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October 26, 2012Halas Moulton NewsKatherine Halas Moulton ed.

The Internet: the Last Bastion of Free Speech

Internet Censored Around the WorldThough accessible worldwide various countries have diferent laws controlling reeodom o speech and inormation

Internet is like oxygen. It shouldbe a right not a privilege. Your brainneeds inormation to survive, saysArbabi, an Iranian activist quoted inthe Hufngton Post. Depending onthe country that you live in you mayhave limited access to the internet.

The CBCreported that two videoson video you tube, owned by Google,needed to be taken down as ordredby the courts in Brazil. However, thesize o the ne, $5000 a day aterten days, or keeping those videos

posted may not be enough to slowa giant like Google down.

Some countries have been in thenews lately as the major players onthe Intenet challenge certain coun-trys lack o reedom o speech.China and Google have been goinghead to head for awhile. The NewYork Times reported that Googlehas been trying to raise awarenesso this lack o reedom by posting,adding a sotware twist to its searchpage that warns users when they

type a search term whose results arelikely to be blocked in China.

Iran currently has an Intranetwhich is a network that insulatesitsel rom news o the outsideworld as cited in theHufngton Postarticle.

Amnesty International and Report-ers without Borders have started aWorld Day Against Cyber Censor-ship to try to address these issues.

And we are not necessarily as lib-eral in Canada as we like to think.According to Canadian ProgressiveWorld, While Canada has ewerreports by comparison, the greatwhite north joins the club of estab-lished suppressors o ree speech onthe Internet, which includes China,the U.S. and, possibly, all dictato-rial regimes. Indian bans ofensivepolitical and religious content. InThailand a lese majeste law prohib-its criticism o the Thai monarchy.Turkey has a law against insultingthe Ataturk. They also report that

Google tells us that Canadian ofcesare asking to censor certain pagesof political dissent.

Source: Wikipedia

InternationalCooperationThe question of who regulates theinternet is very complicated andeach site is subject to the laws ofthe country in which it is hosted.However, since websites can beseen on computers all over theworld the question of regulatingcontent is very complicated. InDecember 2012, the InternationalTelecommunication Union (ICT)United Nations agency is setto host a major treaty-writingconference in Dubai that wouldgive this body jurisdiction overmany aspects of governing theinternet. If successfully negotiatedthe 193 countries would allow itto oversee internet management,charges, regulations of roaming,cybersecurity, cyber crime andother regulations. Also there isinternational cooperation beinghighlighted next week as New

Delhi hosts theThird WorldwideCybersecurity Summit October 30-31.

Some of our institutions aregrappling to control the interneta bit by choosing to use sitesin Canada. The New BrunswickDepartment of Education has justmandated that any site that hostsstudent work be hosted in Canada;and therefore, subject to Canadianlaws. However, presenters atworkshops are still encouragingteachers to use sites that are hostedelsewhere like weebly for their sites.

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