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Chinese Government OS Will Further Enable Suppression: Berin Szoka in the E-Commerce Times

August 26, 2014

The Chinese government is developing an operating system to supplant those of Google and Microsoft in the authoritarian nation, according to the state-controlled Xinhua news...


Iran’s Zuckerberg Summons is Latest Attempt to Cripple Social Networks: Berin Szoka in TechNewsWorld

May 28, 2014

An Iranian court has summoned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg over supposed privacy violations — while lawyers say he will not respond to the summons, this...


ICANN should be accountable, not controlled by foreign governments or the UN: Berin Szoka on The Blaze

March 18, 2014

Friday, the US announced it would give up its control over the Internet’s architecture when the current contract with ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and...


Garcia court’s indecent manipulation of copyright to censor speech.

March 2, 2014

Some things are just indecent. Some might be so indecent that we want judges to use the law to prevent the harm, outrage, and disgust...


FCC Study Will Impact Editorial Judgment, We Tell Comm Daily

February 14, 2014

This week, FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai penned a Wall Street Journal op-ed criticizing the agency’s Critical Information Needs (CIN) study, which will ask media outlets a...


Video Game Censorship Makes Forbes List of 2013’s Most Ridiculous Bans

January 3, 2014

2013 saw so many products outlawed that Forbes writer Eli Federman compiled a list of the year’s top five most ridiculous bans. Coming in at...