FACT - Freedom Against Censorship Thailand

[FACT comments: Just don't mess with our Internet!]

Analysis:  Russia–Increased Attempts to Regulate Internet
Open Source Center: March 24, 2008

http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2008/03/osc-russia.html

Three bills under consideration in the Federal Assembly suggest the government is considering extending its control over the Internet, particularly the blogosphere, one of the few alternative sources of information and collaboration open to the opposition in the face of increasing government control of the mainstream media…The bills have aroused some  public controversy and even apparent opposition from some senior officials, with one of the proposed laws already being amended to remove provisions affecting the Internet. Government proponents have tried to reassure Internet users that these bills would not lead to censorship or limits on Internet access.