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| Wurl Posts: 819/842 |
I'm not sure, but I think internet publication is included on the list. |
| Cynthia Posts: 3267/5814 |
Anyone surprised that North Korea "won" yet again? Didn't think so.
I'm pretty sure that Britain is harsh on people posting unconfirmed stuff on the Internet; for example, names of people implicated in rape cases when the facts have not been officially announced. I know that happened a few years ago and people couldn't post info. Canada had a ban this year on bloggers posting election results before 10 PM, which is ludicrous. |
| blackhole89 Posts: 188/427 |
Somebody should compile such an index for internet publication freedom. 
Germany would be very far down on that... unlike printed media, internet publications are hardly protected by press freedom here; the "Abmahnung" (roughly translates to warning) system, which allows to send informal warnings for minor copyright violations or what could possibly be considered libel along with a cease and desist contract and a virtually freely adjustable lawyer fee, is often abused by "rogue lawyer bureaus" which earn their money for looking up copyright violations through Google and the likes (minor things like a scanned section of a local map on a homepage included) and sending warnings along with an ~$1000 or above lawyer fee bill. There's a virtually infinite count of things one could be "abgemahnt" for, so this system often is used to act against publications one does not agree with, given one has a sufficient amount of money and contacts. |
| Wurl Posts: 814/842 |
http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=554
No huge surprises here, but some disturbing rankings. The US domestic freedom of press has fallen pretty far down the list thanks mostly to the jailing of a reporter. In Iraq, the US has a terrible freedom of press rating, even by war-zone standards. Outside of the obvious "top secret" type stuff that goes along with war, reporter training by the US government brought it down. Sadly, a couple of other industrialized nations fell back thanks to new press laws, France being one. I'm not too up on that situation, but I think there were some crack downs after the riots earlier in the year. In addition, I think a couple of union papers were shut down. The usual dictatorships and a few nations with recent power changes are near the bottom, although many relatively new democracies placed well. Some good news, but plenty of bad. Hopefully things will improve as time goes on. Edit: The post-riot crap in France isn't counted, but it should show up on the next report. I think their fall on the list is related to a couple of new laws and the Union papers. |
