[AFP] Government pressure on companies linked to social media networks is threatening to infringe civil liberties, an Internet forum in Egypt heard on Wednesday.”There is no jurisdiction on the planet in which companies do not come under some kind of pressure from government in some way to do things that arguably may infringe on the civil liberties of users,” Rebecca MacKinnon, co-founder of Global Voices, an international network of blogs said.
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