general internet news - 26 May

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

Web 'Shaman' Fights His Demons
Tim Berners-Lee, the man who dreamed up the World Wide Web,
is worried that commercial interests threaten the future of
the Internet. Speaking at the International World Wide Web
Conference, he offers a possible solution.
 http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58942,00.html

Algerian earthquake shows fragility of Turkish internet
Turk Telekom has said the earthquake damaged the undersea
cables linking Italy and Morocco, severing Turkey's links
to Sprint and Cable & Wireless in the US, and Cable &
Wireless in the UK.
 http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=16445

Romanian cyber-porn regulated
The national telecommunications regulator is to receive any
complaints regarding non-compliance of the new draft law on
the ‘prevention’ of pornography.
 http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=16450

http://www.edri.org/cgi-bin/index?funktion=view&id=000100000098

Cyber-crime Convention provisions implemented
A range of new provisions related to cyber-crime have
entered into force in Romania. The cyber-crime-related
provisions are incorporated into Title III of the
Anticorruption law. This is merely an implementation of the
Cyber-crime Convention that was signed by Romania in the
end of 2001.
 http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=16448

Romanian police attack cyber-crime
On 7 May 2003 the Romanian Police held a press conference
at which Mr. Dan Fatuloiu, Adjunct Director of the General
Division on Combating Organised Crime and Drugs presented a
document on cyber-crime.
 http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=16451

Diary of an online porn baron
A Texan man serving 1,335 years in prison for selling child
porn recorded a secret diary, a diary that remains online
even though its author will see out his days behind bars at
a US state penitentiary.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3035115.stm

The U.S. Supreme Court Addresses The Child Pornography
Prevention Act and Child Online Protection Act in Ashcroft
v. Free Speech Coalition and Ashcroft v. American Civil
Liberties Union
Both the Child Pornography Prevention Act ("CPPA") and the
Child Online Protection Act ("COPA") were intended by
Congress to protect minors. The CPPA was intended to
protect minors from the harmful effects of virtual child
pornography. The COPA was intended to protect minors from
pornography currently available commercially on the World
Wide Web. However, in 2002, the U.S. Supreme Court
addressed the constitutionality of both statutes: The Court
struck down sections of the CPPA as overbroad and
unconstitutional in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition. In
Ashcroft v. ACLU, the Court upheld some sections of COPA as
not unconstitutionally overbroad, but expressed no view as
to whether other provisions were overbroad, whether the
statute is vague, or whether COPA survives strict scrutiny.
Currently, neither statute is being enforced, despite the
statutes' laudable motives to protect children. This
Article predicts the future of COPA and recommends further
congressional action to protect minors from the harmful
effects of both virtual and real child pornography, and
from accessing pornography on the Web.
 http://www.law.indiana.edu/fclj/pubs/v55/no1/mota.pdf

Bill to promote Internet filters in libraries stalls
A bill that would pressure public libraries to filter
sexually explicit Internet sites has stalled in committee
after legislative counsel said it is unconstitutional.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-05-21-oregon-filters_x.htm

Save the Children Denmark - new report: Chat - a part of
children's everyday life 
>From Quicklinks - Save the Children, in co-operation with
the Danish Crime Prevention Council and the Children's
Council, has launched a report about Danish children's use
of chat, based on a survey carried out among 991 Danish
schoolchildren. The report therefore looks into the
importance of Internet chatting to today's children and the
context in which the chatting becomes a central pastime
considering both its positive and negative aspects.

http://www.saferinternet.org/downloads/Chatrapport-summary.pdf

10,000 children fooled on the Internet
10,000 Norwegian children have experienced that 'children'
they have met on the Internet were in fact adults. Four out
of ten children have visited pornographic web pages.

http://www.nettavisen.no/servlets/page?section=1706&item=268945

Number of neo-Nazi Web sites has tripled in past four years
Neo-Nazis are using the Internet to attract and recruit
young people to the scene and the number of far-right Web
sites in Germany has more than tripled in the past four
years, according to a study released Monday.

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=294794&contrassID=1

Concern over rise in child porn
Over 200 cases of child porn being circulated via the
Internet were reported to Dutch police in 2002, an alarming
increase on the 35 cases logged in 2001, it was revealed on
Thursday.

http://www.expatica.com/index.asp?HRSite=&pad=2,18,&item_id=31456

'Porn addict boyfriend made me feel dirty'
Life with an addict can be nightmarish and that includes
the scourge of the e-age - addiction to Internet porn. This
is the story of a Cape Town woman who lived with an
Internet porn addict and how the addiction to pornography
downloaded from the Net also hooked her teenage brother.

http://www.itechnology.co.za/index.php?click_id=115&art_id=ct20030523231242631P653535&set_id=1

Internet porn addiction: you can get help
When a Cape Town southern suburbs husband realised that his
pornography habit could become addictive and threaten his
marriage, he changed his behaviour and offered to help
other men trapped in a porn addiction because for an addict
"a computer on the desk is like a heroin user living with
his dealer".

http://www.itechnology.co.za/index.php?click_id=115&art_id=ct20030523231242199P65365&set_id=1

Hale's church sued over use of name on Web site
The racist church led by Matt Hale is thumbing its nose at
a federal judge and has set up a Web site in Australia to
broadcast its name, World Church of the Creator, and sell
its wares in violation of a court order, attorneys suing
the church alleged Wednesday.
 http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-hale22.html

No Violent Games for You, Kids
Gov. Gary Locke signed a bill into law that hits retailers
with a $500 fine for selling or renting video games to
children that depict violence against police.
It's believed to be the first state law of its kind in the
country, according to the bill's sponsor and the
Interactive Digital Software Association, a trade group for
video game manufacturers.
 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58937,00.html

PROMOTING INNOVATION TO PREVENT THE INTERNET FROM BECOMING
A WASTELAND
 http://www.law.indiana.edu/fclj/pubs/v55/no3/Baird.pdf

2 weeks in jail for cyberstalker 
The first person convicted in Lake County of cyberstalking
under a state law enacted two years ago has been sentenced.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0305240051may24,1,5553015.story?coll=chi%2Dtechtopheds%2Dhed

Governments talk tough on spam
The U.S. government and California are nearing passage of
bills that could hit the worst nuisances where it hurts
most--in the wallet--and/or send them to jail. A ZDNet News
Focus.
 http://zdnet.com.com/2251-1110-1009486.html

California fines spammers $500 per email
California State has approved a bill that will allow
spammers to be fined $500 for each unsolicited email they
send.
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2135137,00.html

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-me-spam23may23,1,5755646.story

Lawmakers Unveil Long-Awaited Anti-Spam Bill
U.S. lawmakers introduced a long-awaited anti-spam bill on
Friday that is likely to move quickly through Congress,
despite criticism from consumer groups who say it will do
little to stop the plague of junk e-mail.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=2811844

A Spammer Speaks Out
As a Senate committee sought answers Wednesday on how to
curb the overwhelming surge of junk e-mail, one of the
nation's most notorious spammers told members just how hard
their job would be.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23386-2003May21.html

Microsoft Proposes Law On Junk E-Mail
Microsoft Corp. is proposing a new legislative approach to
battling junk e-mail, hoping to bridge a widening gap
between industry and consumer groups that threatens to bog
down congressional efforts to eradicate spam.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17281-2003May20.html

House panel backs permanent Net tax ban
A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee votes to make
permanent a ban on Internet-specific taxes, but online
sales taxes are another matter.
 http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-1009460.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26893-2003May22.html

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-internet23may23,1,2530685.story

Pentagon Defends Data Search Plan
The Pentagon submitted a report to Congress on Tuesday that
said the Total Information Awareness program is not the
centralized spying database its critics say it is.
 http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,58936,00.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15395-2003May20.html
 http://www.eff.org/Privacy/TIA/20030520_tia_report.php

Documentation of Gator Advertisements and Targeting
The Gator Corporation designs software to display
advertisements on users' computer screens, triggered in
part by the specific web sites users visit. The author has
developed an automated method of determining which specific
advertisements Gator has associated with which web sites,
data that may be helpful to web site operators,
policy-makers, and others in assessing Gator's practices.
This article offers listings of more than seven thousand
specific sites targeted by Gator as well as analysis of the
advertisements shown. An interface is also available to let
interested Internet users to test Gator's advertisements on
their own.
 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/edelman/ads/gator
 http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-1008954.html

'How Nigerians Can Make Best Use of ICT' 
As more opportunities open up in advanced societies for
knowledgeable ICT people in developing countries like
Nigeria to seize wealth-creating advantage of, Nigerians
have been asked to pursue a strategy based on learning the
lessons of the best players and subsequently innovating
beyond such lessons.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200305230981.html

802.11g on Track for Ratification
The group behind the development of the 802.11 standard for
wireless networking has agreed on a final draft for the
802.11g specification, setting the stage for official
standards approval in June.
 http://www.internetnews.com/wireless/article.php/2211211
 http://www.80211-planet.com/news/article.php/2211211

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