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Is Internet access a 'fundamental right'?
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| Or how about a right to get The Wall Street Journal? It provides useful
| commentary on my government's actions and how they affect my wallet. But
| then, I'd also need The New York Times so that I could develop a balanced
| view on important political matters.
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| None of which will matter if the government doesn't force upon me the right
| to education! And not just any education, but an education that makes me
| fully capable of making intelligent voting decisions and filling out endless
| forms.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10234555-16.html
Web designer opposes France's "3 strikes" law, loses job
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| An employee of French broadcaster TF1 was fired after privately expressing
| opposition to the new "graduated response" bill moving through the National
| Assembly. He e-mailed his MP, who forwarded the message to the Ministry of
| Culture, which passed it to TF1.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/web-designer-opposes-frances-3-strikes-law-loses-job.ars
European Parliament rejects Telecoms Package
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| Telecoms Package surprise result as European Parliament makes a vote for
| democracy and civil liberties on the Internet. But it is not clear how much
| of a win it is.
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http://www.iptegrity.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=338&Itemid=9
Malcolm Harbour Doesn't Get Net Neutrality
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| The questioner is wrong to frame this in terms of blocking *sites*: it's
| about blocking *services*, particularly ones based on new protocols
| piggy-backing on TCP/IP. The Telecoms Package gives telecoms companies the
| possibility of blocking anything it doesn't like at this level - killing net
| neutrality - provided they tell people what they are doing.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/05/malcolm-harbour-doesnt-get-net.html
Aussie censors implement six degrees of separation policy
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| The Australian Government yesterday broke new records for web censorship by
| requiring the takedown not just of a page containing harmful content, nor
| even a page linking to harmful content, but a page linking to a link to
| allegedly harmful content.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/07/oz_link_ban/
Recent:
Radiohead's Manager: File Sharing Should Be Legal; It's Great For Music
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| This probably isn't much of a surprise given Radiohead's well-publicized
| experiment with letting fans "pay what you want" for its last album, but the
| band's manager has now said that he thinks file sharing should be legal (sent
| in by Ruby), noting:
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| "We believe file-sharing by peer-to-peer should be legalised. The sharing
| of music where it is not for profit is a great thing for culture and
| music."
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090506/0229264765.shtml
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