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Global Online Freedom Act of 2006

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I wrote in the past how badly I think is the involvement of the congress in the practices of corporations in china. But if I was thinking that this farce will end with the hearing I was delusional.

Today the Reuters reports on suggested law that will regulate the behavior of American search companies abroad – “Global online freedom act of 2006”

“- China, Iran and Vietnam would be initially designated as Internet-restricting countries based on systematic curbs on Internet freedom. Twelve other countries, including Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Turkmenistan are identified as restrictive, subject to annual reviews.

- U.S. firms which create, provide or host Internet search engines would be forbidden to locate their search engines within designated Internet-restricting countries.

- U.S. firms would be forbidden to alter the search engines in response to requests from Internet-restricting countries or make changes that produced search engine results within restricting countries that differ from results elsewhere.

- U.S. search engine providers must transparently share with the U.S. Office of Global Internet freedom details of terms or parameters submitted by Internet-restricting countries.

- U.S. businesses maintaining Internet content hosting services can personally identify users only for cases of legitimate law enforcement purposes as determined by the U.S. Department of Justice. “

The same politicians that embrace political deals with the darkest regimes, the same politicians who didn’t stand for liberty and support of the freedom of speech are going to impose another legistlation. With the Patriot act and the DOJ subpoena, are they going to consider the US as one of these countries?

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February 17th, 2006 at 11:14 pm


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