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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 19 Nov 2008
A collaboration of Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford and Toronto universities warns that Internet filtering is prone to error, collateral filtering and underblocking, no matter where or how it is implemented
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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 18 Nov 2008
IT DOESN’T NECESSARILY take a lot of government resources to censor the Internet, as Saudi Arabia has discovered using a crowd-sourcing method for depriving people of porn and politics online.
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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 18 Nov 2008
After it had been unavailable in Germany for more than two days, the Wikipedia's German portal is finally back online. The local German version of the Wikipedia had become unavailable after a member of the German parliament, Lutz Heilmann, pressed charges against the German Wikipedia because of defamatory statements in his biography on the site. Heilmann argued that the article was "false and slanderous." A German judge then ordered the closure of the German portal for the Wikipedia, wikipedia.de.
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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 13 Nov 2008
Burma’s military government has turned to a 12-year-old law to justify its latest crackdown on dissidents, about 60 of whom have received lengthy prison sentences so far this week.
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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 13 Nov 2008
Any civilized person will be left aghast by reports to the effect that the Malawi Government will soon be using private investors like Internet Service Providers to control what Malawians and other visiting nationals will be viewing on the internet.
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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 12 Nov 2008
The Government’s mandatory internet filtering scheme poses a clear threat to the gay online community and should be stopped at all costs, warns Antoun Issa.
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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 12 Nov 2008
Internet "black boxes" could be used to record every email and website visit made by computer users in Britain, it has been reported.
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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 12 Nov 2008
As opposition grows against the Government's controversial plan to censor the internet, the head of one of Australia's largest ISPs has labeled the Communications Minister the worst we've had in the past 15 years.
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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 10 Nov 2008
Historians always like to point out that the Internet is derived from a military program called Arpanet – a project designed to ensure that locations could continue to communicate even when the nodes of communication on a direct path between them were destroyed, presumably by a nuclear strike on US soil. The idea that the internet can route round any physical problems is one of its strengths, but in the 21st century, it is the routing around the meta-physical road blocks that could be the internet’s greatest feature.
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By: Jillian C. York
Date: 07 Nov 2008
Education, along with parental vigilance, is of utmost important in making the internet safer.
There has been much backlash against the Government (and Stephen Conroy, the Communications Minister) for their attempt at making the internet safer for Australians. There has been much necessary talk of technological difficulties and also a large amount of discussion regarding censorship.
