I've just doubled the number of international net-censorship efforts that I track on my web page: <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~declan/zambia/>. Included are new updates reporting on Germany, France, Australia, Singapore, Canada, and China, among others. Please send me reports on countries I've missed! -Declan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- OTHER INTERNATIONAL NET-CENSOR EFFORTS By Declan McCullagh declan@well.com http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~declan/zambia/ France, China, Germany, Singapore, Jordan, the U.S., and many other countries are moving towards tighter control of the Internet. France and Germany want to see an international agreement of information controls emerge. Recently China required all of its estimated 40,000 Internet users to register at the local police station. This international crackdown marks a turning point in the development of the Net. Germany Germany cuts off access to holocaust revisionist web site (1/96) German Internet update, new laws planned (3/29/96) Los Angeles Times on German vs. U.S. netcensorship (3/13/96) German minister predicts collapse of governments (3/12/96) Germany's CompuServe net-censorship (12/31/95) France French government bans controversial book (1/96) French Jewish students sue ISPs for revisionist materials (3/14/96) French Jewish students sue ISPs for revisionist materials (3/15/96) France calls for "global Internet rules" (2/3/96) Europe Swiss statement on voice over Internet (3/16/96) Sweden proposes CDA-type law to control Internet (4/3/96) Italian net-censorship necessary, says Simon Wiesenthal Ctr (1/11/96) Turkey cracks down on Internet (2/18/96) Belgium bans non-escrowed encryption (1/10/96) Asia and Pacific Rim Singapore leader condemns Net (3/7/96) Indonesia attacks Net (3/11/96) Malaysia complains about uncensored Net, censors it (3/11/96) Singapore censors political, religious net.info (3/6/96) China China cracks down on Internet, "state security" cited (1/24/96) China's anti-cyberporn efforts (2/4/96) New York Times on China's net.crackdown (2/5/96) China's history of Net-regulation, cyberporn concerns (1/1/96) China requires Internet users to register with police (2/16/96) U.S. State Dept criticizes China's net.censorship (3/8/96) China applauds German net.censorship (1/11/96) Australia Australia considers net.legislation (2/13/96) New South Wales tries net-censorship (4/3/96) Australians upset by German Zundelcensorship (4/7/96) Canada Letter to Canadian minister (3/19/96) Canada needs to regulate Net, says Simon Wiesenthal Ctr (2/20/96) Middle East Persian Gulf States reluctant to move online (4/6/96) Jordan installs Internet screening facility (1/8/96) Saudi Arabian government says no unrestricted Net access (1/10/96) --------------------------------------------------------------------------