OXFORD, ENGLAND -- At the TED conference, Jonathan Zittrain, a professor at Harvard Law School, made a laugh-out-loud defense of the Internet as a place not of unruly and nasty bloggers, but a place that has its own emerging set of ethics, rules and principles.

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The Conference therefore calls upon States and all parties to armed conflicts strictly to observe international humanitarian law, as set forth in the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and other rules and principles of international law, as well as minimum standards for protection of human rights, as laid down in international conventions.

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