Pakistani Press Foundation Owais Aslan Ali talks about “Economic factors affecting access; How to make the Internet work for the ‘offline community’.”

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INQ7.net editor JV Rufino takes on “Economic pressures on online news media.”

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The third session of the day focused on the Non-legal, non-technological pressures on the Internet., Global Voices/Berkman Center’s Rebecca Mackinnon talks about “The Business of the Internet: Lessons from Google, Yahoo! and MSN in China.”

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RSF Jeff Ooi from Kuala Lumpur talks about “Terrorism and national security laws affecting cyberspace.”

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James Gomez asks “Who needs Filtering?” and discusses “Defamation in Singapore.”

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The second session of the day focused on the The Law, Article 19 Dini Widiastuti scans through “Traditional media/insult laws affecting Internet in Asia.”

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(AFP) - Internet media and personal journals known as “blogs” offer Asians ways of getting around press restrictions under authoritarian governments, proponents said.

However, Asian governments will still try to crack down on new media, and advances in technology may actually help them monitor the messages being sent on the Internet, delegates at a Free Expression Asian Cyberspace conference warned.
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Global Voices Rebecca Mackinnon from Boston talks about “Collaborative models for bloggers and mainstream media from around the world.”

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Manuel L Quezon III talks about “Tag-teaming against the President: Philippine case study on how bloggers and mainstream media kept a ‘banned’ conversation going online.”

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The third session of the day focused on the The Power of Citizen Journalism, Andrew Lih talks about “Independent blogging/podcasting in China.”

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