The story of Jessi Slaughter is reaching Australia, perhaps, for all the wrong reasons. A professor has taken the story and is arguing for internet censorship, saying, "You simply ...
We continue with our 2009 year in review with part two of our three part review. Part one of three.
May
May started off with several stories pretty much ...
2008 was an interesting year in file-sharing and 2009 didn't necessarily disappoint. There was plenty of ways to look at it, but there is one way one can look ...
When a crime is committed, one would think that allegations can be disputed in court. Apparently, the Spanish government is currently considering a law that would allow rights holders ...
While the idea behind filtering the internet is no laughing matter, that doesn't stop satirists from making fun of the situation. A word of warning though, it's not advisable ...
Just days after Irish ISP Eircom decided to block the Pirate Bay as part of a "settlement" in court with the copyright industry, the Irish Pirate Party ...
Late last month, accusations emerged that BNN, a Canadian broadcaster, was actively censoring the copyright debate through copyright means. A spokesperson today contacted ZeroPaid to deny these ...
Call it ironic if you will, but there's a report surfacing that a Canadian broadcaster is taking down YouTube clips that debate copyright because of copyright violations. A blogger ...
Controversial or not, the proposed web censorship legislation is now one step closer to becoming law in Germany. All this after one member decided to become a ...
While the German Pirate Party failed to gain enough support to win a seat, fate, it seems, had other plans for the party. A German Social Democrat, Jörg Taussig, ...
A few months ago, when Wikileaks was blocked by Australian censors for leaking the Australian blacklist (later found to have legal websites in it), an editor famously remarked, ...
It's been one of the more heated debates surrounding technology in France today. The Loppsi 2 law proposal which would allow the French government to censor websites and allow ...
Says that the professor who insinuated that an unfiltered internet had no place in a democracy is misrepresenting the issue.
Yesterday, we highlighted a professor who called people at ...
Says people like the Electronic Frontier Australia are a bunch of extremists.
It may be difficult for some to read what this professor has published in Australian IT without ...
While it's something occurring in Britain, it also could affect talks between Britain and the United States too.
Controversy erupted yesterday over a plan to classify internet websites in ...
It may be another way to prove the futility of an internet blacklist mandated by the government.
With governments like Britain and Australia pushing for blacklisting websites ...
Britain and the United States next in line to filter the internet while saying the internet is nothing more than a broadcaster?
Last week, we posted a relatively thorough ...
Australian digital rights organizations are applauding the high turnout in a country-wide demonstration against proposed Australian internet blacklists.
The Electronic Frontiers Australia recently applauded the high turnout for protests ...
Last week, China started, among other things, blocking YouTube in an effort to stem the Tibet separation movement. This week, a number of reports point to the ...
Is it possible to control the internet or the free flow of information? It's a question that could easily be dismissed as a fools errand. Yet, in the ...
