De Lille’s regulation call causes storm in cyber space

In a statement posted on the ID Web site, De Lille said MXit was destroying marriages and allowing children to be lured into traps by sexual predators, and blogs allowed anonymous members of the public ‘to slander and defame individuals and organisations they do not like’. Her comments have angered many SA bloggers. However, De Lille says she has been misunderstood. ‘I am a living example of fighting for freedom of speech,’ she told the Mail & Guardian Online yesterday. ‘The first court case in the new SA for the right to freedom of speech was fought by me and won.’ Full Mail & Guardian Online report Statement on ID site

More and more countries are beginning to censor the Internet. A New study has found governments are increasingly restricting their citizens from accessing certain Internet content or from using particular services, says a report in today’s issue of eLaw & Management. It says a study of Internet \'filtering\' by the OpenNet Initiative – a collaborative effort involving researchers at Cambridge, Harvard, Oxford and Toronto universities – found evidence of it happening in 25 of the 40 countries investigated. This is just one of a comprehensive list of IT law reports featured in the latest issue of our weekly companion product. The popular newsletter provides subscribers with an overview of global developments in electronic law and technology risk. for a free month\'s trial subscription to our eLaw & Management news service.