A divided U.S. Supreme Court earlier this week suggested that a federal law designed to restrict Internet pornography violated Americans' rights to freedom of speech, but the court stopped short of a definitive ruling striking down the law as unconstitutional.
An Australian court's decision to approve a libel lawsuit against a US Web site could spur countries to claim crossborder jurisdiction--and put the Net's freedom to publish at risk.
If the US Federal attorney general gets his way big brother will have still more power to snoop on the Net, listen in on private conversations and install secret gear.
Small online music ventures go off the air as media giants AOL, Yahoo and MSN pump up the volume.
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.
Pretty soon, the government will be screening and filtering our email as well as making blogs like this one disappear.
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The government dumped its well-intentioned bidders and spent the day awash in adulation from an industry that suddenly felt all its Christmases had come at once. But isn't this the same government that, two weeks ago, was warning it had to ditch key election promises for lack of funding?
Microsoft intends to lay out a plan to make its .Net Passport authentication service more Web services-friendly.
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.
The Bush administration plans to ask the Federal Communications Commission to order Net telephony providers to comply with a law that would permit police to wiretap conversations carried over the Internet.
Microsoft this summer will lay out a plan to make its .Net Passport authentication service more Web services-friendly.
A Sydney Web-based business has been stripped of its registered domain name with only 24 hours notice by an administrative body, after it was found to have "wrongly lapsed" from its original owner early last year.
The software giant is phasing out standalone versions of its Internet Explorer Web browser, according to statements attributed to IE's program manager on its Web site.
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