<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Today's Financial Times gives a current snapshot of free expression on the web, with a review including the OpenNet Initiative and the Global Network Initiative.<div><br></div><div>The article is <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">The internet: Closing the frontier. (For those who will not be able to get to the FT online, the pdf is below.)</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica, Helvetica, sans-serif">A couple of quotes:</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "> -- "More than 40 countries now apply some sort of barrier on the web, compared with a handful less than a decade ago ..."</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Besides the usual suspects, the article delves into Australia's filtering, the UK's planned IPR-protection scheme and Italy's conviction-in-absentia of executives.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px;">-- </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px;">This is not just about ... its about how the internet is going to be regulated globally.</span></font></div></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Exactly three companies have joined GNI - almost 20 others were recently castigated for failing so to do.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">David</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"></font></div></body></html>