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International Issues

Too often we think, here in the United States, that only our laws exist in cyberspace. But the Internet is a global community, impacted by the laws of every jurisdiction in which netizens live, servers are located or the Internet is accessed.

As we build this section of our law and law enforcement division and international law division, we'd like to point out a few countries which are already restricting speech online.

Their motives range from protecting children from offensive content to protecting governments from criticism. Our discussion of Son of CDA, recently signed into law will be added shortly to this site, so be apprised, the U.S. is also restricting speech online.

  • Singapore requires that their ISPs censor information imported into Singapore.
  • Chinese Internet users must register with the government.
  • Germany has prosecuted executives of CompuServe for allowing German CompuServe members to access certain sites.
  • Saudi Arabia limits Internet access to academic and scientific community members.

And these are only a small sampling of the current international regulations affecting Internet content, use and access.

As you can see [above] we are currently developing a comprhensive legal section for the international community, but until we finish building this section, please refer to these terrific sites:

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