Meredith writes “A bill that would penalize companies for assisting repressive regimes in censoring the World wide web might finally be headed to a vote. The Global On the web Freedom Act ‘would not only prevent companies like Yahoo from giving up the goods to totalitarian regimes, but would also prohibit US-based World wide web companies from blocking on the internet content from US government or government-financed web sites in other countries.’ Unfortunately, there’s also a giant loophole: the president would be allowed to waive the provisions of the Act for national security purposes.”
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