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Google and Yahoo! join Oz protests
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| Google and Yahoo! have joined a pressure
| group which seeks to stop Communications
| Minister Stephen Conroy's doomed attempt to
| filter Aussie web traffic.
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| [...]
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| It is also concerned that Conroy's
| mandatory filer will include content that
| is educational or social. Trials last year
| did wrongly blacklist websites promoting a
| Queensland dentist, a photographer and a
| travel agent.
|
| Finally, the group warned that sites like
| YouTube, which is bound to have some pages
| on the filter blacklist, would effectively
| overload the filter and create bottlenecks.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/16/google_yahoo_australia_firewall/
Google and Yahoo raise doubts over planned net filters
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8517829.stm
Facebook hit with class action over privacy changes
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| A class action lawsuit has been filed
| against Facebook over changes that the
| social networking site made to its privacy
| settings last November and December.
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http://www.techworld.com.au/article/336528/facebook_hit_class_action_over_privacy_changes?fp=2&fpid=1&rid=1
Any use of this article without the NFL's express written consent is prohibited
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| With the Super Bowl just concluded and
| baseball's spring training only weeks away,
| a question occurred to us: whatever
| happened to the push for copyright holders
| to tone down their copyright notices?
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/02/challenging-copyright-at-the-nfl.ars
Recent:
Yahoo,Microsoft and Flickr to restrict porn in India
http://www.thefirstreporter.com/technology/yahoomicrosoft-flickr-restrict-porn-india/
Microsoft, Yahoo help keep India away from porn?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10422619-93.html
Yahoo,Microsoft and Flickr to restrict porn in India
http://www.thefirstreporter.com/technology/yahoomicrosoft-flickr-restrict-porn-india/
Yahoo and Microsoft steer Indian searches away from adult content
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| An investigation by Britain's Guardian
| newspaper has found that Yahoo and
| Microsoft's search engines have complied
| with an Indian law that requires the use of
| safe search settings, altering the search
| engine optimization (SEO) landscape for
| internet users in that country.
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http://www.brafton.com/industry-news/yahoo-and-microsoft-steer-indian-searches-away-from-adult-content-$1350357.htm
Dalai Lama quotes? Thereâs an app for that â except in China
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| I suppose we should be used to it by now,
| but itâs still disheartening to see U.S.
| tech companies whose success has been tied
| to the free flow of information so readily
| accommodate government censorship elsewhere.
| The latest examples: Apple, Yahoo and
| Microsoft.
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http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2009/12/dalai-lama-quotes-theres-an-app-for-that-except-in-china.html
Microsoft Claims It Fixed Bing's Chinese Search 'Bug'
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| Microsoft claims it fixed a controversial
| "bug" that made Bing Image Search deliver
| uniformly pro-Chinese-government results
| to politically sensitive queries inputted
| in Simplified Chinese.
|
| Bing came under fire on Nov. 20 from New
| York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, who
| accused Microsoft of "craven kowtowing" to
| the Chinese government by offering
| "sanitized pro-Communist results" in
| response to Bing searches in Simplified
| Chinese for terms such as "Tiananmen" and
| "Dalai Lama."
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Microsoft-Claims-It-Fixed-Bings-Chinese-Search-Bug-350985/
Boycott Microsoft Bing
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| If you search a term on Bing that is
| politically sensitive in China, in English
| the results are legitimate. Search
| âTiananmenâ and youâll find out about the
| army firing on pro-democracy protesters in
| 1989. Search Dalai Lama, Falun Gong and you
| also get credible results. Conduct the
| search in complex Chinese characters (the
| kind used in Taiwan and Hong Kong) and on
| the whole you still get authentic results.
|
| But conduct the search with the simplified
| characters used in mainland China, then you
| get sanitized pro-Communist results. This is
| especially true of image searches. Magic! No
| Tiananmen Square massacre. The Dalai Lama
| becomes an oppressor. Falun Gong believers
| are villains, not victims.
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http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/boycott-microsoft-bing/
NYT's Kristof: Boycott Bing
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| Kristof's objection, outlined in a blog post
| this afternoon, centers around his
| observation that searches conducted using
| simplified Chinese characters in Bing return
| "sanitized pro-Communist results" not just
| in China but around the world. He questions
| Microsoft's claim that the results are
| determined by search algorithms, not its
| corporate policy. Here's an excerpt from his
| post.
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http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2009/11/nyts_kristof_calls_for_bing_boycott.html
Bing Censoring All Simplified Chinese Language Queries
http://search.slashdot.org/story/09/11/21/0158213/Bing-Censoring-All-Simplified-Chinese-Language-Queries
Bing Search Tainted by Pro-Microsoft Results
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| The first of the search results about the Microsoft Word question linked to a
| page about how expensive Manhattan is (Is Microsoft competing with Manhattan
| now?). The top responses to the "Is Microsoft Evil?" question were, get this,
| a link to a New York Times story about whether or not Google is considered
| evil, a link about proxy servers, and a link to a story about Microsoft being
| charitable. Wow.
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http://advice.cio.com/shane_oneill/bing_search_tainted_by_pro_microsoft_results
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