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37 The Anti-Terrorism Act 2005 revived laws against sedition and unlawful association. The unlawful association provisions have been used widely since their enactment with the banning of several organizations perceived to be potentially dangerous in terms of intentions to commit violent acts. 38 The sedition provisions, however, have not been used. 39 Australian defamation law has been interpreted liberally, 40 and is governed by legislation passed by the states as well as common-law principles.

According to some estimates, pirated programs account for 80 percent of the software market in the country. In one recent case, student Parviz Azimov was expelled from Lankaran State University early 2009 after writing a blog post on corruption during exams, which was later republished by one local and two national newspapers. Protests near the Ministry of Education in Baku by the Dalgha youth movement, to which Azimov belonged, combined with pressure from international organizations, led to a court decision allowing him to return to the university.

For example, a number of pages were established to memorialize Trinity Bates, a young girl who was abducted and brutally murdered in February 2010, and to call for violence against the accused killer. 55 There have been a number of politically motivated cyberattacks, more specifically known as denial-of-service attacks (DoS) which have led to websites being inaccessible or flooded with substituted content for various lengths of time. The most well known attack is commonly referred to as Operation Titstorm.

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