Say “Protest” while talking on a phone in China, it shuts off

China is tightening up its online censorship even more since worldwide protesting and revolts in North America, the Middle East, and abroad have increased, the Times reports. A host of evidence over the past several weeks shows that Chinese authorities are even more determined than ever to police cellphone calls, electronic messages, e-mail and access [...]

In Real Life: Loving Social Networking and Love on Social Networks

How much time do you spend on social networking sites? How real is your relationships that you have formed online? Something to think about

New bill gives government complete control of Internet?

Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Wednesday, June 16, 2010 The federal government would have “absolute power” to shut down the Internet under the terms of a new US Senate bill being pushed by Joe Lieberman, legislation which would hand President Obama a figurative “kill switch” to seize control of the world wide web in response [...]

America backs off of total control of the Internet

source: newscientist.com POLITICAL power is rarely ceded without good reason. So eyebrows were raised last week when the US Department of Commerce decided to relax its grip on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the body responsible for the naming system that ensures that when you type a web address, your browser [...]

Fakes on the Internet: The epidemic

Bathroom camera phone “models”, totally unknown “famous rap artists”, and Internet “gangsters” all fall into the category of fakes on the web; but what happens when this goes too far?