Archive for March, 2009

Aus “banned sites” list leaked?

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

Australian Communications Minister Stephen Conroy says the list isn’t official but bloggers and other ‘observers’ are having a field day with it, just the same.

The list, containing 2395 Web sites supposedly to be to banned under the new Australian national Clean Feed initiative, was apparently leaked earlier this week.

Read the full story at TECHLifePost.com.

EU opens debate on Net Neutrality

Monday, March 9th, 2009

The European Union has started its official process to consider all sides of the Net Neutrality question. As we might expect, myriad lobbyists have descended on European Commission headquarters in Brussels to make their respective points.

Net Neutrality has more to do with network traffic management than content censoring, but the two concepts do overlap.

Read the full story at TECHLifePost.com.