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Deutsch: Wie viele Webseiten sperrt die Türkei?

That information hasn't been updated since May 2009. This is why Prof Yaman Akdeniz, who teaches Internet law at Istanbul's Bilgi University, has initiated a trial, based on the Turkish law on access to public information.

In May 2009, the number of websites blocked was already 2601, with a huge increase since May 2008 when the number was only 433.

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Deutsch: EDRi sendet offenen Brief an die EU-Kommission und lehnt Internetblock...

EDRi's letter was sent to Commissioners Cecilia Malmström (Home Affairs), Viviane Reding (Justice and Fundamental Rights) and Neelie Kroes (Digital Agenda).

The letter congratulates the Commissioners for their nominations and approval in their new portfolios. It welcomes the positive statements made by all three Commissioners on the need to respect fundamental rights and to insist that legislation is "evidence based".

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Deutsch: Frankreichs Parlament verfolgt weiterhin sein Ziel das Internet zu zen...

On 16 February, the National Assembly, the lower house of the French Parliament, passed the first draft of the so-called Loppsi 2 bill allowing the authorities to control the Internet under the pretext of improving the citizens' security.

The new legislation deals not only with child pornography sites, but has in view a long blacklist of other types of websites that ISPs will have to block.

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Deutsch: Frankreich/Dänemark: Sperren für Glücksspielseiten

An amendment to the draft law on the opening of the market of online gambling was introduced to the French Senate Commission for culture and communication, in order to give the administration the power to apply filters to gambling sites without a court order.

While initially, during the examination of the draft law in the National Assembly, the decision was that filtering non-homologated sites would be subject to a court order, the amendment wants to give ARJEL (the authority regulating online games), as it was intended initially, the power to order the blocking measures.

Hopefully, even if adopted by the Senate, t

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Deutsch: Italien wünscht eine Lizenz für das Hochladen von Videos ins Interne...

The Italian Government intends to introduce a new decree that would require people who upload videos onto the Internet to get authorization from the Communications Ministry just like television broadcasters.

Article 4 of the respective decree, which is strongly pushed by Silvio Berlusconi, specifies that a ministerial authorisation is required for the dissemination over the Internet "of moving pictures, whether or not accompanied by sound." This will affect sites of newspapers, IPTV and mobile TV, as well as any person who wants to upload a video on a video-sharing website.

A press conference was he