References

China

  1. Beech, Hanah. “Sex And The Single Chinese”. Time. 5 Dec 2005. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1137697,00.html.
  2. “China's Sexual Revolution: Translations of Blog Posts by Muzimei”. On Point. 19 Dec 2005. http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2005/12/20051219aextra.asp.
  3. “Degrading Transparency: Comparing Google, Yahoo and Microsoft”. Nart Villeneuve. 25 Jan 2008. http://www.nartv.org/2008/01/25/degrading-transparency-comparing-google-yahoo-and-microsoft/.
  4. Fallows, James. “The Connection Has Been Reset”. The Atlantic Monthly. March 2008. http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200803/chinese-firewall.
  5. “Google censors itself for China”. BBC World News. 16 Jan 2006. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4645596.stm.

Egypt

  1. “Egypt: Blogger’s Imprisonment Sets Chilling Precedent”. Human Rights Watch. 22 Feb 2007. http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/02/22/egypt15379.htm. 1 Mar 2008.
  2. “Egypt: Drop Charges Against Blogger”. Human Rights Watch. 27 Jan 2007. http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/01/27/egypt15192.htm. 1 Mar 2008.
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  4. “Egypt: Investigate Torture, Rape of Activist Blogger”. Human Rights Watch. 19 Mar 2007. http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/03/19/egypt15521.htm. 1 Mar 2008.
  5. “Egypt: Police Severely Beat Pro-Democracy Activists”. Human Rights Watch. 31 May 2006. http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2006/05/31/egypt13482.htm. 13 Mar 2008.
  6. “Egypt censors book fair.” Agence France-Presse. 28 Jan 2008. http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gOa74fuVqqqgMSD61oKfpxqMeiug. 13 Mar 2008.
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  9. Goodenough, Patrick. “Formal Protests, Censorship As Governments React to ‘Blasphemy’”. CNSNews.com. 25 Feb 2008. http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200802/FOR20080225c.html. 13 Mar 2008.
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  12. Kamel, Tarek. “Internet Commercialization in Egypt: A Country Model”. Internet Society. Inet ’97 Proceedings. June 1997. http://www.isoc.org/inet97/proceedings/E6/E6_2.htm. 11 Mar 2008.
  13. Kamel, Tarek. “Statement BY H. E. Dr. Tarek Kamel, Minister of Communications and information technology.” World Summit on the Information Society. 17 Nov 2005. http://www.itu.int/wsis/tunis/statements/docs/g-egypt/1.html. 11 Mar 2008.
  14. Kaufman, Stephen. “Egyptian is First Blogger to Receive Journalism’s Knight Award”. US Department of State. USINFO. America.gov. 15 Nov 2007. http://www.america.gov/st/washfile-english/2007/November/20071115155416esnamfuak0.2498438.html. 22 Feb 2008.
  15. Mubarak, Hosny. “Address of H.E. Mr. Mohamed Hosny Mubarak.” World Summit on the Information Society. 10 Dec 2003. http://www.itu.int/wsis/geneva/coverage/statements/egypt/eg.htm. 11 Mar 2008.
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Europe

  1. Anderson, Nate. "EU to Regulate Video Bloggers (?)". From the News Desk. 18 Oct 2006. Ars Technica: The art of technology. 13 Mar 2008. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061018-8020.html?rel.
  2. Bangeman, Eric. "EU May Begin Treating 'Net Censorship as a Trade Barrier". From the News Desk. 27 Feb 2008. Ars Technica: The art of technology. 11 Mar 2008. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080227-eu-may-begin-treating-net-censorship-as-a-trade-barrier.html.
  3. Bonnici, J.P Mifsud and C.N.J. de Vey Mestdagh. "Right Vision Wrong Expectations: the EU and Self-regulation of harmful Internet Content". Information and Communications Technology Law. 14.2 (June 2005): 133-49.
  4. Cooke, Louise. "Controlling the net: European approaches to content and access regulation". Journal of Information Science. 33.3 (2007): 360-76.
  5. Fjordman. "The EU Wants to Increase Muslim Immigration and Internet Censorship". News in Europe. 14 Sept 2007. The Brussels Journal. 16 Mar 2008. http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2458.
  6. Gharbia, Sami Ben. "EU: Towards a European Global Online Freedom Act". Globalvoicesonline.org. 6 March 2008. Global Voices Advocacy. 6 March 2008. http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/03/06/eu-towards-a-european-global-online-freedom-act/.
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  9. Ryan, Johnny. "EU Bureaucrats Move to Censor and Filter the Internet". Alex Jones' TruthNews.us. 6 Nov 2007. TruthNews.us. 16 Mar 2008. http://www.truthnews.us/?p=822.
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  12. Villeneuve, Nart. "Framing Censorship". 28 Feb 2008. Nart Villeneuve: Internet Censorship Explorer. 11 Mar 2008. http://www.nartv.org/2008/02/28/framing-censorship/.
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The U.S.

  1. "Brigham Young University Bans YouTube Access for Students".  Associated Press.  17 Feb 2007.
  2. Communications Decency Act. Center for Democracy and Technology. http://www.cdt.org/speech/cda/.
  3. Communications Decency Act. U.S. Government. 1996.
  4. "Communications Decency Act". Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Decency_Act.
  5. Digital Millennium Copyright Act. U.S. Government. 2006.
  6. "Digital Millennium Copyright Act". Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCA.
  7. "Internet Filtering in the United States and Canada". OpenNet Initiative. http://opennet.net/sites/opennet.net/files/Regional_Overview_NA.pdf.
  8. Malcolm, John. Letter to Dan Eliasson. 17 Mar 2006.
  9. "Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act". Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCILLA.
  10. "Pirate Bay, The". Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay.
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