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By Alex Johnston Epoch Times Staff Created: December 3, 2012 Last Updated: December 4, 2012

Flags fly at the United Nations. Google issued a warning that United Nations countries need to maintain an open and uncensored Internet during closed-door talks on the worlds global telecommunications treaty. (Amal Chen/The Epoch Times)

Google issued a warning that United Nations countries need to maintain an open and uncensored Internet during closed-door talks on the worlds global telecommunications treaty, while U.N. officials tried to assuage public fears, saying there would be no new curbs on Internet freedom.

There have been concerns that the 193-member International Telecommunication Union (ITU) talks in Dubai from Dec. 3 to Dec. 14 will result in increased Internet regulations, with countries like China and Russia claiming they need to increase monitoring and create more Web blockades.

Love the free and open Internet? Tell the worlds governments to keep it that way, reads Googles splash page Monday.

The conference has raised concerns as to how much power the U.N. has over the Internet in terms of regulation.

Vint Cerf, Googles vice president and self-described Internet evangelist, said in a blog posting Sunday that starting in 1973, when my colleagues and I proposed the technology behind the Internet, we advocated for an open standard to connect computer networks together.

Vint Cerf, vice president, Google

But starting in a few hours, a closed-door meeting of the worlds governments is taking place in Dubai, and regulation of the Internet is on the agenda, he said. Cerf took issue with the fact that only governments are allowed to vote on the decades-old treaty.

Some proposals could allow governments to justify the censorship of legitimate speech, or even cut off Internet access in their countries, he said.

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In many countries, journalists have to fight censorship when trying to publish critical stories. The organization Reporters Without Borders has launched a website to publish stories otherwise suppressed by the censors.

When something is banned, it's bound get people curious. Videos and images that are suppressed, therefore, often spread like wildfire on the Internet: the topless photos of Kate Middleton, future queen of England, were online everywhere within hours. And it's this principle that Reporters Without Borders now wants to use for journalistic content.

"We believe that there has to be a platform to publish stories that are being censored in the very countries where they should be published," Matthias Spielkamp, board member of Reporter Without Borders in Germany, told DW. The focus is explicitly on well-researched features by journalists who, because of a lack of press freedom, cannot publishtheir storiesin their country's newspapers, TV or radio.

The website is not meant to be platform like WikiLeaks and isnot intended to bea place for tabloid stories, Spielkamp explained. The project is getting financial support from the European Union, the city of Paris and from donations.

Support for censored authors

One of the first stories published is from Morocco, whereOmar Brouksy is no longer allowed to workas a publisher. In October, the government withdrew his accreditation because the journalist had beenoverly critical of the royal family's role during a recentelection.

Brouksy's text, however, continues to be available online. Reporters Without Borders published the piece in agreement with the author on their website, wefightcensorship.org. Online with text,the page also explainswhy each story is being censored.

The website offers to publish anymaterial that's being censored in an author's home country.Articles are sent anonymously, and in a way that the author's identity cannot be traced. Reporters Without Borders, which itself does ask for the author's identity to check whether the story is credible,offers to keep the writers anonymous for their own protection,explained Spielkamp.

Should the stories not be writtenin English or France, they will be translated for the page. All the material will also be offered for download, and even outrightcopying of an entire workisencouraged. Readers can post the stories on social media networks as well as on a list of regional services.

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A U.N. conference that kicked off today in Dubai has sparked fear of Internet censorship in the U.S. -- something U.S. Ambassador Terry Kramer said he is doing everything in his power to prevent.

Nothing regarding the Internet do we want subject to U.N. review and regulation, Kramer told FoxNews.com.

Monday marked the first day of an 11-day conference. Kramer, who leads the U.S. delegation at the conference, said that the first day had gone well and so far delegates are still in the early stage, talking about what should be reviewed when. No specific regulations have been debated yet.

- Terry Kramer, U.S. chief envoy to the ITU

But regulations likely to come up soon are far reaching with signification ramifications, ranging from changes to the way web addresses like ".com" are distributed to charging websites for sending information (for example, a company like Google or Amazon could be required to pay cable companies a charge every time someone used their site.)

[Proposals] on content review and on pricing the transfer of content, which would essentially tax the Internet we are actively opposing those, Kramer said.

While almost all of the U.N. meeting is secret, many documents have leaked, including one proposal from the Russian delegation declaring "the sovereign right to regulate the national Internet segment."

It echoes a call from Russian President Vladimir Putin last year calling for global control over such [Internet] exchange. This is certainly a priority on the international agenda.

Kramer said the Russian proposal worried him.

Candidly, we were very concerned with the Russian proposal. I think it was the most stark in nature of all the proposals that have been put out, because it basically is proposing Internet governance managed either by the ITU or the national government. There are traffic routing proposals in there that would open the door to potential censorship, which obviously we dont agree with, Kramer said.

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