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A controversial French digital economy bill is being discussed.	The bill includes language that would make Internet service providers liable for content on websites that they host.
A new UK digital rights group is set up.	The Open Rights Group (Org) will serve as a hub for other cyber-rights groups campaigning on digital rights issues. Org emulates US's Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) digital rights group. ZDNet reports that Org has centred its focus on the proposed draft EU framework on data retention for ISPs and telecommunications companies which it believes could contravene the European Convention on Human Rights.
Another blogger gets jail sentence.	Reporters without Borders report: an Iranian weblog editor has been imprisoned and fined for supposedly insulting the country's leaders and making anti-government propaganda.
Apple v. ThinkSecret : confidentiality of sources must be respected.	Reporters Without Borders call for online journalists, as well as journalist website operators and bloggers, to be accorded the same legal protections as journalists with the traditional press.
China censors Wikipedia.	The authorities are censoring Wikipedia in the same way that they censor thousands of websites with information that strays from the official Chinese propaganda, RSF report.
Court ruling protecting bloggers’ sources hailed as historic.	A Californian appeal court has decreed that online journalists and bloggers have the same right to protect their sources as other kinds of journalists. The ruling was issued in a case between the US electronics manufacturer Apple and websites that posted confidential information about some of its products. The Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF's) petition on behalf of three online journalists was upheld. See more on the Apple v. Does case, including FAQ's.
FBI returns Indymedia news servers.	The Electronic Frontier Foundation is concerned about implications of this seizure for free speech and privacy, and improper and unconstitutional silencing of independent media.
Fears raised over digital rights.	The National Consumer Council (NCC) has called for new laws to protect users' rights to use digital music and movies.
Freedom of Expression Project	This site investigates the way that networked digital communications are spreading across the globe – and what this means for freedom of expression.
Gambian Newspaper editor shot dead in Banjul.	Deyda Hydara, editor of The Point newspaper and correspondent for the AFP news agency and Reporters Withour Borders was shot dead in Banjul. Hydara has been an outspoken critic of government attempts to muzzle the press and silence dissident voices.