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Do Smart Phones Thwart Public Records Laws?
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| State leaders in Florida are in a battle
| with technology: new forms of
| communications that make it difficult for
| public officials to follow the law.
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| The state has one of the best government
| public record laws in the country.
| Virtually every public document is
| accessible to the public. And though the
| state is embracing the perks of advanced
| technology â the Legislature just started
| piloting the use of electronic meeting
| packets, instead of printing them on paper
| â the use of cell phones and BlackBerrys is
| causing concern. It's simply too difficult
| to archive all communications.
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123573568
Tyranny of the Olympics
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| In the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics,
| the International Olympic Committee (IOC)
| defended its choice of China by arguing
| that the Games could contribute to the
| democratisation of an authoritarian regime,
| making a closed society more open and
| bringing the force of international law to
| bear on the hosts. As we now know, the
| record proved less impressive than the
| claims. In fact, there is a stronger case
| to be made for the obverseâthat the
| Olympics can contribute to the coarsening
| of democracy. The 2010 Winter Olympic
| Games, which start on 12th February in
| Vancouver, is a case in point.
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http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2010/02/sporting-life-4/
WikiLeaks editor: why I'm excited about Iceland's plans for journalism
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| In my role as WikiLeaks editor, I've been
| involved in fighting off more than 100
| legal attacks over the past three years. To
| do that, and keep our sources safe, we have
| had to spread assets, encrypt everything,
| and move telecommunications and people
| around the world to activate protective
| laws in different national jurisdictions.
|
| We've become good at it, and never lost a
| case, or a source, but we can't expect
| everyone to make such extraordinary
| efforts. Large newspapers, including the
| Guardian, are forced to remove or water
| down investigative stories rather than risk
| legal costs. Even internet-only publishers
| writing about corruption find themselves
| disconnected by their ISPs after legal
| threats. Should these publications not
| relent, they are hounded, like the Turks &
| Caicos Islands Journal, from one
| jurisdiction to other. There's a new type
| of refugee â "publishers" â and a new type
| of internet business developing, "refugee
| hosting". Malaysia Today is no longer
| published in Malaysia. Even the American
| Homeowners Association has moved its
| servers to Stockholm after relentless legal
| attacks in the United States.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/2010/feb/15/wikileaks-editor-excited-iceland-journalism
ALIA join forces with Inspire Foundation, Google and Yahoo to battle Senator Conroy's internet filter
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| Senator Conroy's internet filter has been
| the cause of much news and action from
| local residents and the world at large,
| most recently sparking attacks on
| government websites.
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http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/News/167294,alia-join-forces-with-inspire-foundation-google-and-yahoo-to-battle-senator-conroys-internet-filter.aspx
Recent:
Racist content on US server 'within UK jurisdiction'
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| The Court of Appeal rejected that claim,
| saying that according to a precedent set in
| a previous case domestic law will apply so
| long as much of the activity in question
| took place in the UK.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/12/racist_content/
Aussie net censorship turning Chinese
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| Recent DDoS chaos on the Australian internet
| may have been great fun for all involved â
| but behind the good-humoured anarchy lies a
| growing concern that the government really
| does have a dark and Big Brotherly vision
| for the future of politics in the country.
|
| As reported in The Register this week,
| groups exasperated by government plans for a
| mandatory firewall that will censor far more
| than the child porn material claimed,
| finally resorted to long-promised direct
| action, with a short and successful DDoS
| attack on government sites and offices.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/14/aussie_firewall_latest/
Google baulks at Conroy's call to censor YouTube
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| Google says it will not "voluntarily" comply
| with the government's request that it censor
| YouTube videos in accordance with broad
| "refused classification" (RC) content rules.
|
| Communications Minister Stephen Conroy
| referred to Google's censorship on behalf of
| the Chinese and Thai governments in making
| his case for the company to impose
| censorship locally.
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http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/google-baulks-at-conroys-call-to-censor-youtube-20100211-ntm0.html
Conroy calls for piracy code of conduct
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| In the wake of iiNet's recent court win,
| Minister for Broadband, Communications and
| the Digital Economy Stephen Conroy has said
| that he wants the film and internet
| industries to sit down and try and work out
| a code of conduct to prevent pirating of
| copyrighted works rather than working
| towards legislation changes.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/Conroy-calls-for-piracy-code-of-conduct/0,130061791,339300874,00.htm
Google Says No To Australia's Request To Censor YouTube Videos
http://techdirt.com/articles/20100212/1147118148.shtml
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