Tuesday, August 31, 2010


Internet free speech protected in the Middle East

By David Gewirtz 
If you haven’t been following Jordanian politics particularly closely (and why would you?), you might have missed an important debate.
Jordan (the Middle Eastern country, not the insanely endowed British model or the best basketball player of all time), has been working towards enacting an Information Systems Crimes Law (which is also known as their Cyber Crimes Law). In doing so, they’ve been trying to define for their nation exactly what constitutes a cybercrime and/or an act of cyberterrorism.