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CJFE Review of Free Expression in Canada to launch on World Press Freedom Day
World Day Against Cyber Censorship 2012

March 12 marks the annual World Day Against Cyber Censorship, a day to advance and celebrate a free Internet as an open window to the world and denounce the attacks made on the free flow of information online.
Twitter now able to censor tweets by country

With a recent policy change, Twitter is now censoring tweets by location, and restricting content by country.
Websites go dark in protest of SOPA and PIPA

Today Wikipedia, Google, Reddit, WordPress, and numerous other websites protest the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA).
Supreme Court’s hyperlinking decision a victory for freedom of expression on the Internet
Defending the Hyperlink

A landmark case concerning hyperlink liability is the first in Canada to reach the Supreme Court and has broad implications for free expression online. Wayne Crookes, a former Green Party campaign manager and businessman, is suing writer Jon Newton for defamation based on a hyperlink to an online article written by Newton that contained allegedly libellous statements.
Campaigning for a Free Internet on World Day Against Cyber Censorship

World Day Against Cyber Censorship was launched on March 12, 2008, by Reporters Without Borders to rally support for a free Internet without restrictions and accessible to all. In 2011, CJFE is advancing the campaign for a free internet by highlighting two bloggers and journalists who have been arrested or harassed for expressing their views online, Hossein Derakhshan and Oleg Kashin.
TMG Protests Restrictions and Attacks Against Rights Defenders and Websites
Free expression groups pull out of WSIS Event
CJFE calls on CRTC to review its decision
Vietnam Blocks Toronto-based Free Speech Website
Final frontier for free speech under siege: a special report on Internet censorship
Review of Free Expression in Canada 2011/2012
Online Q&A: Digital privacy and free expression

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Book Launch: "Blocked on Weibo"

The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON.

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