Thursday, April 24, 2008

Everything old is new again....

Internet Censorship Coming to Russia

via ReadWriteWeb:

Russia, which is home to almost 30 million of Europe's 350 million Internet users may begin to extend its strict media censorship laws to the Internet, according to a report in the AFP. State newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta reported today that Russia's prosecutor's office wants to toughen its "anti-extremism" laws on the web. Most newspapers and television are already under some form of governmental control, which makes the Internet one of the last places for free press in the country. New proposals would begin to erode the last bastion of press freedom in the country.

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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/internet_censorship_coming_to_russia.php

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