A few years ago, someone asked me to build a website for him. He was selling a new form of skin care product. There was very little information available from the fledgling manufacturer, so I spent dozens of hours drafting content, interviewing people, finding images and so on. My client paid for some of this [...]
Learn more...Will the Internet be censored by thought police? Perhaps not yet, but some recent trends indicate that some regulations may involve “content police,” for lack of a better word.
Censorship of Wikipedia.
The latest uproar involved a page in Wikipedia that was blocked from U.K. Internet users. The blocked page included an image of a 1976 music [...]
U.S. Federal Court Awards Largest CAN-SPAM Act Damages Award in History.
In November this year, the largest damages case for a CAN-SPAM Act violation was awarded by a U.S. federal court to Facebook. The defendant, a Montreal resident named Adam Guerbuez, was charged with $873 million in damages. It is unlikely that Guerbuez has that kind [...]
I have yet to meet anyone who has not complained about his or her taxes. But when it really comes down to it, as a society, I think that on some level we like paying taxes and believe that they are necessary for our collective well being.
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Do you think you’re an adult, and one who is capable of making your own decisions about what you do and do not want to read? Do you think you are capable of clicking a back button? Or shutting off your password-protected computers when the kids will be home alone?
In Australia, the government thinks not.
The [...]
Zogby has been polling Americans on their attitudes about the Internet. The poll has revealed some gems! For instance:
The Internet Could Become a “Significant Other” — Almost a quarter of those polled said that the Internet could become a pretty good surrogate “significant other.”
Regulating the Internet – The older folks thought that the Internet, and [...]
In the very first article on this blog about Internet Responsibility v. Government Regulation, we were exploring the sheer magnitude of trying to regulate the Internet because of the number of web pages and blogs being produced every single day. NetCraft had reported 170 million websites amidst millions of blogs and social networking sites.
Well, [...]
Why is that people seem to think that government holds the answers to everything? Rasmussen Reports recently published a poll that I thought was quite disturbing. A surprising number of Americans think that government should regulate the Internet:
Nearly half of Americans (49%) believe that the federal government should regulate the Internet the same way [...]