Internet activists are urging Barack Obama to pass legislation that would make it illegal for technology companies to collaborate with authoritarian countries that censor the internet. -The Guardi...
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14483896 The article above details the issue surrounding the telecommunications markets in the developing countries. It mentions how...
Big Blue will supply its analytics know-how to a key U.S. military force in the battle against terrorism October 13, 2009 By Stephen Baker TECHNOLOGY Can the analytic science that powers operati...
From a Critical Ethic perspective, Who do patents and copyrights protect? What kind of ideologies underly such a policy? I would argue that it is the capitalist ideologies, individualist ideolo...
I've seen that video recently. Anyway, some points i need to make. 1. different countries have different ages of consent. Does that mean children mature faster in some countries and not in other...
Article : Go slow with tech law Published : 23 Aug 2009 Source: Straits Times Background : When Singapore signed a free trade agreement with the USA in 2003, intellectual property rights was a ...
http://www.riverdeep.net/current/2002/01/011402t_divide.jhtml This article essentially explains the concept of a digital divide, provides some statistics of this issue in the United States and bri...
Article Summary: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091002/pl_afp/usitmilitaryintelligencesecurityinternet_20091002130920 The article talks about the US Navy's announcement about it consolidating inte...
wow interesting! like a start to the creation of super heroes!! it kind of sound like science is playing God here, determining and extending lives. it is already evident now in this society without...
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-5852898-7.html Shi Tao, a Chinese journalist is being convicted of sending a government's 'top secret' message that was sent to the newspaper agency he was workin...
http://www.mrbrown.com/blog/2007/04/muar_rapper_on_.html http://mt.m2day.org/2008/content/view/13039/84/ The two links above talk about Wee Meng Chee, a Malaysian rapper who is currently pursuing...
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1002815/1/.html International guidelines on sex education reignite debate By Ong Dailin, TODAY | Posted: 04 September 2009 071...
Reference: Democracy Project to Fill Gap in Online Politics (2000, June 8). PR Newswire. Retrieved 23 September, 2009, from Factiva. (Article can be found at bottom of the post) Summary: The D...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/17/AR2006081700650.html After 11 Sept 2001, President Bush commissioned a warrant-less wiretapping program. Since its exposé, it has co...
Elaine said: What are the standards put in place to determine whether something is of adult content? Who set those standards? Based on 'general' beliefs and what the government/"web police'' think ...
Article: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/06/30/china.green.dam/index.html Summary: China has passed a mandate requiring all personal computers sold in the country to be accompanied by a contro...
1) I think it depends what is being censored. I think things like opinions should not be censored because it is violating the natural rights of a human. However, one can argue that online censors...
Before I start, I should first say that this is coming from my previous experience as a non-professional film-maker hahaha...... I feel that film producers and directors should have the freedom to...
Case Summary: The article is about an intellectual property infringement that took place in China. A court in Eastern China has sentenced four people to up to three-and-a-half years in prison for ...
URL: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/10/rand_us_should.html;jsessionid=SMFM5O2F4DCNBQE1GHOSKH4ATMY32JVN The article talks about the common cyber warfare tools: denia...
