Australian IT News

01/11/06

An international journalism group has called on bloggers and web users to support its push to guarantee free speech online. Reporters Without Borders, (Reporters Sans Frontieres, or RSF) has issued a call for web companies to respect freedom of speech online when operating in 'oppressive' countries. Targeted mainly at US tech companies, it suggests ways of preventing countries from blocking free speech online. RSF has called on bloggers and other net users to get behind the push by signing an online petition.

http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=16119

The proposal includes laws banning US companies from hosting email servers in an 'oppressive' country in order to force those regimes wanting user email details to get them from the US, where requests would be subject to US judicial scrutiny...

http://tinyurl.com/8fns9


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp