• Who Protects The Internet?
    By: brendan
    Date: 05 Dec 2008
    Who protects the internet? In part, it’s this man – General Kevin Chilton, US STRATCOM commander and the head of all military cyber warfare.
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  • Berlusconi plans to use G8 presidency to 'regulate the internet'
    By: brendan
    Date: 04 Dec 2008
    Italian president and media baron Silvio Berlusconi said today that he would use his country's imminent presidency of the G8 group to push for an international agreement to "regulate the internet".
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  • Anti Internet filtering rebels hit the streets
    By: brendan
    Date: 04 Dec 2008
    Opponents to the government's Internet content filtering scheme will take to the streets in a series of protests planned in Australia's capital cities.
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  • The Day The Web Went Dead
    By: brendan
    Date: 04 Dec 2008
    On Oct. 30, Sprint Nextel severed its last connection to Cogent Communications, disconnecting two of the Internet's five largest backbones. Instantly, major American and Canadian universities lost contact with each other. Officials in Maine's state government found they couldn't link up with many town governments. Millions of Sprint's wireless broadband customers found themselves cut off from thousands of Web sites. Yet neither the Federal Communications Commission nor the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission took any action to restore global connectivity and the Web stayed broken for three days.
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  • Berlusconi plans to use G8 presidency to 'regulate the internet'
    By: charles
    Date: 03 Dec 2008
    Italian president and media baron Silvio Berlusconi said today that he would use his country's imminent presidency of the G8 group to push for an international agreement to "regulate the internet".
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  • Bush administration faces new challenges to spying powers
    By: brendan
    Date: 03 Dec 2008
    A federal judge in San Francisco is asked to strike down Congress' grant of retroactive immunity for domestic wiretapping, and to allow a lawsuit over monitoring of the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation.
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  • Australian firewall trials start
    By: brendan
    Date: 03 Dec 2008
    "This would see the government establishing a blacklist of websites it deems harmful and ISPs providing a clean feed of the internet," said Mr Morton.
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  • Vietnam seeks Google, Yahoo! help to control bloggers: reports
    By: brendan
    Date: 03 Dec 2008
    HANOI (AFP) — Communist Vietnam wants Internet giants Google and Yahoo! to help "regulate" the country's flourishing blogging scene, state media said Tuesday, and stop "incorrect information" being published online.
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  • No sign that jailed blogger Dieu Cay will get fair appeal
    By: brendan
    Date: 03 Dec 2008
    “The refusal to let foreign journalists cover the hearing, which is supposed to be public, is indicative of the way these proceedings have been conducted,” Reporters Without Borders said.
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  • Australian plans to censor the web to protect children has libertarians up in arms
    By: brendan
    Date: 02 Dec 2008
    The plan to impose mandatory filtering on Internet Service Providers has invoked the ire of a new generation of civil libertarians who regard any such move as a threat to their freedom and even some children's welfare groups say that mandatory filters, pointedly aimed at protecting children, are ineffective and a waste of money.
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