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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 25 Nov 2008
A SMALL computer file appeared on the Internet last week, purporting to list the 13,000 members of the racist, far-right British National Party. The text file contained not just the names of the party’s supporters, but their home addresses, home phone numbers and, in some cases, hobbies (including a fair sampling of model airplane and train collectors) and professions (including a few lawyers, doctors and teachers).
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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 25 Nov 2008
ContentWatch, the leading provider of Internet filtering and parental control software, announced the release of Net Nanny 6.0. This comes on the heels of adding a Mac filtering solution to its product line. With the release of Net Nanny 6.0 comes a variety of new features that further enhance the product's usability and expands the peace of mind that users have come to expect from this award-winning parental control solution.
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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 25 Nov 2008
Reporters Without Borders condemns the obstinacy of the Turkish authorities in continuing to censor the Google-owned video-sharing website YouTube. On 20 November, the Telecommunications Council endorsed the fourth court order blocking access to the site, this one issued on 30 October by a magistrate’s court in Cubuk, in Ankara province.
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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 24 Nov 2008
The Australian Greens won't be supporting plans to introduce compulsory internet filters.
The federal government wants to introduce filters to stop people accessing x-rated material, child pornography and inappropriate material.
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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 24 Nov 2008
I recently finished writing a story on Net censorship in Saudi Arabia, as part of a larger package on Cisco’s ambitions in the world’s emerging markets. Throughout the process, my editor Peter Elstrom and I struggled with how to explain the link, if any, between what Cisco sells and what the Saudi Arabian government does. Cisco has always maintained that it just sells the routers—that what each customer chooses to do with them is their own business.
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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 24 Nov 2008
LET me begin by pointing out the link between male impotence and the ongoing development of internet policy by the Rudd Government.
Right now Labor is committed to examining the introduction of a mandatory filtering system for all internet service providers in Australia to fulfil an election promise. A six-week trial is due to start before the end of the year.
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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 19 Nov 2008
The editor of a Russian Internet news portal accused authorities on Wednesday of censoring bad news about the financial crisis after prosecutors questioned journalists reporting on troubled banks.
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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 19 Nov 2008
In unprecedented speech, Islamic Republic's prosecutor general says regime has censored over five million sites due to 'unethical content'; bloggers concerned over new bill that would allow execution for publishing anti-Islamic material online
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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 19 Nov 2008
The Palestinian Authority (PA) in Ramallah has blocked access to a popular news website because of the site's reporting on widespread corruption among the entourage of PA President Mahmoud Abbas.
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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 19 Nov 2008
European law is introducing a 'three strikes and you're out' law for ISPs to disconnect illegal file sharers "under cover of stealth", according to legal experts. The EU's telecoms reform package could guarantee the legality of such schemes.
