TECHLife Post (TLP) (techlifepost.com), the Webzine dedicated to helping you live with technology, today officially launched the Hands off MY Net! campaign against Internet censorship with the proclamation of the campaign’s manifesto and the official opening of its Web site (handsoffmynet.org).
What would you think if you searched the Internet after the Canadian federal budget is presented tomorrow and every article you could find about it was positive? How would you feel if you attempted to visit the blog of an outspoken critic and the site was suddenly gone?
More than 2000 years ago the ancient Chinese strategist Sun Tzu wrote about controlling and manipulating information. Politicians, military leaders and advertising agencies (to name just a few) have spent much of the time since refining their techniques.
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Amid the pomp, circumstance and general hubbub surrounding the inauguration of U.S. President Barach Obama last week, the U.S. Supreme Court quietly administered a coup de grace to the controversial Child Online Protection Act (COPA). The court, which ruled COPA unconstitutional in 2004, refused a U.S. Justice Department request to hear further arguments in the case. Legal experts say that’s the end, finally, of the government’s decade-long effort to have COPA enforced.
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From: The Sydney Morning Herald
Opposition among journalists and free speech advocates in Australia is mounting against the government’s Clean Feed initiative, which will put decisions about the Internet content that Aus users can access under government control.
Broadcaster and journalist Helen Razer takes a tough stand against the government’s filtering plan and, specifically, the policies and philosophies of Aus Communications Minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, who is the political mastermind behind the Clean Feed…
Reuters news agency reports that the Chinese government’s recent Web crackdown on ‘pornography and vulgarity’, which resulted in the closing of 19 major Web sites and more than 1,200 smaller ones, is being expanded to the country’s cell phone system.
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The parliament of the Chinese province of Jiangsu has approved a law making it illegal for people in the city of Xuzhou to publish ‘private information’ on the Internet, the China Daily newspaper reports.
Observers say it’s no coincidence that, just last month, bloggers in Xuzhou reportedly posted photos of a public housing official wearing an expensive wristwatch and smoking exotic cigarettes — luxuries deemed beyond the means of a low-level civil servant’s salary. The official was subsequently dismissed.
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A high-level task force on how to keep children safe on the Internet has concluded, among other things, that online sexual predation by adults on minors needs significant further study.
The Internet Safety Technical Task Force also confirmed other popular perceptions, not the least of which that it will take more than just improved filtering and parental control technology to do the whole job of keeping kids safe.
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The Chinese government has launched a New Year’s crackdown against Web sites it says threaten morals by spreading pornography and vulgarity. Prominent among the primary offenders were global Internet giant Google and Chinese Web search leader Baidu.
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