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Expressions of interest close today for vendors hoping to secure a contract with the Federal government and ACMA to provide an ISP-level filtering program, as part of a government effort to limit access to restricted and illegal online content.
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Harvard Law's Jonathan Zittrain writes that the filtering of Internet content is on the upswing, a trend that--left unchecked--threatens to undo a basic underpinning of the global cybernetwork.
E-mail has taken a battering over the last year or so with mountains of spam and viruses delivered to our mailboxes daily. Can the problem be fixed, and can e-mail still be free?
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Lee Siegel is a cultural critic who has written for The New York Times, Slate and The Nation. However, he is perhaps best known for what happened in 2006 when writing for The New Republic.
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