He was among the founders of the Demand Progress campaign group, which lobbies against internet censorship.
He said that the increasing threat of internet censorship had motivated the project.
Swartz then engaged in Internet digital activism, co-founding Demand Progress, a political action group that campaigns against Internet censorship.
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The Entertainment Software Association has maintained staunch support of internet censorship legislation in spite of alternatives like the OPEN Act.
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That internet censorship even came up as a possibility points to a worrying trend in the UK toward an increasingly invasive government.
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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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Earnest efforts to discuss the reality of Internet censorship were overwhelmed.
In 2010, he founded Demand Progress, a lobbying group that advocates for progressive policy changes and has played a decisive role in recent battles against Internet censorship.
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For the past several months, Google has been quietly lobbying the U.S. government to include restrictions against Internet censorship as a stipulation in free trade agreements with other countries.
According to a paper published in October by the Brookings Institution, of the total incidents of Internet censorship 52 percent occurred under authoritarian regimes, 39 percent under democracies, 6 percent under emerging democracies, and 3 percent in fragile states.
It has some ideals: Anonymous tends to defend free speech and fight internet censorship, as with the DDoS-ing of the web sites of MasterCard, Visa and PayPal after they nixed funding services to WikiLeaks, and the DDoS-ing of Tunisian government Web sites.
And we would like to see better language to protect Internet freedom and discourage Internet filtering and censorship built into future trade agreements and enforced in existing one.
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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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The company has no corporate policy against selling to governments or Internet service providers engaged in censorship.
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Passing laws against government control and censorship of the Internet is asking the fox to guard the hen house.
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The result is the potential for government censorship of the internet.
Civil liberties groups such as the Campaign Against Censorship of the Internet in Britain, the Foundation for Information Policy Research and the newly-formed Stand.org.uk, have also expressed concerns.
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.
As a Senate hearing on SOPA looms later this month, hackers and engineers have been busy building tools to cripple or defeat the bill, which many see as imposing widespread censorship on the Internet as well as potentially holding back advances in security.
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In recent years America has promoted the internet as a menace to foreign censorship.
The latter, for instance, took its content offline for a day ahead of the vote in July, claiming the law "could lead to the creation of extra-judicial censorship of the entire internet in Russia, including banning access to Wikipedia in the Russian language".
The new document serves as something of a counterpoint to the recently released Declaration of Internet Freedom, an online petition put together by Free Press which urges an end to censorship but also the promotion of universal access to the internet.
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Two bills aim to lock down the internet with a host of new government censorship powers.
What they will probably get if anything is a low-bandwidth, expensive to access Internet that will still be subject to censorship and easily shut down if some angry nation or bad guy hacker decides to.
Crowds of mostly young people held banners with slogans such as "no to censorship" and "a free internet".
The hackers arrayed against online censorship share banned content with other Internet users, who in turn spread the word, by whatever means possible, to the offline population.
In Central Asia, the regimes are getting Chinese technology to filter and control mobile and Internet while certainly some people evade censorship and blocks by their sheer numbers, the same properties that scales circumvention scales intervention against it.
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