general internet news - 20 October

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

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CENSORSHIP, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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au: THE ANDREW OLLE MEDIA LECTURE 2005
For anyone interested in the media in Australia, and
from an Australian perspective, this Andrew Olle
Memorial Lecture is well worth a listen (41 minutes),
or even a read of the transcript. On the internet, the
presenter, John Doyle (aka Rampaging Roy slaven),
notes:
"Welcome to the age of infinite Information. Small
cataclysmic events are happening all the time at the
speed of light. The Internet allows anyone anywhere to
access information that might be true, might be false,
but you can find whatever information you need to
prosecute any argument you want. Conspiracy theories
abound. History can be written any way you wish. In
the past, information bound culture. There was a
shared sense of a gradually expanding library of
sensible and responsible scholarship whereas now
information is serving more to fracture culture. The
future of information is with bloggers. And who knows
what the blogging implications might be of a
generation aching for the steely coldness of Grand
Theft Auto San Andreus and other games involving cyber
murder, cyber torture and on line sex and anonymous
chat rooms and bomb-making instructions and clubs
dedicated to nihilism and terrorism and all manner of
misguided madnesses designed to accelerate Rapture."
 http://abc.net.au/sydney/stories/s1476723.htm

Kazakh websites under pressure ahead of poll
A leading pro-opposition news website in Kazakhstan
has been closed by court order and others have
experienced technical problems in the run-up to a
presidential election in the Central Asian state.

http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=9959727

ir: Tehran seeking new ways to censor the Internet and
track dissidents
Reporters Without Borders today accused the Iranian
government of seeking to increase its control of the
Internet in recent measures that have included
contracting an Iranian company, Delta Global, to set
up a new online censorship system.
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=15343

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LEGAL AND SECURITY
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nz: Spoof site faces religious lawsuit
A New Zealand website spoofing Hollywood actor Tom
Cruise and his religion of choice is facing legal
action from the Church of Scientology. ... Stollery
will change the website name to Passion of Cruise but
says he won't be relinquishing the scienTOMogy name to
the church.
 http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411419/620780

uk: Google drops Gmail address in UK
Gmail, the free e-mail service run by internet search
giant Google, will change its name for new UK users.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4354954.stm

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-1833140,00.html

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/19/gmail_trademark_dispute/

http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=9970565

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,16559,1595575,00.html

us: Best Buy sued over ex-worker's cyberstalking
Nicole Christopoulos took her malfunctioning computer
to Best Buy in hopes of getting it repaired. And while
the man behind the counter accessed her hard drive, it
wasn't solely to repair a problem.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-bestbuy19.html

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INTERNET & NEW TECHNOLOGY USE
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Estonia pulls off nationwide Net voting
A tiny Baltic nation last week became what appears to
be the first country to open its its local elections
to Internet voting on a nationwide level--although
only about 1 percent of the votes were cast online.
 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9592_22-5898115.html

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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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us: Google, Yahoo Out Of Censored Commerce Report
A Department of Commerce report on how offshore
outsourcing has affected tech jobs in the US was
sanitized to present a brighter job picture.

http://webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/wpn-60-20051017GoogleYahooOutOfCensoredCommerceReport.html

http://businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_42/c3955025.htm#ZZZ24WZQGEE

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ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN
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au: Child pornography charges ? Surry Hills (news
release)
A 28-year-old man will appear in Central Local Court
this afternoon charged with possessing child
pornography.

http://police.nsw.gov.au/news/recent_media_unit_information?sq_remote_page_action=fetch_url&sq_remote_page_url=http%3A%2F%2Fcustomscripts.police.nsw.gov.au%2Fnews%2Fdetails_media.php%3FMediaID%3D5000

http://customscripts.police.nsw.gov.au/news/details_media.php?MediaID=4996

gr: Police arrest child porn website operators
Authorities in Greece have filed charges against 20
people accused of running a child pornography Web site
that featured sexually explicit photos of children as
young as four, police said on Tuesday.

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1129658940208B262

http://smh.com.au/news/breaking/net-child-porn-ring-broken-up/2005/10/19/1129401290676.html

ca: Child rape in email
Graphic photographs of the rape of a young girl were
embedded in a spammed e-mail sent across Canada this
weekend -- just the latest in an increasingly
aggressive campaign by online marketers of child porn.

http://ottsun.canoe.ca/News/National/2005/10/17/1265454-sun.html

us: Online Smut Peddler Takes Guilty Plea
A Washington, D.C., man is facing up to 30 years in
prison after pleading guilty to federal charges of
using the Internet to distribute and receive child
pornography.
 http://internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3556781

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