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Updated: 11 May 2006   
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Freedom of Speech on the Internet
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Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen routinely makes jokes about Kazakhstan on his HBO television show, "Da Ali G Show." The Kazakh government has responded by shutting down the Kazakh Web site he uses. The international organization Reporters Without Borders says this amounts to censorship, but others argue that every nation has its own right to determine what Web sites to host.

Question: Does a nation have the right to block a libelous Web site, even if the material is clearly meant as satire?


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