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28 January 2012

What Does Twitter’s Country-by-Country Takedown System Mean for Freedom of Expression?

Written by Eva Galperin · Feature

Yesterday, Twitter announced in a blog post that it was launching a system that would allow the company to take down content on a country-by-country basis, as opposed to taking it down across the Twitter system. Eva Galperin explains what the new system will, and will not, allow.

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11 April 2009

France: ‘3 Strikes' Internet piracy law defeated in parliament

Written by Tal Pavel · regulation

France's parliament rejected Hadopi (la Haute Autorité pour la diffusion des œuvres et la protection des droits sur internet) bill on Thursday (09.04.2009) with the ruling UMP party failure (21-15)...

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7 March 2007

March of the censors: France, Turkey and China clamp down on freedom of speech

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · China, France

Two weeks ago, the French blog AgoraVox, one of the leading European citizen media blogs, warned against what it termed the gradual “berlusconisation” of the French media and the threat...

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