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The Enemies of the Internet: Obstacles to the Free Flow of Information on the Internet
White Paper The Internet has radically changed the traditional balance of power between governments and those who produce information. Since anyone can now distribute information to a vast audience, what is the role of journalists? [03 Jul 2008]
Enemies of the internet named and shamed
News A list of 13 countries that represent a threat to freedom of expression on the internet has been published by human rights campaigners Reporters Without Borders. Julien Pain, head of the Reporters Without Borders' internet freedom desk, told... [08 Nov 2006]
US web stranglehold challenged
News The Paris-based advocacy group Reporters Without Borders last week called reform proposals alarming and asked: "Do we really want the countries that censor the internet and jail cyber-dissidents to be in charge of the online flow of information? [30 Oct 2006]
Journalists sued over China iPod claims
News The suit provoked a media outcry, culminating in an open letter from Reporters Without Borders encouraging Apple boss Steve Jobs to defend the journalists. Foxconn, the company employed by Apple to manufacture the iPod, is taking two Chinese... [31 Aug 2006]
Google slammed for censoring its Chinese sites
News The France-based human rights group Reporters Without Borders (RWB) blasted Google, saying it was taking an immoral position that could not be justified. The group said in a statement: "By offering a version without 'subversive' content, Google is... [25 Jan 2006]
China: Web censorship gives US pause for thought
News Both Ryan and Smith are in the process of concocting new laws, which are likely to take cues from recommendations issued by Reporters Without Borders and the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (SRC), a 12-member, congressionally... [13 Jan 2006]
'Tunisia not fit to host world web summit'
News Seven national leaders, including the president of the Union of Tunisian Journalists, are in the midst of hunger strikes that they hope will lead to greater freedoms, according to the France-based watchdog group Reporters Without Borders. [15 Nov 2005]
Libya jails blogger
News Meanwhile, free press advocate Reporters Without Borders is calling on China to reopen a blog it shut down recently. Wang Yi, a teacher at China's Chengdu University, said authorities there ordered the company that hosted his blog to shut it down... [07 Nov 2005]
Leader: Who wants to test bloggers' new 'dodge jail' measures?
Leader Free-speech advocates at French organisation Reporters Without Borders have compiled a booklet to inform bloggers and journalists in countries with heavy-handed censorship how to get their message out safely. [23 Sep 2005]
Bloggers get a helping handbook
News Free-speech advocate Reporters Without Borders has published a guide for blogging in China, Iran and other countries that strictly censor the web. Reporters Without Borders' Julien Pain writes in the handbook's introduction: "Bloggers are often the... [23 Sep 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 09.09.05
Round-Up The Chinese government claimed 37-year-old Shi Tao, who wrote for newspaper Dangdai Shang Bao, had leaked a "state secret" overseas but Reporters Without Borders, a French media watchdog, claimed this secret was nothing more than an email sent to... [09 Sep 2005]
Yahoo! 'helped China jail journalist for state secret leak'
News Shi Tao, a 37-year-old writer for the Dangdai Shang Bao (Contemporary Business News), was sentenced in April to 10 years in prison, Reporters Without Borders said in a statement. Reporters Without Borders said in its statement: "We already knew... [07 Sep 2005]
Iranian blogger sentenced to 14 years
News Sigarchi worked as a newspaper editor before his arrest and had also been arrested last year after he posted a pictures of demonstration by Iranians whose family members had been executed in 1989, according to Reporters Without Borders. [24 Feb 2005]
Vint Cerf: People power must 'censor' the web
News In his foreword to the latest Reporters Without Borders report on the state of internet censorship, The Internet Under Surveillance - Obstacles to the Free Flow of Information Online, Cerf decried internet censorship by governments, and put the... [23 Jun 2003]
Online liberties crushed by Big Brother government
News Paris-based organisation Reporters Without Borders says Western governments have used 'counter-terrorism' rhetoric as a smokescreen for rushing through increased surveillance powers or justifying existing monitoring measures already in place. [05 Sep 2002]
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