Drafted by Sanjana Hattotuwa, Senior Researcher, Centre for Policy Alternatives. Not to be quoted without attribution. (Used as a background note in the discussion on the regulations with Beyond Borders on 22nd November 2008) Download the proposed regulations here. Download this document as a formatted PDF here. 1. The absence of any definition of […]
Tag Archives: IP-TV
Gagging the web and Internet: Implications of the proposed Private TV Broadcasting Regulations in Sri Lanka
Censorship of media in Sri Lanka isn’t a new phenomenon, but the Rajapakse regime took it a step further recently when it recently promulgated a new set of regulations through a gazette notification, called the Private Television Broadcasting Station Regulations. The over broad and ill-defined regulations, in parts copied and pasted verbatim from Indian Cable TV […]
Outlawed: Extraordinary Rendition, Torture and Disappearances in the ‘War on Terror on Joost
Posting this from within Joost both as a test of the in-built blogging capability of the programme and also to alert readers to a programme that is truly worth watching (part of the Witness channel). < From Joost: Outlawed: Extraordinary Rendition, Torture and Disappearances in the ‘War on Terror Outlawed tells the harrowing stories of […]
Joost
I’ve been an occasional user of Joost since around 6 months ago when I got the first invite only version to work on my Mac. This week, Joost released the first public beta and came out of the closed testing cycle. What amazes me about the this beta is not so much the video quality, but […]
