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6th December 2012 on Teh Web tagged Dubai, Internet, ITU, Memes, WCIT

WCIT: The regulation of the Internet in memes

Having the attention span of a gnat, my head is getting proper done in by watching and reading the impenetrable stuff coming out of WCIT in Dubai – and we’re only 3 days in. Luckily persons smarter than I are making more sense of it online for me to read on blogs & Twitter – …

30th November 2012 on Human rights, Online Campaigns, video tagged block, censorship, International Telecommunication Union, ITU, Pussy Riot, Putin, Russia, video, WCIT

ITU Net grab: Russia give us a taste of their ideas for the Internet

A Russian court yesterday ruled that websites which don’t remove Pussy Riot videos from their pages may be blocked. Judge Marina Musimovich (using a vaguely worded law originally aimed at curbing nazi and terrorist material) ruled that videos including the band’s controversial ‘punk prayer’ asking the virgin Mary to kick out Putin, had “elements of …