A French judge launched hearings Tuesday into whether Internet service providers should censor portals accessible on their networks to keep French citizens from viewing links to neo-Nazi Web sites.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) will be introducing changes to the regulation of restricted content available online and via mobile premium services next week, even after an overwhelming negative response from the media and industry.
Israel's top government censor has warned Web sites in her country not to publish sensitive information about the war with Iraq.
An Australian government Web site was back online for China's 22 million Internet users for the first time in 18 months after complaints to Chinese officials over censorship.
Google's new China search engine not only censors many Web sites that question the Chinese government, but it goes further than similar services from Microsoft and Yahoo by targeting teen pregnancy, homosexuality, dating, beer and jokes.
The weekend's Big Brother "sex scandal", during which the official site's live feed and forums were taken offline, highlights an issue that is provoking debate across the globe: to what extent are Web site administrators responsible for the conduct of their users?
A friend of mine who works in IT passed on some surprising news the other day.
Escalating bandwidth costs and falling network performance are two major problems that often have a common cause: staff using the Internet for non-work purposes.
US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.
Will the Australian government make the same mistakes with biotechnology that it has with information technology? All too likely, says a leading industry commentator.
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