On the day the World Wide Web celebrates its twentieth anniversary, it's worth considering what the future holds for the Web and the Internet as a whole. Yesterday I threw out the question on Twitter and Google+, receiving some excellent answers back. Here are some of the best.
Previously confidential documents detailing Universal Music's meetings with the former UK government over the Digital Economy Act are revealing a whole lot more than the pair intended. Blacked-out sections now uncovered show that Universal believed that ISPs could spy on their users and hand over information to rightsholders in order for them to sue.
A radical new approach to thwarting Internet censorship would essentially turn the whole web into a proxy server, making it virtually impossible for a censoring government to block individual sites.The system is called Telex, and it is the brainchild of computer science researchers at the University of Michigan and the University of Waterloo in Canada.
IT took Rob Oakeshott 17 minutes to say "I do" to Julia Gillard - how long would it take him to call, "Order" if he were Speaker in Federal Parliament?
TONY Abbott is accused of "payback" against Malcolm Turnbull's backers as Coalition unity splinters following his frontbench reshuffle. There is widespread anger among Liberal MPs and even warnings of leadership instability down the track.
Protests had made the legislation for internet censorship voluntary. However, Telstra seemed less agreed than Optus to provide voluntary censorship to users
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"the Australian Federal Government has announced its intention to introduce new legislation to compel Australian Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to filter all information transfer in Australia, with the intent of stopping the general public from accessing selected information."
Internet censorship can really limit your activities on the internet. Mostly, countries ban some websites from being used with regional IP addresses while sometimes the websites don't give access to IP addresses of certain regions. However, the problems of internet censorship can be solved with the help of VPNs.
Various techniques are in use by netizens in China to bypass the severe Internet Censorship the government has set up. Among them, SSH tunnel and VPN are two of the safest and most popular solutions. I myself run a PPTP VPN service on a VPS in the US.