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The Importance of an Open Internet
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| How important is the net neutrality issue? Put
| yourself in a world where you were charged
| more for the amount of data that comes in and
| out of your system. Now imagine how free and
| open Linux development would occur in such a
| world.
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http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/168-brian-proffitt/185600-the-importance-of-an-open-internet
Congress may require ISPs to block fraud sites
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| For the last decade or so, Internet service
| providers have been dealing with requests to
| block access to pornographic or copyright-
| infringing Web sites, or in China, ones that
| dare to criticize the government.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10390779-38.html
Tim Wu on Deep Packet Inspection
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKwgc_HQhMs
Recent:
Anti-war activist's works banned at prison camps
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| Prison camp officials would not say
| specifically why the book was rejected but
| Navy Lt. Cmdr. Brook DeWalt, a GuantÃnamo
| spokesman, said staff reviews "every
| proposed or recommended library item to
| assess force protection issues associated
| with camp dynamics -- such as impact on
| good order and discipline.''
|
| The banned book showed the bespectacled
| professor-emeritus at the Massachusetts
| Institute of Technology in button-down
| shirt and sweater staring out of a black
| cover of a 2007 edition printed by a Beirut
| publishing house.
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http://chomsky.info/onchomsky/20091011.htm
Minton report: Trafigura toxic dumping along the Ivory Coast broke EU regulations, 14 Sep 2006
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| (update Oct 12, GMT) Following press
| reportage about dumping off the coast of
| Africa, Waterson & Hicks, a UK law firm
| acting for Trafigura, a large London based
| oil and commodity trader, ordered and
| received this confidential report (the so-
| called "Minton report") into toxic dumping
| practices by its client along and on the
| Ivory Coast. The report reveals a number
| of toxic dumping incidents and appears to
| be the report behind the extraordinary
| secret October 11, 2009 gagging of the
| Guardian newspaper.
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http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Minton_report:_Trafigura_Toxic_dumping_along_the_Ivory_Coast_broke_EU_regulations%2C_14_Sep_2006
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