EU may begin treating 'Net censorship as a trade barrier
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| The European Parliament recently passed a proposal to treat Internet
| censorship by repressive regimes as a trade barrier. The proposal, submitted
| by Jules Maaten of the rightist Dutch VVD party, passed on a 571-38 vote.
| Maaten describes it as an "unusual, but effective way" to promote freedom of
| expression on the Internet.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080227-eu-may-begin-treating-net-censorship-as-a-trade-barrier.html
Army Squeezes Soldier Blogs, Maybe to Death
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| The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending
| personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior
| officer, Wired News has learned. The directive, issued April 19, is the
| sharpest restriction on troops' online activities since the start of the Iraq
| war. And it could mean the end of military blogs, observers say.
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http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/05/army_bloggers
Recent:
Schneier: Bad news is good news, not so for security
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| While the media bombards consumers with frightening stories, discussions
| about security are thwarted by the failure of language to separate
| the "feeling" and "reality" of security, says security guru Bruce Schneier.
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| Although the media's treatment of events could be held responsible for this
| confusion between perception and reality, there is another element at play --
| language, or rather, its failure to accommodate the difference between
| the "feeling" and "reality" of security.
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| "In effect we have two very different concepts mapped on the same word. And
| this makes a lot of conversations about the feeling and reality of security
| hard to have because our language fails us," he said.
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http://www.builderau.com.au/news/soa/Schneir-Bad-news-is-good-news-not-so-for-security-/0,339028227,339285999,00.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2jztv4
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