards for all of its then four million users worldwide, setting off an international debate over censorship on the internet.
Naturally, the Internet's challenges are not confined to political censorship.
Remember a couple weeks ago, when Twitter changed its policy regarding how it blocks tweets in response to legal rulings, and the whole internet went crazy, accusing the microblogging platform of censorship and social malpractice?
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If left unattended to, Web censorship could end up costing Google and other Internet companies a bucket of cash if they have to comply with foreign governments' whims over Internet content.
If an Internet company operating in a foreign country is suddenly exposed to censorship, it has virtually no recourse.
Miao Wei, minister of Industry and Information Technology, called upon internet companies to strengthen their research and development to ensure better censorship of content.
India's Madras High Court has since changed its earlier censorship order, which centred on the issue of internet copyright, making it once again possible for web users to access video and file-sharing sites, including The Pirate Bay.
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So the moment I finish a long screed lambasting the entertainment industry for censorship I hear the news: there is a Casey Anthony video on the internet!
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But since an elected, though still military-backed, government took power in 2011, people have been using the Internet and social media in increasing numbers, and the press has been unshackled, with censorship mostly dropped and privately owned daily newspapers expected to hit the streets in the next few months.
"Internet payola, " he called it. (Verizon and Google denied they were making such a deal.) "Blocking is the same thing as censorship, " says Wu, a Harvard law grad who studied under open- Internet evangelist Lawrence Lessig.
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