Australian AG Michael Atkinson Resigns
Attorney General of the state of South Australia Michael Atkinson, shown here being metaphorically attacked by the animated alter-ego of a prominent Australian gamer, has resigned his post as AG as of...
View ArticleGoogle Ends China Censorship: Google.cn Now Redirects to Google.com.hk
Google gave everyone fair warning, and earlier today the search giant did it. Google.cn, the Chinese portal of Google.com, now redirects to the entirely uncensored search engine Google.com.hk, the...
View ArticlePirate Party Helps Seniors Get Assisted Suicide Information Past Australia’s...
In anticipation of Australia’s internet filter, the voluntary euthanasia organization Exit International has begun to take action. After realizing that they were on a leaked list of sites that would...
View ArticleSenator Ron Wyden Has Hopefully Killed the Internet Censorship Bill
The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act passed unanimously through the Senate Judiciary Committee this Thursday, but fortunately didn’t get much further. Oregonian Senator Ron Wyden...
View ArticleRepublic of Belarus Outlaws Viewing Foreign Websites, Attempts to Censor More...
Updated content follows below. There’s a lot of talk that SOPA will essentially destroy U.S. Internet and cause digital plague that will creep out to the web at large. If you needed a case study, keep...
View Article22 Countries in the EU Signed ACTA and Why That’s Bad
Remember how the Internet finally “killed” SOPA and PIPA? Remember how people said they might come back? Well, they haven’t but they have a cousin called ACTA that’s stirring up similar trouble of a...
View ArticleWhy Is It That Legislators Think Basic Rights Don’t Apply On The Internet?
When it comes to Internet activism and Internet discussion of law in general, you’re bound to find a lot of people arguing for “freedom.” Freedom to do what they want, freedom to say what they want,...
View ArticleChina Moving To Force All Bloggers And Forum Posters To Use Real Names
China, no friend of the Internet to begin with, is now entertaining provisions that would further restrict free Internet use in the country by making online anonymity virtually impossible. The proposed...
View ArticleNew Status Code 451 Pays Tribute to Ray Bradbury
The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) has recently approved of status code 451, which will appear when a “resource access is denied as a consequence of legal demands.” The code was proposed...
View ArticleYouTube Creators No Longer Earning Ad Revenue Because Things Like Depression...
Making a living as a YouTube creator has its ups and its downs. There are certainly many difficulties with it, and thanks to a recent YouTube change, a lot of YouTubers are finding that they’re not...
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