The Japanese law "Act on Regulation and Punishment of Acts Relating to Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, and the Protection of Children" (the Child Pornography Prohibition Act) does not regulate virtual child pornography such as comics, cartoons, animation, and games. As a result, cases...

As the main instrument to regulate cyber activity, the most significant threat to freedom of expression on the internet in Indonesia comes from the Law No. 11 of 2008 on Electronic Information and Transactions (ITE Law). Instead of being a momentum to restore the according to human rights...

The author paints with a deliberately broad brush, beginning with a rapid traverse of changing attitudes within the Commonwealth to methods of rights protection. The article then asks why there have been such changes, and discusses, with some reference to the freedom of expression, how those...