{"id":412018,"date":"2010-03-10T13:21:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T18:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/?p=7020"},"modified":"2010-03-10T13:21:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T18:21:30","slug":"treasury-eases-rules-on-exporting-free-speech-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/412018","title":{"rendered":"Treasury eases rules on exporting free speech tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This move <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cio.com\/article\/568713\/U.S._Treasury_As_Free_Speech_Purveyor?source=CIONLE_nlt_insider_2010-03-10\" >just makes sense<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From the link:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Looking to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/news\/2009\/072009-iran-censorship-tools.html\">facilitate<\/a> what it calls free\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/community\/node\/57486\">speech<\/a> rights in countries that don\u2019t look favorably at such liberties, the US government today said it would ease the regulations around\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/slideshows\/2008\/051208-how-chinese-internet-is-different.html\">exporting<\/a> Internet-based\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/news\/2009\/121809-twitters-love-hate-relationship-with.html\">applications<\/a> such as e-mail, blogging and social networking software to Iran, Sudan and Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/OFRUpload\/OFRData\/2010-05023_PI.pdf\">Treasury Department<\/a> said it would add general licenses authorizing the exportation of free personal Internet-based communications services \u2013 such as instant messaging, chat and email, and social networking \u2013 to Cuba, Iran and Sudan. The amendments also allow the exportation of related software to Iran and Sudan, the department said in a release (the US Commerce Department controls software exports with Cuba). Until now all such exports were would have broken federal laws.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7020\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7020\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7020\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7020\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7020\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7020\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7020\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7020\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7020\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7020\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2464417&#038;post=7020&#038;subd=davidkirkpatrick&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This move just makes sense. From the link: Looking to\u00a0facilitate what it calls free\u00a0speech rights in countries that don\u2019t look favorably at such liberties, the US government today said it would ease the regulations around\u00a0exporting Internet-based\u00a0applications such as e-mail, blogging and social networking software to Iran, Sudan and Cuba. Specifically the\u00a0Treasury Department said it would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4050,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4050"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}