Global Online Freedom Act
The Global Online Freedom Act is a legislative proposal by the US Congress that is supposed to prohibit online companies from working with states that censor freedom of information on the Internet . The reason was companies such as Google , Yahoo and Microsoft , which had approved the state-required self-censorship in China in order to be able to be active in the growing Chinese market.
The Republican Congressman Chris Smith introduced a total of six bills under the title Global Online Freedom Act (GOFA) between 2006 and 2013 , which in particular provided for appropriate export controls and state corporate supervision, but were not passed. Google had given up its initial opposition to such a regulation in 2010.
literature
- Ian Brown: The Global Online Freedom Act . In: Georgetown Journal of International Affairs , 2013, pp. 153-160 (English) JSTOR 43134395
- Sana Ahmed: Censorship and Surveillance in the Global Information Age: Are Telecommunications Companies Agents of Suppression or Revolution? In: Journal of Law, Technology, and the Internet , 2013, pp. 503-530 (English)
Web links
- David P. Fidler: The Internet, Human Rights, and US Foreign Policy: The Global Online Freedom Act of 2012 . American Society of International Law (ASIL), May 24, 2012 (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obama urged to punish US firms for aiding internet censorship The Guardian , June 30, 2009 (English)
- ↑ Last draft law with reference to all older ones. GovTrack.us; Retrieved February 19, 2016.
- ↑ HR 491 (113th): Global Online Freedom Act of 2013 in the last version of February 4, 2013
- ^ Smith Bill Promoting Online Freedom Is Passed by Key House Subcommittee . Chris Smith website, March 27, 2012
- ↑ Kim Hart: Rep. Smith: Google makes '180-degree turn' on bill backing Internet freedom The Hill, January 15, 2010