Censorship and constraint on world telecommunications

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Panel to look into workings of cyber court
9 February 1998. The Second Multimedia Super Corridor’s International Advisory Panel meeing in Malaysia to set up international cyber court to enforce cyber laws on behalf of primarily European, US, and Japanese corporations.
Koran Parody Web Site up and running in the U.K.
From American Atheists, AANews, 10 July 1998. Cairo religious university succeeds in getting AOL to close down a Koran parody web site.
Internet List of Alleged Spies Multiplies
By T. R. Reid, Washington Post, 15 May 1999. Failure of British spy services to prevent diffusion of a list of British spies over Internet. Inability of governments to control flow of information.
Scientologists’ copyright suit shapes Net liability
By Dan Goodin, Staff Writer, CNET News.com, 9 June 1999. The Church of Scientology gets a Dutch court to support notion that linking to a site that violates copyright law is itself guilty.