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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Massive crackdowns on Internet freedoms in some
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Thu Mar 29 15:06:13 2012
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:49:28 -0700
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Massive crackdowns on Internet freedoms in some Arab countries?
http://j.mp/H4W6x7 (Economist)
"A BILL on "information-technology crimes" with extraordinarily broad
wording and harsh punishments is due to come before Iraq's parliament
in April, once the dignitaries and television cameras at this week's
Arab League summit in Baghdad have departed. The bill is one of four
proposed laws that could severely restrict basic freedoms. (A fifth,
on journalists, was passed last summer.) Access Now, a human-rights
group with a focus on technology, has a report on it out today.
According to an English translation from last August, it includes
mandatory life sentences for using computers or the internet to
"compromise" the "unity" of the state (Article 3), promote "ideas
which are disruptive to public order" (Article 4), or engage in
"trafficking, promoting or facilitating the abuse of drugs" (Article
5), which could include merely blogging about them."
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