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Cool! “WikiLeaks wins court case against VISA Iceland”, How the record industry killed legal P2P… and a cyberculture roundup…
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TweetWikiLeaks Wins Battle Against Visa, MasterCard by Alex Fitzpatrick WikiLeaks wins court case against VISA Iceland for blocking funds from The Next Web by Jamillah Knowles Member of European Parliament sends “Thank you for fighting A...
Free fall…. Mehdi Hasan writes the story of free speech being lost in Turkey…
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TweetShare via emailIn Turkey the right to free speech is being lost | Mehdi Hasan by Mehdi Hasan Erdogan is using a series of alleged plots to justify a crackdown on dissent that threatens basic freedoms Which country in the world currently imp...
EFD Rights Watch: Not surprisingly “Turkey Loses Ground again in World Press Freedom Index
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Turkey Loses Ground again in World Press Freedom Index Turkey fell back ten places to number 148 in the 2011-2012 World Press Freedom Index. According to the report of Reporters Without Borders, press freedom is in an even worse state in only 31 coun...
Hungary Hurts Press Freedom, Say Journalists’ Groups
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Public outcry and international criticism is becoming an everyday noise concerning Hungary.
Today, we march against web censorship
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The march in Istanbul will start at Taksim Square at 14. There are many other planned marches in all over Turkey. Some organizers expect 100,000 demonstrators in Taksim. I suppose if 10 thousand shows up, it is definitely a good sign. In half an hour...
EU urged to commit to press freedom in the Balkans and Turkey
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By Catherine Castledine Across Europe’s Balkan countries, journalists continue work in fear of violence or prosecution. To mark World Press Freedom Day, media experts from across the bloc met in Brussels to put pressure on the EU to act. Today...
Hungary caves in to EU pressure on media law
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After a month of skirmishes between Budapest and Brussels over the new Hungarian government's controversial media law, it looks like the country's defiant prime minister Viktor Orban might be ready to throw in the towel. Yesterday the country's commu...
What the Hungarian minister said
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A moment of candour in Hungary's contrversy over the media law...
Hungarian media law and EU Council presidency: Evolving European opinion
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A measure of European public opinion is already reflected on multilingual Bloggingportal.eu, which aggregates 732 Euroblogs. The Hungarian media law is one of the recurring themes on the front page. Naturally, there is an impact from the fact that th...
"Hungary and Press Freedom: A good Start to 2011 for the EU?" by Susi Dennison
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Normally one EU Presidency passes onto the next with very little excitement, especially now that the Lisbon Treaty has entered into force and presidencies have even less of an agenda-setting role. But the start of the Hungarian Presidency has sparked...
WikiLeaks: an increased call for transparency
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WikiLeaks’ latest release of classified documents raised deep concern among the United States (US) Government and put into question whether the freedom of expression, as established in the First Amendment of the US Constitution, should be objec...
A Reminder to the Hungarian Government
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Via Bloggingportal.eu’s campaign I became aware of the controversial new media law in Hungary that seems to introduce mechanisms that elicit media censorship. A lot can be said about this law and its compliance with ECHR and the founding principles...
Censoring Hungarian blogs during the Hungarian EU Presidency (Updated 4x)
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As reported on Bloggingportal.eu: “On January 1st, Hungary will take over the Presidency of the EU Council. On the same day, a controversial new law will come into force that even the OSCE’s media freedom representative has openly criticised...
Hungary’s new censorship laws.
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Image by Ben Beiske via Flickr On the 1st of January a new era will dawn on Hungary. It will take over the Presidency of European Council for the first time and a new law on media freedom will come into effect. While the first thing is something for...
Hungary’s media law raises eyebrows and concerns
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I have been preparing a blog post about the Hungarian Presidency, which will take over in a little bit more then one week. My post was intended to outlining the EESC’s priorities under this Presidency, however I was intrigued by yesterday’s blo...
European Blog Action against Censorship in Hungary
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Picture: shawnzrossi || Creative Commons BY 2.0 We are calling for a European Blog Action against censorship in Hungary! On January 1st, Hungary will take over the Presidency of the EU Council. On the same day, a controversial new law will...
Julian Assange invented the blog,
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Only he calls it scientific journalism,Scientific journalism allows you to read a news story, then to click online to see the original document it is based on. That way you can judge for yourself: Is the story true? Did the journalist report it...
Kosmolinks #20: WikiLeaks
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Kosmolinks returns with a selection of the best wikileaks/cablegate articles/links. (see my initial reaction on cablegate/wikileaks here and some links to Julian Assange’s writings here). The in aim in this post is not to provide an overview ab...
Cable Gate: Pulling back the cloak
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According to the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, an “attack on the international community” has been launched by WikiLeaks. 251,287 documents are set to be released into the public domain, which according to the site is the larges...
Between gossip and intelligence: Some thoughts on #cablegate and wikileaks
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Once again, wikileaks managed to grab the attention of the world media. They started publishing 251,287 United States cables sent from, or to, US embassies around the world. They named it Cablegate and indeed it is a unprecedented leak of diploma...
[updated continously] Wikileaks releases Iraq War Documents. Biggest Military Leak in History
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http://warlogs.wikileaks.org/ Biggest Military Leak in History: WikiLeaks Releases 390,000 Iraq War Documents from Mashable! by Ben Parr WikiLeaks has once again captured international headlines with the release of 391,832 secret Iraq War documents t...
The Chatterley trial – 50 years on
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“Would you approve of your young sons, young daughters – because girls can read as well as boys -reading this book? Is it a book that you would have lying around in your own house? Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your s...
Penalty Payments 4 Jesus
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Here's a question:Homeowner paints a giant message on the roof of his farm, saying "Jesus saves". (Not that the content of the message is legally relevant, but it goes to motivation.) The municipality decides that it is a zoning violation, in the sen...
Sarkozy spies on Le Monde
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I was interested to see this article on the BBC website. The story also appeared in the Financial Times. Not content with expelling Roma from France, it seems as if President Sarkozy is also spying on journalists from Le Monde, one of France’s...
PROTECTING FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN EU
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I’ve had good feedback about some earlier Tweets on an important debate in the European Parliament, Monday. You can read the full text of my two speeches here, or below. The first is my opening remarks, the second (perhaps more interesting) i...
Attacking global guerilla’s reputation: Julian Assange accused of rape
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update: Swedish prosecutor drops WikiLeaks rape charge GLOBAL GUERRILLA: Julian Assange from Global Guerrillas by John Robb Julian Assange is the front man for Wikileaks. Wikileaks, if you haven’t been keeping up with current events, is a netwo...
Swedish Pirate Party to Host New WikiLeaks Servers
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The Swedish Pirate Party has published the following press release together with whistleblower site Wikileaks: The Pirate Party will host several new WikiLeaks servers. This was agreed during Julian Assange’s visit to Stockholm last weekend, and th...
Latvian hacker exposes fat cats: News24: Sci-Tech: News
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Latvian hacker exposes fat cats: News24: Sci-Tech: News...
Turkey hails the World Press Freedom with 216 defendants…
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found in McLuhan’s “Medium Is The Massage” LP 216 Defendants “Celebrated” World Press Freedom Day Behind Bars from Bianet :: English According to the BİA Media Monitoring report, 216 journalists, writers, publisher...
“Report of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media on Turkey and Internet Censorship
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Report of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media on Turkey and Internet Censorship from CyberLaw Blog Report of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media on Turkey and Internet Censorship (PDF file) Prepared by Dr. Yaman Akdeniz, Assoc...
Press Freedom in Italy Resolution Fails
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3 votes just stopped a resolution by the European Parliament on press freedom in Italy....
Press Freedom: Europe no longer an example?
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Today Reporters Sans Frotieres published the Press Freedom Index 2009 and the verdict about Europe is worrying. Several European countries “have fallen significantly in this year’s index“: For the first time since 2002, the press free...
The Political Divide over Press Freedom
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Few issues have divided the European Parliament in the way that Silvio Berlusconi has managed to do. I am talking specifically about his iron grip on the Italian media, though there are, of course other issues – ultra right wing views, corrup...
The scope of media freedom in Europe expanded by ECHR and ECJ
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Contentandcarrier have analysed two recent judgements of European courts:one by the European Court of Human Rights (which belongs to the Council of Europe, is based in Strasbourg, and covers the whole European continent minus Belarus, Kosovo, Holy Se...
“not limited to the media”: ECHR and ECJ expanding press freedom to non(traditional)media
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Of course it might be a bit premature to draw far-reaching conclusions from just one judgment each of the European Court of Human Rights and of the European Court of Justice - nevertheless, I’d like to draw your attention to these judgments...
OSCE representative criticises Czech Republic on media freedom
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In an official statement published today, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, the Hungarian Miklós Haraszti urges the Czech President Vaclav Klaus to veto the new draft criminal code just passed by the Czech parliament, which according...
Privacy and Freedom of the Press: Case C-73/07
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The Court of Justice has handed down a stack of interesting judgments lately. We can't write them all up today so be patient. Here's one which deals with a conflict between data protection (privacy) and the freedom of the press....
