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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;line-height:22px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">PARIS — As a rising tide of digital dissent raises alarms in many capitals around the world, the </span><a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/o/organization_for_economic_cooperation_and_development/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development" class="meta-org" style="color:rgb(0,66,118);font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;line-height:22px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;line-height:22px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> on Tuesday called on member countries to “promote and protect the global free flow of information” online.</span></blockquote>

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In Russia there were reports of a crackdown on Web-borne dissent before and after parliamentary elections this month. Russia was one of a number of countries that blocked the adoption of a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/world/europe/a-proposal-for-freedoms-in-cyberspace-meets-resistance.html?ref=organizationforsecurityandcooperationineurope" style="color:rgb(0,66,118)">U.S.-backed declaration of online freedoms</a> this month at a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.<br>

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Russian officials, along with those of some developing countries, have made no secret of their desire to regulate the Internet at an international level, under the auspices of the International Telecommunications Union, a United Nations agency. The O.E.C.D document, by contrast, endorses the existing, dispersed model of Internet governance, under which governments, business organizations and groups representing Internet users all have a say.</blockquote>

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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;line-height:22px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The move by the O.E.C.D. on Tuesday “validates, defends and promotes an Internet model that is not government led, but led by the technical community and the private sector,” said Markus Kummer, vice president for public policy at the </span><a href="http://www.isoc.org/" style="color:rgb(0,66,118);font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;line-height:22px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Internet Society</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;line-height:22px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> , whose members include technology companies and educational institutions. “I think it is timely to remember some basic cornerstones, when there is increased pressure on governments to get involved in a more hands-on way.”</span></blockquote>

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