 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A video calling for the arrest of Joseph Kony, the fugitive leader of the Lord's Resistance Army militia group in Uganda, swept across the Internet this week, attracting a wave of support on Twitter and Facebook along with a skeptical backlash against a little-known team of filmmakers based in San Diego.
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ROME (Reuters) - Roman Catholic Church leaders unveiled an Internet teaching project on Thursday to help clergy around the world root out pedophiles in their ranks and protect children from potential abusers.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A blackout scheduled for Wednesday to protest against proposed legislation on online piracy has failed to get the support of the biggest Internet players.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Indian government on Friday threw its weight behind a case against internet giants including Google and Facebook, who are embroiled in a battle over offensive content after a judge warned websites may be blocked "like in China."
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Consumers who illegally download copyrighted films, music or television shows might see their Internet speed slowed or access restricted under an industry anti-piracy effort announced on Thursday.
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 Reuters - Consumers who illegally download copyrighted films, music or television shows might see their Internet speed slowed or access restricted under an industry anti-piracy effort announced on Thursday.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Consumers who illegally download copyrighted films, music or television shows might see their Internet speed slowed or access restricted under an industry anti-piracy effort announced on Thursday.
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Internet activists and digital entrepreneurs warned Wednesday that if global leaders attempt to limit access to the Web, their restrictions will be bypassed and they will become irrelevant.
The stark message adds to growing resistance -- from big name companies like Google and Twitter to anonymous Internet vigilantes who have attacked government censorship networks -- against creeping laws that might one day restrict services many users now take for granted.
The leaders of the Group of Eight most powerful countries begin meeting in France on Thursday to discuss issues of global concern in the wake of the Arab uprising that have been described as the first Internet-enabled revolutions.
"G-8 governments should say very clearly for once that Internet access is a fundamental human right," said Jean-Francois Julliard, who heads free speech group Reporters without Borders.
Julliard said more than 60 countries now have some form of Internet censorship in place, and that number is growing.
Tony Wang, Twitter's general manager for Europe, said attempts to crack down on free expression are self-defeating.
He declined to discuss attempts in Britain to enforce the country's strict privacy law against users of the micro-blogging site. But Wang told a panel in Paris -- at what is being described as the first e-G-8 conference -- that "the response to bad speech should be more speech."
Earlier this year, Twitter teamed up with Google to create a service allowing Egyptians to post messages on the Internet even after the government had cut Web access in an effort to quell street protests.
"We take that open communication channel for granted at our peril," Google's regional policy director Susan Pointer said.
Support for unrestricted Web access also came from the U.S. government. Alec Ross, a special adviser to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, said Washington recently spent $28 million training democracy activists to use tools... newsfactor.com » |
PC World - Thousands of Turks protested Sunday both online and on the streets against new Internet controls proposed by the Turkish government. Yahoo! News: Internet News » |
Reuters - The House of Representatives voted on Friday to disapprove Internet "neutrality" rules that were adopted last year by the Federal Communications Commission. Yahoo! News: Internet News » |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives voted on Friday to disapprove Internet "neutrality" rules that were adopted last year by the Federal Communications Commission.
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 AFP - Internet service has been completely severed in violence-torn Libya for the second time in two weeks, US online traffic monitoring firms said Friday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lobbyists for phone, cable and Internet companies including Yahoo Inc and Microsoft Corp met on Wednesday to again try to agree on how to manage Internet traffic, three sources familiar with the meeting said.
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 AFP - Clashes between the maker of Blackberry smart phones and India, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are the latest rounds in a cat-and-mouse game pitting authorities against technologies racing beyond their grasp.
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