Protectionism Online: Internet Censorship and International Trade Law
Brian Hindley (
[email protected]) a Senior Fellow at ECIPE Hosuk Lee-Makiyama (
[email protected]) is a Visiting Fellow AbstrAct Internet is a global market place. The rapid development of the Internet, and especially of Internet-based com- merce, has largely taken place outside the standard trade-regulatory frameworks that cover most other forms of cross-border commerce. As the size of the Internet markets has grown, [...]
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Internet Censorship in China:Where Does the Filtering Occur?
Xueyang Xu, Z. Morley Mao, and J. Alex Halderman Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, 2260 Hayward Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 {xueyang,zmao,jhalderm}@umich.edu http://www.cse.umich.edu Abstract. China filters Internet traffic in and out of the country. In order to circumvent the firewall, it is helpful to know where the filtering occurs. In this work, we [...]
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Ethical Considerations in Technology
Thomas Locke University of Manitoba EDUB 2330 A33 October 7, 2008 Computer ethics are one of the most important issues that society is faced with today. Because of their ability to perform a multitude of functions, desktop computers are everywhere. They can be found in almost every home, office, commercial establishment, research laboratory and school [...]
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Internet Censorship in Mainland China
Cui Dawei Academic Writing Skills Group 16 Ms Yap-Choo Swi Neo May 11, 2006 Abstract The legitimacy of Internet censorship of China has long been an issue of heated debate. This paper discusses the background and the standpoints of both the censorship supporters and opponents. Through comparison and analysis, the author concludes that Internet censorship [...]
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The Internet and CNN Won’t (Soon) Free China
By Arslan Malik / August 15, 1997 Many have heralded communications technologies such as satellite dishes, fax machines, cellular phones, and the Internet as powerful weapons in the fight for democracy in closed societies. Not long ago, media mogul Rupert Murdoch boasted that his empire’s small satellite dishes were an “unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes.” [...]
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STATIC IN CYBERSPACE: FREE SPEECH ON THE INTERNET
JON WIENER At a time when Time Warner and Paramount Communications and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. have achieved near total domination over all hitherto existing media, many people have come to view the Internet (the computer network linking millions of users in a hundred countries) as a free space where critical and independent voices can [...]
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The control of the internet in Chinese societies: similarities, differences, and implications of internet policies in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore
Junhao Hong, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Communication School of Informatics State University of New York at Buffalo Introduction The global outreach of the Internet has made it a formidable empowering tool for world citizenry. It has lowered barriers to the creation and distribution of content that has been inaccessible to all generations due to [...]
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The Internet in Saudi Arabia
Khalid M. Al-Tawil College of Computer Sciences & Engineering King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Modern Saudi Arabian society, one of the world’s most conservative societies, is represented by a marked contrast with the largely isolated and undeveloped nation scarcely 50 years ago. Oil revenues that brought affluence also brought a [...]
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China’s model for a censored Internet
Some worry China’s controls could be copied elsewhere. By Kathleen E. McLaughlin | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor SHANGHAI, CHINA – As China began to go online, observers made brash predictions that the Internet would pry the country open. Cyberspace, the thinking went, would prove too vast and wild for Beijing to keep under [...]
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Human Cloning and Embryonic Stem Cell Research
A View from Theravda Buddhist Morality∗ Somparn Promta Philosophy Department and Center for Buddhist Studies Chulalongkorn University Bangkok, Thailand I hen the issue of human cloning and stem cell research has been raised to public discussion, people have responded to the issue in various ways. We can group the views of the people into two parts. The first [...]
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Human cloning: EasternMediterranean Region perspective
M. Abdur Rab1 and M.H. Khayat2 1WHO Representative (Sudan), Khartoum, Sudan (Correspondence to M. Abdur Rab:
[email protected] who.int). 2Senior Policy Adviser to the Regional Director, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, World Health Organization, Cairo, Egypt. ABSTRACT Recent advances in genomics and biotechnology have ushered in a new era in health development. Therapeutic cloning possesses enormous potential for [...]
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