• Posts Tagged ‘Media Laws’

    Thai Webmaster Arrested for Online Speech

    by  • September 29, 2010 • Blog • 0 Comments

    On Friday, the Director of a popular alternative Thai news portal Prachatai was arrested by the Thai government. Chiranuch Premchaipoen — popularly known as Jiew — was charged under the intermediary liability provisions of the 2007 Computer Crime Act and for “Lèse Majesté,” or defamation of the Thai royal family. She faces …

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    China Gives License to Redirected Search of the Free and Open Internet

    by  • July 12, 2010 • Blog • 0 Comments

    Ever since Google’s January 2010 decision to cease censorship of its Chinese-language search engine, the world has watched closely to see what would happen next. The ensuing cat-and-mouse game of information repression and dissemination represented a serious challenge to the ability of the Internet to remain free and open in the face of totalitarian …

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