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...York have been largely excluded from the courtroom. Because of tight restrictions observed by the presiding Judge Richard Berman, not a single Pakistani reporter had been granted a press credential when opening statements began on Tuesday. They were instead sent to an overflow courtroom to watch the proceedings via video link. (See the case against Aafia Siddiqui...
...historical). Consider that in a 2006 study of 138 censuses from around the world, New York University sociologist Ann Morning found that only 15% of those asking about ancestry or national origin used the term race. Almost all of those that did were former slave economies. (See a video of perspectives in Harlem on President Obama's first year in office...
...Internet restrictions, opponents say, are yet another attempt by Berlusconi's party to protect Mediaset's bottom line in the age of online video sharing. "This decree is an enormous gift to Mediaset," says Paolo Gentiloni, a former Communications Minister who is now the opposition's point man on media policy. "We suspect that this maneuver is aimed at slowing the growth of the web's video offerings by a government that has a personal interest in supporting private TV." Dario Denni, head of the Italian Association of Internet Providers, used this analogy to describe the new rule...
...could affect individual bloggers and the owners of start-up websites that feature video content, though enforcement over such a wide array of people would be incredibly difficult. Like in China, the government's main target is Google, which is in an ongoing battle with Mediaset over copyright revenue for network programming that winds up on YouTube. The new rules would require Internet service providers to remove content the state deems is in violation of copyright law, or face a fine of up to $210,000. "We are concerned over the fact that Internet service providers, like YouTube, that simply...
...opponents say the video measure is just one of a series of moves by the government to target what it perceives as unfettered web activity. Prosecutors have leveled criminal charges against four Google executives because a video depicting an ugly episode of school bullying remained on YouTube for several hours in 2006 before it was removed. Interior Minister Roberto Maroni also asked Facebook to shut down two anti-Berlusconi fan pages in recent months - one entitled "Let's Kill Berlusconi" and another set up to praise the mentally ill man who attacked the Prime Minister in Milan in December...