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FCC Again Wants Details From Comcast On Its Traffic-Shaping Efforts
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| Comcast has already been slapped down -- well, slapped on the wrist,
| anyway -- by the FCC for violating Commission rules with its traffic-shaping
| efforts, and it could be on its way for a second rebuke. The FCC has asked
| Comcast for some more details on its newest "congestion management" system,
| which throttles heavy users' speeds for periods of time.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090120/0722353459.shtml
All Major Canadian ISPs Slow Down P2P Traffic
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| Net neutrality really is the hot topic at the moment. After the FCC slapped
| Comcast for slowing down BitTorrent users, Canada is now looking into the
| network management practices of its ISPs. And rightly so, as a CRTC
| investigation reveals that most of the ISPs in Canada actively slow down
| customers using P2P applications.
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http://torrentfreak.com/all-major-canadian-isps-slow-down-p2p-traffic-090120/
Danish ISP Blocks The Pirate Bay; But Is It For Legal Reasons... Or
Competitive?
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| A year ago, recording industry lobbying group IFPI successfully convinced a
| Danish court to force ISP Tele2 to block The Pirate Bay. This came after a
| similar ruling that forced Tele2 to block access to AllofMp3 (which, you'll
| recall was the big "threat" prior to The Pirate Bay). Of course, these blocks
| don't work particularly well, and seem incredibly annoying for those content
| creators who actually want their content distributed through systems like The
| Pirate Bay.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090120/1919463467.shtml
Ding Dong, COPA Is Dead
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| The federal government has been trying to pass a law to "protect the
| children" online for ages. First there was the CDA, the Communications
| Decency Act, which was struck down as unconstitutional. Then, there was
| COPA -- the Child Online Protection Act. It tried to be more narrow... but
| was still a very questionable law, with rather vague wording. It bounced
| around the courts for years, including hitting the Supreme Court twice --
| which sent it back to lower courts both times. Last summer, the appeals court
| knocked it down again, and today the Supreme Court refused to hear the
| appeal... meaning that COPA is about as dead as can be. This is definitely a
| big win for free speech online.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090121/1357433480.shtml
The Internet is under attack from the MAFIAA.
Recent:
No opt-out of filtered Internet
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| Australians will be unable to opt-out of the government's pending Internet
| content filtering scheme, and will instead be placed on a watered-down
| blacklist, experts say.
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http://www.infoworld.com/news/feeds/08/10/13/No-opt-out-of-filtered-Internet.html?source=gs
Conroy announces mandatory internet filters to protect children
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| "Labor makes no apologies to those that argue that any regulation of the
| internet is like going down the Chinese road," he said.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/31/2129471.htm
Related:
Australia to get net censorship
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| The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) will be able to
| force content providers to take down offensive material and issue notices for
| live content to be stopped and links to the content deleted.
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http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22959799-5005961,00.html
Major Aussie ISP Telstra BigPond shafts open source OpenOffice
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| Australia’s largest Internet service provider Telstra BigPond has removed the
| free open source office suite OpenOffice from its unmetered file download
| area following the launch of its own, free, hosted, office application,
| BigPond Office.
|
| [...]
|
| Our reader was outraged by Telstra’s move, which he sees as an attack on the
| open source software movement.
|
| “The principle of the matter upsets me,” he said. “The fact that BigPond has
| removed previously allowed open source software is un-ethical. They are
| discriminating against me, even though I pay the same as other customers.
| They are attacking the Free Software movement.”
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http://tech.blorge.com/Structure
%20/2007/12/18/major-aussie-isp-telstra-bigpond-shafts-open-source-openoffice/
Australia to extend web censorship
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| Privacy advocates take a dim view of this proposal, naturally. Roger Clarke,
| chair of the Australian Privacy Foundation, said "This government's extremism
| has reached new heights today." He asked "How can a politician claim the
| right to hold office if they set out to undermine the critical democratic
| right of freedom of speech, and blatantly decline to evaluate the impact of
| measures put before the Parliament?"
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/09/26/australia-extend-web-censorship
Suit against blogger weaves legal web in Paris, Texas
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| But there is little case law in Texas or nationally to give judges a standard
| for when to expose anonymous postings on the Internet.
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http://chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5149745.html
Web 'censorship' bill brings police state one stop closer
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| Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) has slammed moves to give the Federal
| Police powers to ban access to certain Internet content as "another step in
| Australia's descent into a police state".
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14570/1055/
Howard row over Wikipedia edits
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| Staff in the Australian prime minister's department have been accused of
| editing potentially damaging entries in online encyclopaedia Wikipedia.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6961575.stm
AT&T admits it censored other bands
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| It looks like Pearl Jam isn't the only band that has had its politically
| charged comments bleeped from concerts streamed from AT&T's Blue Room Web
| site.
|
| [...]
|
| AT&T quickly apologized for the incident and blamed the company that handles
| the Webcasting for performances on Blue Room.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9759184-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
AT&T slams Google over open-access wireless proposal
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| AT&T has asked Capitol Hill not to enable an open nationwide wireless
| spectrum, claiming that Google's lobbying of such a network is a bid by the
| search giant to obtain broadband airwaves at bargain-basement prices.
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http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=B592E3C6-E5F3-4ECA-93C1-3A5A3392024A
Microsoft and MySpace join Govt's fight against online predators
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| Microsoft has joined the likes of MySpace and the child protection advocacy
| group Bravehearts to help launch an extension of the Federal Government’s
| NetAlert initiative, the Consultative Working Group.
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http://www.securecomputing.net.au/news/61208,microsoft-and-myspace-join-govts-fight-against-online-predators.aspx
Australia's porn-blocking plan unveiled
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| While individual filters will be available beginning later this month,
| ISP-level blocking may take some time to implement. The Australian
| Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is currently planning a trial of
| ISP-level filtering in Tasmania that will inform the government's decision on
| a national launch.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6202226.html
Yahoo!, Microsoft ink web pact with Chinese government
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| Microsoft and Yahoo! have signed a pact with the Chinese government
| that "encourages" the big name web players to record the identities of
| bloggers and censor content. So says Reporters Without Borders, an
| organization that fights for journalistic rights across the globe.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/24/yahoo_and_microsoft_ink_chinese_blogging_pact/
Chinese Internet dissident committed to mental hospital
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| "It is not acceptable that Chinese authorities use such methods to silence
| citizens who have merely peacefully voiced their opinions", expressed the
| organisation in an announcement. Apparently authorities have not abandoned
| the practice of punishing those who have exposed the abuse of power and
| defied censorship by compulsorily committing them to mental institutions.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/94864/from/rss09
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