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Death of the internet in the UK
• PrisonPlanetA draconian Internet censorship bill finally passed the house of commons in the UK yesterday, legislating for government powers to restrict and filter any website that is deemed to be undesirable for public consumption.
Information Segregation: U.K. Approves Crackdown on Internet Copyright
• Nytimes.com/The British Parliament on Thursday approved plans to crack down on digital media piracy by authorizing the suspension of repeat offenders’ Internet connections.
F.C.C. to Press Ahead with Net Neutrality
• The Washington PostDespite a major setback by a U.S. Appellate Court invalidating the ability of the F.C.C. to regulate internet access, the agency announced it will move ahead with plans to do so.
Draconian Internet Licensing: Coming soon to your computer screen
• Infowars.com/Microsoft executive Craig Mundie calls for Internet licensing, as authorities push for a system even more stifling than in Communist China, where only people with government permission would be allowed to express free speech.
Net Neutrality Bill Calls on FCC to Babysit ISPs
• PC MagazineNet neutrality took center
stage again when several House members introduced a bill
intended to preserve the open nature of the Web by asking the Federal
Communications Commission to keep a watchful eye on Internet service
providers.
Did Twitter Cost Brüno Millions?
• www.webpronews.comEarly Friday morning it looked like Sacha Baron Cohen had done it again
with his new film Brüno. With post-midnight ticket sales in the neighborhood of $1.6 million some Hollywood insiders were predicting around $50 million for the opening weekend
Well, $50 million didn't happen. Brüno finished the weekend with a
respectable $30.4 million. But, $20 million is a pretty big gap... what
caused such an erroneous projection? Well, TIME thinks Twitter is to blame.
Did Twitter cost Brüno millions? Tell us what you think.
"Brüno's box-office decline from Friday to Saturday indicates that
the film's brand of outrage was not the sort to please most moviegoers
— and that their tut-tutting got around fast. Brüno could be the first movie defeated by the Twitter effect."
With techsavvy moviegoers tweeting their opinions to literally millions of followers, the micro-blogging site can make or break a film in one day.
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Companies mine Web clues for signs of pandemics
• APWeeks before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization alerted the public to a growing number of swine flu cases, a startup based in Seattle's suburbs already had a hunch something was up.
The Wayback Machine: lets you check out what was on a website at any point in the past
• http://www.archive.org/web/web.phpBrowse through 85 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago. To start surfing the Wayback, type in the web address of a site or page where you would like to start, and press enter. Then select from the archived dates available. The res
U.S. Plans Attack and Defense in Cyberspace Warfare
• NY TimesWhen American forces in Iraq wanted to lure members of Al Qaeda into a trap, they hacked into one of the group’s computers and altered information that drove them into American gun sights. President Bush ordered new ways to slow Iran’s progress towar
Rockefeller: Internet is “Number One National Hazard”
• By Kurt Nimmo, Infowars.comAccording to the great-grandson John D. Rockefeller, nephew of banker David Rockefeller, and former Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller the internet represents a serious threat to national security. Rockefeller is not alone in this
"Unafraid" of Internet, China appears to block YouTube
• ReutersYouTube has unavailable for users in China, which filters the Internet for content critical of Communist Party rule, since late on Monday. (and the USA is how far behind?)
''FEMA for the Internet' ???
• Business WeekFor all the fears of sophisticated digital intrusions preoccupying many computer security professionals, President Obama’s leading candidates for “cyber czar” also are focusing on taking control of the internet.
Do We Need a New Internet?
• New York TimesTwo decades ago a 23-year-old Cornell University graduate student brought the Internet to its knees with a simple software program that skipped from computer to computer at blinding speed, thoroughly clogging the then-tiny network in the space of a f
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