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Title:
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CENSORSHIP IN CYBERSPACE: REGULATION OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN DIGITAL TIMES |
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Author(s):
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Yulia A. Timofeeva |
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ISBN:
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972-98947-5-2 |
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Editors:
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Pedro Isaías, Piet Kommers and Maggie McPherson |
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Year:
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2004 |
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Edition:
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2 |
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Keywords:
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Policy issues, Internet regulation, freedom of expression. |
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Type:
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Doctoral Paper |
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First Page:
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1167 |
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Last Page:
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1170 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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The Internet presented new challenges to the issue of censorship and freedom of expression and the present work
attempts to find a solution to these challenges that could be acceptable by more than one legal culture. The analysis is
undertaken from the legal perspective; however, in case of the Internet such approach would impermissibly narrow
research and weaken conclusion, that is why social, political, moral and other issues are also dealt with. While the right to
freedom of expression is at heart, the inquiry is very much Internet-specific; it defines the place and the meaning of the
Internet in the contemporary society and derives new arguments from the findings instead of revisiting traditional human
rights rhetoric and applying it to the Internet settings. One particular problem in the field is the absence of common
denominator for Internet speech regulation by different members of international community. More than just producing
occasional spillover effects, separate Internet speech regulations create a new attitude to the right to freedom of
expression bringing into being sophisticated system of restraints instead of enabling free flow of ideas. The work argues
that it really matters what kind of media the laws deal with; it reveals what harms and dangers can follow from separate
Internet censoring measures; and, finally, it demonstrates that it is both possible and necessary to move a little on the
attitudinal limb in the common direction of respect to freedom of expression on the Internet. |
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