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Google reveals its 300-year plan
News Google and Yahoo have received for cooperating with Chinese government censorship efforts. Saturday at the Association of National Advertisers annual conference in Phoenix. We did a math exercise and the answer was 300 years," Schmidt said in...
[October 10, 2005, 9:15]
Home Office Web site adopts adult rating
News For the government, a self-regulating mechanism for rating Internet content is more desirable than passing costly legislation that is likely to provoke privacy and censorship concerns. The Home Office has caused a stir among the Internet industry...
[May 4, 2001, 10:06]
Civil rights group slams Cyber Patrol tactics
News The first thing is that this has nothing to do with government censorship. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) criticised Internet filtering software maker Microsystems Software and its parent company Mattel on Friday, accusing them of...
[March 27, 2000, 9:41]
COPA backers slam ruling, urge appeal
News But the ACLU and other COPA opponents called Reed's ruling "a significant victory in 'Round 2' of the fight against federal online censorship. The anti-pornography group Enough is Enough blamed COPA's latest legal defeat on the lead plaintiff in...
[February 3, 1999, 9:26]
US Report: Clinton's Web plans hang in balance after summits
News When the 'Steal this Book' campaign was raging in the '60s, people didn't say the bookstores should be shut down," Irving said, noting that the Kinkel incident has prompted calls for censorship of bomb sites.
[June 12, 1998, 9:50]
A challenge to all Linux Users in the World
Blog Comment That's restraint of trade and censorship. fpirrone : Actually I do not disagree with your commentary. Even if I manage to make it all work even with Ubuntu 7,04 Server Edition (which I downloaded and burned to CD today) there are still user...
[May 30, 2007, 5:33]
Hackers flexing political muscles
News Meanwhile, cDc member "Oxblood Ruffin" announced that he, in conjunction with an international group of hackers and as yet unnamed social justice groups, was developing a Web application that should enable users to get around censorship and...
[July 17, 2000, 9:02]
Microsoft in the hot seat in new Net flap
News Robin Miller, editor in chief of Andover.Net, responded to the note, claiming Microsoft was doing little more than demanding censorship. Microsoft again finds itself at odds with the open-source community in a dispute over contending claims...
[May 12, 2000, 9:02]
News Roundup: Are your kids safe online?
News Guy Kewney asks -- Could a censorship move by Yahoo! for the way in which it runs its instant messaging service and chatrooms. Is it safe to have your children using chatrooms or instant messaging, and are the big companies doing enough?
[November 13, 2000, 14:01]
Experts: Copyright law hurts technology
News Moreover, the researcher has to inform the copyright holder of the research and requires predisclosure of results, which could lead to censorship. Attempts to protect copyrighted material have strayed from their original purpose, say lawyers...
[March 3, 2003, 8:20]
Enemies of the internet named
News The CD will also contain 3,000 text messages about censorship. Civil liberties group Reporters Without Borders has released its annual list of "Enemies of the Internet" — regimes the group claims restrict freedom of expression online.
[November 8, 2006, 13:09]
UN proposes net governance changes
News She urged the attendees to preserve the internet as an "open and censorship-free zone". A top United Nations official on Monday called for changes in the way the internet is operated, taking aim at "self-serving justifications" for permitting the...
[October 31, 2006, 11:12]
Exclusive: Yahoo! will act against paedophiles
News Closing chatrooms would enrage civil liberties advocates who have long argued that censorship is not the way to deal with online predators. confirmed that the organisation is about to employ a Yahoo! inspector" charged with the responsibility of...
[November 21, 2000, 15:46]
Will Gnutella ignite porn and piracy?
News There's no censorship at all. It could undermine the influence of every search engine and every Web portal. ItÂ’s the biggest thorn yet in the side of record companies worried about the spread of pirated music on the Net.
[April 13, 2000, 13:38]
A Year Ago: Will Gnutella ignite porn and piracy?
News There's no censorship at all. The program's near-perfect anonymity strikes at the very heart of the Internet's most troubling issues: child porn and pirated music It could undermine the influence of every search engine and every Web portal.
[April 13, 2001, 6:04]
Oiling the wheels of education
News For more, click here.sheik's approval, al-Jazeera became the first media company in the region not subject to censorship. Even by oil-cartel standards, Qatar's wealth is extraordinary. Qatar sits on 14 percent of the world's proven reserves of...
[January 23, 2006, 12:20]
Australian Army slams soldiers' site
News It's censorship of the worst kind," said Billings. The Australian Army is cracking down on a Web site believed to be run by a group of serving Australian soldiers that reviews military equipment and hosts an online forum.
[February 26, 2004, 8:20]
Judge upholds COPA injunction
News The ruling grants a bid by plaintiffs -- including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Electronic Privacy Information Centre, ZDNet and a host of online publishers -- to extend a three-month-old temporary...
[February 2, 1999, 9:10]
Google admits omitting Chinese news links
News Internet search engine Google has been accused of censoring the Chinese news service that it launched two weeks ago. Web hosting company Dynamic Internet Technology (DIT) reported that Google's Chinese news returned different results depending on...
[September 27, 2004, 11:45]
Q&A: Australia's 'Luddite' IT minister
News In this exclusive interview, ZDNet Australia spoke with Australia's controversial minister for IT and telecommunications, Richard Alston, who has been criticised in the high-tech industry for his policies on Internet regulation, junk email and...
[November 29, 2002, 10:19]
