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Deutsch: Frankreich will online-Glücksspielseiten filtern

From 7 till 9 October 2009, the French National Assembly will discuss a draft law on opening the competition and regulation of online gambling sector. The text foresees the creation of a similar authority to that of HADOPI, called ARJEL that would order the filtering of the gambling sites considered to operate illegally.

Although in a first version of the draft law ARJEL was referring to a judge for the blocking of the site, now, in order to expedite the procedure, the present text gives the authority the direct right to impose filtering of websites to ISPs.

ARJEL is meant to operate in a similar way to HADOPI.

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Deutsch: Die Türkei sperrt tausende ausländische Webseiten

Following the entering into force in November 2007 of the Turkish Law No. 5651 entitled Regulation of Publications on the Internet and Suppression of Crimes Committed by means of Such Publication, a large number of websites have been blocked in Turkey.

According to Dr. Yaman Akdeniz, Founder and Director of Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties (UK), there are at present more than 6000 websites blocked in Turkey including known sites such as YouTube, WordPress, GoogleGroups and Sites, DailyMotion and others.

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Deutsch: Umstrittener Entwurf zum Rahmenbeschluss gegen die sexuelle Ausbeutung...

The Civil Liberties Committee of the European Parliament held its first exchange of views on the controversial Proposal for a Framework Decision on combatting the sexual abuse, sexual exploitation of children and child pornography. The draft legislation includes an obligation to require ISPs to "block" access to child pornography sites and attempts to harmonise the approach of the 27 EU Member States to this issue.

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Deutsch: Azeri Online-Aktivisten wird Hooligmanismus angehängt – Haftstrafen

Two young Azeri bloggers - Emin Abdullayev (Milli), one of the founders of AN Network, a grass roots youth movement and Adnan Hajizada, a video-blogger from OL!

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Deutsch: EU beschuldigt China, das Internet zensieren zu wollen

On 25 June 2009, the European Commission condemned Chinese plans to enforce the instalment of the "Green Dam Youth Escort" filtering software on all PCs sold starting with 1 July.

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Deutsch: ENDitorial: die Regulierung von online-Medien in Aserbeidschan

I was invited last week to a meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan by the Council of Europe that organized together with the local National TV and Radio Council in order to discuss some issues related to the regulation of online media.

The meeting took place on 4 June 2009 and the first part was dedicated to the local authorities (Ministry of Communication and Information Technologies or National TV and Radio Council) local Internet actors (The online news agency lent.az, or APA news agency) and NGOs (such as Azerbaijan Internet Forum or IREX Azerbaijan).

Although the authorities and private partners sat at the same ta

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Deutsch: Finnland: Beschwerden über die Kinderpornografieliste der Polizei nic...

The Helsinki Administrative court decided on 20 May 2009 that complaints lodged in regards to the child-porn censorship list maintained by the Finnish Police are not allowed.

The case originates from one Finnish activist's "battle" against the censorship list maintained by the Finnish police and originally the censorship law passed by the Finnish Parliament in 2006, meant to combat child pornography.

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Deutsch: Die Internetzensur dräut über Deutschland

Germany is on the verge of censoring its Internet: The government - a grand coalition between the German social democrats and conservative party - seems united in its decision: On 18 June 2009, the German Parliament is to vote on the erection of an internet censorship architecture.

The Minister for Family Affairs Ursula von der Leyen kicked off and led the discussions within the German Federal Government to block Internet sites in order to fight child pornography. The general idea is to build a censorship architecture enabling the government to block content containing child pornography.