Freedom of speech
French courts give clear decisions for hosted content
20 May, 2009
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Deutsch: Französisches Gericht trifft klare Entscheidungen bei gehosteten Inha...
Several decisions taken by the French courts lately recognize the principle of non-liablilty of some web 2.0 sites for the content hosted. The new interpretation is putting things back on track, after some earlier strange decisions of the lower courts.
Dailymotion, the French video sharing site, has recently benefited of three decisions in its favour, in each case the site being considered as a mere hosting site and thus not liable for copyright infringement.
German Government forces ISPs to put web filters
22 April, 2009
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Deutsch: Deutsche Regierung verpflichtet ISPs zur Einführung von Webfiltern
Macedonian: Германската влада ги принудува интерн...
The German Government, through Germany's family minister Ursula von der Leyen as well as the head of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), Jörg Ziercke, signed on 17 April 2009 "voluntary" contracts with 5 large ISPs (Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone/Arcor, Hanse Net, Kabel Deutschland and Telefonica O2 that have 75 per cent of the German Internet access market) for child pornograph filtering via DNS.
At the same time, a draft bill on the same topic has been in
European Parliament ITRE committee votes against the 3 strikes
22 April, 2009
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Deutsch: ITRE-Komitee des Europäischen Parlaments stimmt gegen die 3 Treffer
The ITRE - Industry, Research and Energy Committee of the European Parliament (EP) has voted in the evening of 21 April 2009 on the Trautmann report and has reintroduced amendment 138.
ISPs asked to block child porn sites on the Internet
8 April, 2009
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Deutsch: ISPs werden aufgefordert, Kinderpornografieseiten im Internet zu sperr...
In Germany, based on the initiative of the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ), the government has had discussions for several months now on how to block child pornography sites hosted on servers outside of the country.
European Parliament asks for respect of human rights on the Internet
8 April, 2009
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Deutsch: Europäisches Parlament fordert Respekt für die Menschenrechte im Int...
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German Police searches the homes of the wikileaks.de domain owner
25 March, 2009
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Deutsch: Deutsche Polizei durchsucht die Häuser des Inhabers der Wikileaks-Dom...
The German Police searched the homes of Theodor Reppe, the owner of the domain name wikileaks.de, alleging he was under investigation for "distribution of pornographic material" and "discovery of evidence"
The seven police officers in Dresden and four in Jena having performed the searches in the evening of 24 March 2009 claimed the raid was initiated due to Mr. Reppe's position as the Wikileaks.de domain owner.
However, it is not clear what exact documents were targeted, because the German Police did not want to give any further information to Mr.
Italy to enforce a global censorship legislation?
25 February, 2009
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Deutsch: Steht Italien vor der Einführung eines weltweiten Zensurrechts?
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EU Commissioner: No to an Internet freedom law and Yes to net neutrality
11 February, 2009
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The intentions of some European Parliament members (MEPs) to introduce in EU a similar law with the Global Online Freedom Act proposed by the US Congress in January 2007, was considered unnecessary and a too "hard law" by Commissioner Viviane Reding.
The US bill is meant to promote freedom of speech on the Internet and prevent US companies from being forced to act like "cyber police".
