Canada’s telecoms regulator, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is in the midst of a network neutrality proceeding, and the responses that rolled in this week were vociferous. Several ISPs and music groups objected to any such rules, arguing that they might stop ISPs from implementing all sorts of wonderful policies such as P2P [...]
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Monthly Archives: February 2009
Feb 27
Egypt: Bloggers for Terrorism
Last November, blogger Mohamed Adel, or General Mait (dead), was detained because of a photograph taken of him, with a Palestinian Hamas official. The damning evidence was clicked when Adel participated in a humanitarian caravan to the Gaza Strip.
Since then, Egyptian activists and bloggers have been left scratching their heads, thinking of ways to draw [...]
Feb 27
New Zealand asks ISPs to censor child porn
At the end of this month, New Zealand’s ISPs are required to start disconnecting users accused of infringing copyright multiple times. ISPs are also being asked to start censoring 7,000 Web sites under a government plan to make it harder for Kiwis to access child pornography over the Internet.
New Zealand has long censored various material—the [...]
Feb 27
Qatar: Tagged.com blocked
Twitter user Ammar Mohammed, from Qatar, reports that tagged.com has been blocked in that country.