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Deutsch: Frankreich: Google neuerlich wegen Suggest-Funktion vor Gericht

Four French associations have decided to take Google to court for its automatic suggestion of the word “Jew” when searching for the names of several French personalities.

Union des étudiants juifs de France (UEJF – union of Jew students of France), J'accuse!-action internationale pour la justice (AIPJ- international action for justice), SOS Racisme and Mouvement contre le rasisme et pour l’amitie entre les peoples (MRAP- the movement against racism and for the friendship between peoples) consider th

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Deutsch: Spanien: Gesetzesvorstoß zur Kriminalisierung von Protestaufrufen im ...

The Spanish Government intends to pass a reform of the Penal Code that would criminalise the organisation of street protests that "seriously disturb the public peace", by any kind of media including online social networks such as Facebook.

On 11 April 2012, Jorge Fernandez Diaz, the Spanish interior minister, announced in the Congress the government was planning a reform of the Penal Code to criminalise those involved in organising street protests, following the widespread serie

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Deutsch: Twitter zensuriert Sarkozy-kritische Accounts

Between 16 and 18 February 2012, in a surprising and first dangerous precedent in France, the social network Twitter suspended four accounts of users who were posting parody and caricature statements related to President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Only two months from the French presidency election, and after the creation on 15 February of an official account of the current French president on this space, the obvious censorship applied by Twitter at the express request of Sarkozy's team (at least for one of the accounts on alleged impersonation), an

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Deutsch: Die neuesten Versuche der russischen Regierung das Internet zu zensier...

Especially during the period before and immediately after the Russian parliamentary elections of 4 December 2011, government censorship attacked not only traditional media, but also the Internet, which plays now a very important role in the political debate in Russia with more than 51 million users.

An order from the Federal Security Service (FSB) asked social network Vkontakte, with more than 5 million Russian users, to block the websites of seven groups calling for demonstrations durin

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Deutsch: US-Razzien gegen Domains und IP-Adressen gehen weiter

US authorities have resumed their "Operation in Our Sites" in order to attempt to fight counterfeit and piracy-related websites. During this second annual "Cyber Monday" crackdown, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has shut down 150 websites from all over the world.

The recent introduction of draft bills, such as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) now aims at providing a legal basis for domain names and IP address seizures.

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Deutsch: Berlusconis Abhörgesetz bedroht Online-Medien

The Italian Parliament has resumed discussions on the very criticised governmental bill that would limit the publication of wiretaps in the news media, forcing at the same time websites to automatically publish corrections at request. But on 12 October 2011 the decision on the final text was postponed, after the paragraph 29 was amended so it will not apply to any blog.

The draft bill was approved by the Senate in June 2011 but has been put aside due to strong criticism from civil society.

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Deutsch: EGMR prüft Beschwerde von Azeri Bloggern wegen unrechtmäßiger Inhaf...

The Azeri bloggers that have been imprisoned for one year and a half under alleged hooliganism accusations, have filed a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights which will decide whether their detention was in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade were arrested in Baku in July 2009, being accused of hooliganism, after having reported to the police that they had been physically attacked in a restaurant.

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Deutsch: Frankreichs Internet-Rat ohne Konsumentenvertreter

On 27 April 2011, French President Nicolas Sarkozy officially installed the National Digital Council (Conseil national du numérique - CNN) which is to advise the French government on digital issues.