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| Bill Would Bar US Companies From Net Censorship                    |
|   from the accountability-may-make-a-comeback-after-all dept.      |
|   posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday May 02, @14:09 (Censorship)    |
|   http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/02/1543243 |
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Meredith writes “A bill that would [0]penalize companies for assisting
repressive regimes in censoring the Internet may finally be [1]headed to
a vote. The Global Online Freedom Act ‘would not only prevent companies
like Yahoo from giving up the goods to totalitarian regimes, but would
also prohibit US-based Internet companies from blocking online content
from US government or government-financed web sites in other countries.’
Unfortunately, there’s also a giant loophole: the president would be
allowed to waive the provisions of the Act for national security
purposes.”

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Links:
0. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080501-bill-would-penalize-companies-for-aiding-internet-censorship.html
1. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-275