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More Online Journalists Jailed Than Any Other Media Group

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Online speakers are attracting more attention than ever from governments across the world, for good or for ill. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), more online journalists are currently imprisoned for their speech than journalists in print, broadcast, or other media.  The CPJ identified 125 journalists currently serving prison sentences, 45 percent of whom are bloggers, Web-based reporters, or online editors.

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The Role of Internet Intermediaries in Censoring Online Speech

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Today I came across two excellent pieces touching on the role of intermediaries in censorship/regulation of online speech internationally:

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Copyright, Politics, and McCain's Request for Special Treatment

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Last week we reported that the McCain campaign had sent a letter to YouTube complaining that its campaign videos were being removed from YouTube as a result of unjustified DMCA takedown requests sent by news organizations whose footage was included in the videos.

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McCain's YouTube Takedowns Inspire Fair Use Fervor

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There's nothing like a misfired copyright claim to make a presidential campaign see the value of fair use.

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YouTube Changes Guidelines, Senator Lieberman Gets Partial Victory on Terrorist Videos

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Taking full advantage of the seventh anniversary of 9/11, YouTube announced changes to its community guidelines last week, prohibiting the upload of videos inciting others to commit violent acts.  The change comes several months after Senator Joe Lieberman pressured YouTube to remove videos not only inciting violence, but also content "that can be readily identified as produced by Al-Qaeda or another [Foreign Terrorist Organization]," through logos such as these:

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Turkish Court Ends Latest YouTube Ban

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The Guardian reports that a Turkish court has lifted the ban on YouTube in that country, imposed by an Ankara court in May 2008 after it determined that certain videos posted on the popular video-sharing site insulted Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey.

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Iran Moves One Step Closer to Ratifying Death Penalty for Blogging

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Online free speech has never been well received by the Iranian government, but now Tehran is just one step away from making blogging on certain topics into a capital crime. 

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WIA Releases Report on Arrests of Bloggers, Does It Overcount?

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According to a new report by the World Information Access (“WIA”) Project, 64 independent bloggers have been arrested since 2003, suggesting governments around the world are growing more aware of blogs and more likely to act to silence bloggers.

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Senator Lieberman Asks YouTube to Take Down Radical Islamist Videos

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On Monday, Senator Joe Lieberman wrote to Google's CEO Eric Schmidt, asking the company to remove content produced by Islamist terrorist organizations from YouTube. The May 19 letter pointed out that many videos posted by radical groups violate YouTube's own terms of service because they contain "graphic or gratiuitious violence." But Sen.

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Saudi Blogger Fouad Ahmad Al-Farhan Released

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After four months, the Saudi Arabian government has released popular Saudi blogger Fouad Ahmad Al-Farhan without charge. Authorities arrested Fouad in December after warning him about posts supporting an activist group on his blog at فؤاد أحمد الفرحان. From the time of his arrest, Interior Ministry officials were evasive about the reason for his detention, explaining only that it was not related to state security.

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