What laws restrict free speech on the internet?
The law is flustered and in flux over the internet. There are no international laws governing internet use. At present different countries’ different laws apply to internet communications and content, although there are problems tracing just who is responsible for sites, particularly when they originate from, and are hosted in, foreign countries. Despite this, most governments are in the process of developing new laws to better monitor and control internet content. Often it is the Internet Service Providers (ISPs), the “publishers” who provide web space, who have been held responsible for internet content that individuals are the authors of. The anti-censorship pressure group, Campaign Against Censorship of the Internet in Britain, was created in response Scotland Yard’s request to ISPs to censor their news feeds What kind of free speech fights have broken out over the internet? The way the internet developed, spontaneously and unregulated, led to many of its users to idealise its uniq
