Kazakhstan online censorship bill
p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- A bill defining the Internet as “mass media” gives officials, “more authority to crack down on websites and other content providers, says RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service, quoted by Radio Free Europe.
This threatens to further narrow Kazakhs’, “already limited access to nonstate sources of news and information,” says the story.
“The draft law permits Kazakhstan’s prosecutor-general to block information on the Internet if it is deemed to be in violation of any Kazakh laws.”
Movement For Free Internet protested the bill’s passage by sending a computer keyboard bound in chains to parliament speaker Oral Mukhamedzhanov, says Radio Free Europe, adding:
“Tamara Kaleeva, the president of the Almaty-based nongovernmental group Adil Soz (The Just Word), says that if the law is approved by the Senate and signed by President Nursultan Nazarbaev, officials will essentially have a free hand to filter online information on both Kazakh- and foreign-based websites.”
Radio Free Europe – Kazakh Bill Hands Officials Blunt Tool To Block Websites, April 29, 2009
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May 1st, 2009 at 3:33 pm
That´s bad, that´s my birthplace.
R.I.P Freedom
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