[ga] Report Warns Against Well-Meaning Net Censorship. Sounds like ICANN.

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  Shades of ICANN?

See:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070727/ap_on_hi_te/internet_restrictions

A report entitled 'Governing the Internet,' was issued Thursday by the
56-nation Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The
document, which highlights the increasing environment of internet
'policing' around the world, characterized the practice as 'a bitter
reminder
of the ease with which some regimes -- democracies and dictatorships
alike -- seek to suppress speech that they disapprove of, dislike, or
simply fear.' From the article: 'The OSCE report says Kazakhstan's
efforts to rein in Internet journalism in the name of national security
is
reminiscent of Soviet-era "spy mania," and it says Georgian law contains

numerous provisions curbing freedom of expression online. Web sites,
blogs and personal pages all are subject to criminal as well as civil
prosecution in Kazakhstan, and the country's information minister,
Yermukhamet Yertysbayev, has vowed to purge Kazakh sites of
"dirt" and "lies.

Regards,

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