Internet
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission: Regulate Internet
OTTAWA– Canadian actors made a case for new media funding at a hearing today before the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.
The performers helped kick off the first day of hearings on regulating online content by urging the CRTC to make Internet service providers follow the same rules as television and radio broadcasters and protect Canadian [...]
New York Times Pushes for Internet 2
Two decades ago a 23-year-old Cornell University graduate student brought the Internet to its knees with a simple software program that skipped from computer to computer at blinding speed, thoroughly clogging the then-tiny network in the space of a few hours.
The program was intended to be a digital “Kilroy Was Here.” Just a bit of [...]
Europe makes moves toward Internet censorship
Privacy advocates worry that filtering Internet sites related to piracy, terrorism, and child pornography will have serious effects on the freedom to communicate
A debate over the use of internet filtering is heating up in Europe. Privacy advocates and carriers are going head to head with authorities.
In Finland, programmer Matti Nikki is under investigation for publishing [...]
Nations Move to Filter and Censor Internet Access
Watchdog report; Countries increasingly view cyberspace as strategically important
The unbridled freedom that once characterized the Internet is gradually being reined in by states — democratic and authoritarian alike–as cyberspace is increasingly viewed as a strategic, geopolitical frontier, according to the Canadian co-author of a new international report.
Waning are the days of the World Wide Web [...]
Australia To Enforce Mandatory Chinese-Style Internet Censorship
The Australian government is set to impose Chinese-style Internet censorship by enforcing a universal national filter that will block websites deemed “controversial,” as part of a wider agenda to regulate the Internet according to free speech advocates.
The Government will block “controversial” websites with a universal national filter.
A provision whereby Internet users could opt out of [...]
Israel Recruits Army Of Bloggers To Troll Anti-War Websites
Israel has announced that it is setting up a network of bloggers to combat websites deemed “problematic” by the Zionist state, presumably to propagandize about the necessity of killing babies and infants in the name of self-defense.
Program mirrors U.S. Air Force, Centcom propaganda
Israel’s global reputation for being the new Nazis was already firmly established, but [...]
18Feb2009 | Winter Ross Charlton | 0 comments | Continued
Wikipedia Threatens to Delete List of Bilderberg Attendees
The lords of Wikipedia have announced they will delete the Bilderberg attendees list entry on the site because it is allegedly a “totally un-reliably-sourced list [and] possibly defamatory towards living persons.” The announced deletion will occur five days from 2009-02-18 at 14:53.
Wikipedia offers people concerned about this possible deletion the ability to edit the page. “You may [...]
