Have you ever been curious about how much filtering goes on the Internet? I have personally been concerned about this, particularly when so much of it is hidden and we don’t really know who is doing the filtering and what the criteria may be to filter content.
Internet censorship and surveillance are growing global phenomena, [...]
Yesterday, we took a look at the dismissal of the federal lawsuit against Lori Drew, who had set up a false profile on MySpace and harassed a teenager who eventually committed suicide. The following story looks at another teenager who had a MySpace account and was harassed by a 40-year-old man.
While this type of [...]
I’ve been following the Drew case in terms of Internet regulation and its implications on online social networking.
Last week, a federal judge dismissed a case accusing Lori Drew, the 50-year-old Missouri woman convicted of federal computer fraud charges related to an Internet hoax that allegedly prompted suicide of teenage girl. Lori Drew’s lawyer was [...]
Huffington Post reports that The Las Vegas Review Journal “says it has been served a federal grand jury subpoena seeking information about readers who posted comments on the paper’s web site.”
Some of the comments allegedly indicated violence and prosecutors wanted the names and email identities of comment posters so that it could protect jury members [...]
A working draft of the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 is available in PDF format. I have not read through the entire thing yet, but what I have read so far is raising some red flags about Internet regulation.
For instance, there is some discussion toward the end of the document about private-public data sharing. The act, [...]
Many of us take the Internet for granted nowadays. When I was cleaning out my storage shed, I found some old pieces of software, like DOS 6.0 which was way cool then. When I tossed that old gem out, it reminded me of just how far we’ve come.
Here’s a video from the [...]
H.R. 1966, the “Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act“, was introduced in early April to add “cyberbullying” to the U.S. Criminal Code.
There have been some reports by other bloggers that the Act will criminalize blog articles, comments or Web 2.0 activities that offend someone. I don’t believe that this is true.
It has to do with intent.
Megan [...]
The “Internet Fairness Doctrine” is one of the most outrageous things I’ve ever heard of, but given the source, perhaps it is not correct.
World Net Daily ran a news story yesterday suggesting that the nominee to head the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs wants to impose mandatory “electronic sidewalks” for the [...]
Earlier this month, the Obama administration created a stir amongst the IT community with its announcement that it would be following the same draconian policies of the Bush administration with respect to a secretive anti-counterfeiting trade agreement known as ACTA.
PC World reported that The Office of U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), part of President Barack Obama’s [...]
Those of us who are Commission Junction affiliates recently received an email alerting us to California’s proposed Internet sales tax law which would be similar to the one that the State of New York passed and that its Supreme Court upheld.
According to Assemblymember Nancy Skinner’s press release, AB 178, the proposed use tax, would raise [...]