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Deutsch: ENDitorial: Europarat – Eine neue Begriffsbestimmung für Medien

The fourth meeting of the Council of Europe (CoE) Committee of experts on new media (MC-NM) was held on 28-29 March 2011 in Strasbourg, with two main points on its agenda. The first one was a discussion on comments received in response of its public consultation on two draft recommendations on the protection of human rights with regards, to search engines and to social network services, respectively. This MC-NM work is led by The Netherlands representative (Sjoera Nas), with the help of the Secretariat.

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Deutsch: Aserbaidschan: Dissidenten mit neuen Internet-Tools ausgeforscht

As freedom activists have increased their activity on Facebook, the Azeri government has also increased its attention and surveillance of social networks.

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Deutsch: Ungarn überarbeitet umstrittenes Mediengesetz

As a result of the concern expressed by the European Commission and following the meetings with the Commission's experts on 7 and 15 February 2011, the Hungarian authorities have decided to amend their new controversial media legislation.

The main issues of concern were related to four issues:

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Deutsch: Polnischer Oberster Gerichtshof: Elektronische Presse muss registriert...

On 15 December 2010, in a cassation proceeding, the Polish Supreme Court decided that all electronic press in Poland must be registered.

European Digital Rights responded to the European Commission's consultation on the E-Commerce Directive, the deadline for which was Friday, 5 November, 2010.

The E-Commerce Directive is of particular importance to digital civil rights because it covers issues such as the deletion of websites and monitoring of networks.

EDRi's response can be downloaded from:

http://www.edri.org/files/EDRi_ecommerceresponse_101105.pdf

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Deutsch: Italien: Online-Herausgeber unterliegen nicht den gleichen Haftungsbes...

The Italian Court of Cassation ruled in a decision taken on16 July 2010 and published on 1 October 2010 that online editors are not directly liable for the content published on their websites.

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Deutsch: ENDitorial: Internet-Sperren in zehn Wochen

Within the next ten weeks, the European Parliament will finish its crucial first reading of the Directive which, if the European Commission has its way, will impose an EU-wide blocking infrastructure - undermining child protection, fundamental rights and the EU's voice on freedom and democracy in the world.

The measure proposed is quite interesting. The text reads as follows: "Member States shall take the necessary measures to obtain the blocking of access by Internet users in their territory to Internet pages containing or disseminating child pornography.

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Deutsch: Niederländische Internet-Gemeinschaft protestiert gegen staatliche Ze...

Dutch civil society, companies, academics and bloggers sent a letter on 15 September 2010 to the Dutch Minister of Justice regarding a recently launched legislative proposal. According to the writers, the proposal could lead to censorship by the government. The organizations request the change of the proposal in order to preserve the freedom of press and internet.

The draft proposal of Dutch Minister of Justice Hirsch Ballin has far-reaching consequences for the freedom of Dutch internet users.