Contents contributed and discussions participated by Amit Kelkar
NBN study supressed | The Australian - 1 views
European Parliament Rips Global IP Accord | Threat Level | Wired.com - 0 views
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The European Parliament overwhelmingly voted to explicitly oppose any law or global agreement which would entail ISPs to punish customers for breaches of copyright. They have also demanded that documents surrounding the secret worldwide negotiations, which Australia is also involved in, be released publicly.
Open Culture Blog - 3 views
slic 27-3 Richard Beaudry - 3 views
Global Voices Online » China: Mobilizing mothers for censorship - 3 views
The Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative | The White House - 0 views
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Howard Schdmit, The Whitehouse's Cybersecurity coordinator has revealed the US Government's plans for tackling attacks on it's networks. He has promised transparency. The official announcement (this bookmark) is very vague in it's initiatives. It will be interesting to see whether their can really separate US government networks from other parts of the Internet. Cyber attacks are definitely increasing and play a major part in conflicts between countries. China amongst others is said to have attacked & attempted to hack and launch DoS attacks on US government networks and Russia shut down the Georgian communications infrastructure during the last week between the two countries et. )
Online ombudsman for Facebook woes? | The Australian - 3 views
Tweets of Freedom - Project Syndicate - 1 views
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Describes how twitter is being used for citizen participation and "democracy" in various countries from Moldova, Iran and now China. The author proposes that the best way to reduce censorship and promote "democracy" is not political pressure, but to "flood the Chinese market, and those of other countries that restrict freedom of expression, with cutting-edge technology". My opinion: Although Twitter seems to be good at allowing citizens to organise and to create consensus, it does not seem to translate well to actual policy outcome.