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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 ...
http://www.mmail.com.my/content/10370-ngos-say-no-internet-filtering-government The plan to implement an Internet filtering system, specifically for pornography, has not been received well by the ...
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://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/APCITY/UNPAN002553.pdf There is no general data protection or privacy law in Singapore. The government has been aggressive in using surveill...
This article comments on the government use of the internet to comment and collabrate with the public. According to the author, efficient use of tools to interact with the public will create a "c...
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/63668.html?wlc=1252493244 Two legal groups have filed a lawsuit to get more information on whether the Federal Government may be using Americans' handphones to l...
Reference: Krishnan, S. (2009, June 21). Measuring the effectiveness of online activism. The Hindu. Retrieved September 24, 2009, from Factiva. (Article can be found at bottom of the post) Summary...
URL: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-01-23-bush_x.htm The US government defends their terrorist surveillance program that monitors international communications of suspected terrorist ...
http://mwcnews.net/content/view/33031/42/ The article talks about how technology is making it very easy for the police or the government to monitor personal things like emails. In cases where t...
The article talks about the software that the Chinese government has legislated to be installed on all PCs from July 1st onwards. The software is designed to "filter out pornography and other 'unhe...
http://www.commongroundcommonsense.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t21933.html "Because 95 percent of the libertarianism one encounters at cocktail parties, on editorial pages, and on Capitol Hil...
Article Summary: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/03/wireds-top-inte/ The article talks about several Internet threats comprising government surveillance and the loss of users' privacy throu...
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...
Story URL: http://www.somebodythinkofthechildren.com/boys-in-blue-raid-perths-sunday-times/ Summary of the article: In February, a Sunday Times reporter Paul Lampathakis wrote an article about a ...
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/104278 This article illustrates the profitability of the pornography market today, and also claims that about 12 percent of the websites available on...
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...
