Internet news stories

[David Goldstein <goldstein_david@yahoo.com.au>]

Hi all

A collection of Internet news stories some may find interesting to
scroll through.

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David

The Kids Are Alright - Regulating Minors' Access to the Internet Can
Backfire
When Chris Manley, a high school senior in South Carolina, started
thinking about applying for college, his teachers recommended he use
the school library computer to research universities like Duke and
Stanford. But he couldn't reach their Web sites. This was hardly a
case of computer illiteracy. "At my school they have filtering
software," Manley says simply, "and I can't get to these sites,
because they've been blocked." 
 http://www.sfgate.com/technology/bios/

Costa Rica Gets Tough on Kid Porn Children's rights advocates have
criticized the Central American country for being a haven for
pedophiles, but a 23-year sentence handed down for corruption of
minors and drug dealing could send a strong message. 
 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,46481,00.html

GERMAN AGREEMENT MAY RESULT IN TOUGHER NET CONTROLSAn agreement
between the German federal and stategovernments on reform of
electronic media regulatorysupervision could result in tougher
controls on net content. The agreement provides for the federal
government to handleall technical and regulatory
authority.http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/169613.html

NAIS RELEASES ICANN REFORM STUDY
The NGO and Academic ICANN Study (NAIS) has released its
final report on reforming ICANN.  The report calls for an
open at-large membership with strong participation in policy
matters and representation on the ICANN board equal to the
total number of directors selected by Supporting
Organizations.  Report at
 http://www.naisproject.org/report/final/
 Internet Groups Urge Public Participation
 http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/01/technology/01DOMA.html

INDIA TO OPEN FIRST CYBERCRIME POLICE STATION
India has announced plans to open its first police station
designed to deal exclusively with cybercrime.  The station,
which will start work next month, will be  based in
Bangalore.
 http://technology.scmp.com/internet/ZZZ30Q0FQQC.html

A New Player in the Domain-Name Game 
As the Internet landscape grows, it's both more necessary and more
difficult to find out who's who online. The "whois" lookup service
has always let Internet users investigate who owns an Internet domain
-- the dot-com moniker (or .org., .net, .edu or whatever) at the end
of an Internet address -- but it's often slow and confusing to use.
Whonami (http://www.whonami.com) digs into the same database as other
whois sites, but works faster and simpler. Enter a domain name
without any prefixes such as "www," and the site returns the usual
details -- contact info for its owner, along with brief info about
the domain's Internet providers. Or enter a term by itself, without
any three- or two-letter extension, to see who owns associated
domains in dozens of different commercial and country-specific
registries, from Ascension Island (.ac) to South Africa (.za). 
 http://www.whonami.com/



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