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EDRI-Gram Newsletter had an interesting piece of news about Internet censorship in Turkey. Please, find it below:

OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) Media Freedom
representative Miklos Haraszti asked the Turkish Government on 18 January to
change their Internet law in order to observe OSCE commitments and other
international standards protecting freedom of expression.

A survey commissioned by Haraszti's office, analyzing Turkey's Internet Law
in force since 2007, has sh… Continue

Ambassador Milton A. Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy 2010: March 17 - 19, 2010
at the Diplomatic Academy Vienna, http://www.aaf-online.org/how-to-apply.90.html

Ukraine may adopt a law that will enable ISPs to monitor user's and block their access to some online content. P.S. The presidential elections are in January 2010.
Here is the information from http://bmeyes.blogspot.com/2009/10/ukrainian-404-error-for-everybody-404.html… Continue

The discussion turned out to be active and hot, although there were not many new issues raised. In my opinion, the most interesting part of the discussion was the information about the practices and initiatives that are already in place.

The first part of the debates was dedicated to the role and integrity of social network websites in the life of current generation, especially the youth. It turned out that there were a couple of young people in the audience that did not have any social… Continue

This workshop was a useful one as it addressed emerging cyber security issues. Unfortunately, the question of PPPs was not addressed well, as most of the presentations were about importance of privacy and security.
One of the issues that most of the stakeholders agree is that child abuse needs to be prevented. Other issues are a subject to debate, among them phishing, malware and criminal money. There is also a danger of clashes of what to prevent. It is also a widespread perception of the Inter… Continue