Thursday, November 25, 2010


In particular, it is reported that these European countries favor the development of international rules that forbid private firms to deliver high-tech equipment used for Internet censorship. That question was the principal at the first ever meeting of the working group on free speech on the Internet, held in Paris. It was attended by representatives of 20 countries, as well as specialists from Google and Microsoft.
An example of violation of this position is to provide the German industrial conglomerate Siemens and Nokia for the Finnish telecommunications technologies dissent Iranian government. In addition, there is information that the French telephone equipment maker Alcatel has provided Myanmar listening devices, and Cisco corporation provides encoders China.
During the meeting it was decided that the development of specific measures to ensure that the Internet has remained a universal forum, is a priority.The representatives of France and the Netherlands also intend in October this year to hold a ministerial meeting to flesh out the aforementioned rules.

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