Sentence examples for internet legislation from inspiring English sources

But in cyberspace, where bloggers rage against any Internet legislation, an uprising has already begun.

Human Rights Watch called Tuesday for the high court to strike down the law and for any new Internet legislation to be debated openly.

Agnès Callamard of Article 19, a human rights group, complained of "a decade of regressive internet legislation" that has seen nations of all flavours aim to curtail free expression online.

Why can't this money be officially given to the opposition and show that the money has been given?" The Internet legislation passed equally swiftly, with a vote of 147 lawmakers in favor, 3 abstaining and none opposed.

The watershed moment in confronting website visitors and app users with a specific political call to action was the online battle against two pieces of internet legislation: the Stop Online Piracy Act and the PROTECT IP Act (SOPA and PIPA).

For example, although the international agreement ACTA was stalled after the SOPA/PIPA reversal in the United States, the online community in Russia was not able to stop the passage of recent Internet legislation that now allows deep-packet inspection and gives the Russian government the ability to take down websites.

It's also worth noting that Cunha is not the only one behind the anti-internet legislation, and that the aforementioned bills are not the only ones on the table — or even the worst.

In this context, the proposed anti-internet legislation is a direct reaction to this emerging digital empowerment, and a multi-pronged attack on social media — restricting access for Brazil's poor and youth demographics to access the internet, criminalizing the posting of practically all video, photo and audio content, and censoring voices out of favor with the current government.

Few expect Internet privacy legislation in Congress this year.

Jack L. Goldsmith, What Internet Gambling Legislation Teaches about Internet Regulation, 32 Int'l Law.

But we should hope Australia will be the last to pass such unnecessarily clumsy Internet content legislation.