Canadian experts are divided on the recommendations and significance of a United Nations report that linked Internet use to freedom of expression and criticized some countries’ approaches to copyright infringement.

The report from Frank La Rue, UN special rapporteur on freedom of expression, released last week, called the Internet a special communications medium for its instant, inexpensive and international capabilities, and said “there should be as little restriction as possible to the flow of information via the Internet, except in few, exceptional, and limited circumstances prescribed by international human rights law.”

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