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China’s not the only country with strict web laws.

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When it comes to the Internet, however, Congress, the White House, technology companies, and civil liberties groups are all on the same page: All agree that the United Nations – a body representing the interests of governments – should not be given control over a globally interconnected network that transcends the geography of nation-states. The Internet is too valuable to be managed by governments alone. Yet there is less agreement over how well the alternative “multistakeholder” model of Internet governance is working – or whether it is really serving all of us as well as it might.

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Some Ohio children with disabilities are regularly isolated in cell-like rooms, closets or old offices when they behave badly, and the state has no laws to regulate their use.

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Federal Prosecutors in Seattle Are Dragging Activists into Grand Juries

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“Lots of people in the world depend on electronic security. That means it has to be seriously strong, and I have been worrying that lots of folks –esp media folks – are eager for easy-to-use shortcuts, even if those shortcuts aren’t actually secure.”
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Moroccan activists say lifting a ban on eating in public during Ramadan would promote a culture of tolerance and acceptance.

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Recent online coverage of the Pussy Riot trial makes it seem as if all of Russia is mobilized in protest against the inordinately harsh treatment the three arrested band members have received.

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In Arabic (بالعربية) Syria’s airforce intelligence service refused to comply with a judge’s request to produce Mazen Darwish, the head of the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), in court on 6 August, at a hearing for those arrested  during a raid on the centre’s Damascus headquarters on 16 February.

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