general internet news - 27 March

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

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uk: Warning to chatroom users after libel award for
man labelled a Nazi

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1737444,00.html

au/nz: Blocking porn panned
 http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3616115a28,00.html

au: Porn plan not needed, says IIA

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,18548919%5e15306%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

People use Internet to satisfy other addictions

http://www.purdueexponent.org/index.php/module/Issue/action/Article/article_id/3373

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CENSORSHIP, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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au/nz: Blocking porn panned
InternetNZ is rubbishing a proposal by Australia's
Labor Party to force internet service providers to
block access to websites with R-rated content. 
 http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3616115a28,00.html

eu: Safer Internet Forum
A plenary session of the Safer Internet Forum, open to
all interested, will take place in Luxembourg on
Wednesday 21 June 2006. The meeting will focus on two
topics: "Children's use of new media" and "Blocking
access to illegal content: child sexual abuse images".
The half-day devoted to Children's use of new media
will analyse the results of the Eurobarometer survey
and the Mediappro project. Discussion will focus on
awareness raising tools and ideas on how to exploit
research results for practical awareness raising work.
During the other half-day, the problematic of notice
and take-down of illegal content blocking access to
child sexual abuse images and server-level filtering
of illegal content will be addressed. The purpose of
the Safer Internet Forum 2006 is to contribute to
improve the common understanding of these issues at
European level. As was the case in 2005, participants
will include representatives of industry, law
enforcement authorities, child welfare organisations
and policy makers.

http://europa.eu.int/information_society/activities/sip/si_forum/forum_june_2006/index_en.htm

us: Cyber sickos
Your children know enough not to give out their phone
numbers and addresses to strangers, and they sure
wouldn't share family photos with thousands of people
they don't know.

http://www.nydailynews.com/city_life/story/402724p-341101c.html

us: Be safe in cyber space
Sexual predators are not just lurking on playgrounds
anymore. They are online with the Internet, and they
know a lot more about the lives of local teenagers
than most parents suspect, Texas Attorney General Greg
Abbott told a crowd at Texas High School Tuesday
night.

http://www.texarkanagazette.com/articles/2006/03/22/local_news/news/news01.txt

cn: China closes dozens of websites for online smut,
product piracy
Chinese authorities have shut down dozens of websites
that carried pornographic material or offered pirated
movies or online games, the government announced
Thursday. 

http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/news/gizmos/story.html?id=528520cf-943f-4762-a46e-fd8c7ca0099d

au: Porn plan not needed, says IIA
LABOR'S proposal to block children's access to
pornography and graphic violence online has been
dismissed by the internet industry as unnecessary.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,18548919%5e15306%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060321-6424.html

http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/story/0,20797,18548922-5003418,00.html

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/21/0223200
 http://p2pnet.net/story/8264

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CYBERCRIME, CYBERSECURITY AND PRIVACY
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au: Charges over web death threat
A Central Coast high school student has been accused
of making death threats to two teachers and a
14-year-old girl over the internet.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/03/24/1143083951297.html

uk: Warning to chatroom users after libel award for
man labelled a Nazi
A political argument that erupted in a remote corner
of cyberspace and descended into vicious name-calling
could lead to a spate of libel actions by contributors
to internet message boards, the man at the centre of
the case claimed yesterday.

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1737444,00.html

uk: Net defamation suit leads to libel award
Michael Keith Smith of the U.K. Independence Party has
become the latest person to win substantial damages
after being defamed on the Internet.

http://news.com.com/Net+defamation+suit+leads+to+libel+award/2100-1030_3-6053070.html

us: Big Crackdown on Child Pornography
A new battle line has been drawn in the fight against
child pornography. The word from the federal
prosecutor in Detroit is: no plea deals, and maximum
sentences.

http://www.detnow.com/wxyz/nw_local_news/article/0,2132,WXYZ_15924_4567241,00.html

us: Four men charged in Nigeria e-mail scam
A quartet of suspected e-mail scammers -- three of
them Nigerian citizens -- could face scores of years
in prison if convicted on fraud and conspiracy
charges, the US Justice Department said on Thursday.

http://zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/Four_men_charged_in_Nigeria_e_mail_scam/0,2000061744,39247806,00.htm

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GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY
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New FEC Rules Would Regulate Paid Web Ads
The Federal Election Commission proposed new rules
Friday that would leave almost all Internet political
activity unregulated. The proposal would, however,
require paid advertisements for federal candidates on
the Internet to be paid for with money regulated by
federal campaign law.
 http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FEC_INTERNET

us: Election commission takes light touch with Net
regs
The Internet's freewheeling days as a place exempt
from the heavy hand of federal election laws are about
to end.
 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6053986.html

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INTERNET & NEW TECHNOLOGY USE
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People use Internet to satisfy other addictions
In regards to the story on March 9 about "Internet
addiction" ("Internet addiction affects some
students"), it seems that we are treating the wrong
disorder. The story presents us with the fact that the
Internet (in this "addiction" context) is usually just
a means to an end.

http://www.purdueexponent.org/index.php/module/Issue/action/Article/article_id/3373

eu: Television is going Mobile - and needs a pan
European policy approach
Sppech by Viviane Reding, Member of the European
Commission responsible for Information Society and
Media. International CeBIT Summit, Hannover, Germany,
8 March 2006.

http://europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/06/157&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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