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News Bytes Monday, March 22nd 2010, 11:49am EDT House passes historic healthcare overhaul. News Article Monday, March 22nd 2010, 11:48am EDT Octomom Avoids Foreclosure if the Porn Is RIGHT Octomom Nadya Suleman received a very nice letter from someone who says he is truly sorry her house may go into foreclosure and, he says, "I can only imagine the anxiety that this must be causing you and your family." But this guy isn't just talk ... he's willing to pay off her home if Octo stars in a sex tape. TMZ has obtained a letter from Steven Hirsch, Prez of Vivid Entertainment, to Octomom, in which he offers to pay off the balance due on the house -- around $460,000 -- if she's willing to take it lying down. News Article Monday, March 22nd 2010, 11:47am EDT Windows XP Mode skips virtualisation hardware requirements. Microsoft pushed out a software update late last week that strips away some hardware requirements for running Windows XP Mode on Windows 7 computers, in a move designed to convince more SMBs to upgrade their operating systems. The software maker said Windows XP Mode no longer needed hardware virtualisation technology to run. "This change makes it extremely easy for businesses to use Windows XP Mode to address any application incompatibility roadblocks they might have in migrating to Windows 7," said Microsoft's Brandon LeBlanc in a blog post. News Article Monday, March 22nd 2010, 11:46am EDT Getting Started with Online Video Analytics, Part 1 I have to admit: I'm just not that into making online videos. Sure, I've logged countless hours watching YouTube, Hulu, and the like since January 2007. But my YouTube account has remained empty. Don't get me wrong, video certainly has it's purpose and place, I just never felt those things align for me before. There are lots of reasons: News Article Monday, March 22nd 2010, 11:45am EDT Firefox zero-day fix set up for 30 March release. Mozilla confirmed the presence of an unpatched flaw in its browser on Thursday, with a post promising to release a fix at the end of the month. The flaw, discovered by security researcher Evgeny Legerov and reported by The Reg last month, creates a means to inject hostile code on vulnerable systems. The vulnerability is due to be fixed in version 3.6 of Firefox on 30 March.In the meantime, the more technically adept or security-conscious user can update to the beta version of the 3.6.2 release, which already plugs the security flaw. News Article Monday, March 22nd 2010, 11:45am EDT Man could face prison over six second 'extreme porn' clip. A man has been warned he faces a custodial sentence after pleading guilty to possession of what prosecutors described as "extreme porn" at Mold Crown Court last week. Campaigners against the extreme porn law are now waiting with some concern to see what the court decides when the accused, Andrew Robert Holland, of Coedpoeth, Wrexham, Clwyd returns for sentencing in April. The case started out as high farce. Following a raid by North Wales police last summer, Holland was charged with two offences under ss.63-68 of the Criminal Justice Act 2008. The first charge centred on an allegation that he had in his possession a clip featuring human-animal sex. This was dropped after the prosecution discovered that the animal in question – a tiger – was actually a CGI-generated spoof, modelled loosely on Tony the Tiger of Frosties fame, and that the tiger finished off his sex act by turning to camera and saying "That beats doing adverts for a living". The second and more serious charge alleged that Holland had downloaded and viewed a six-second clip of human-on-human extreme porn. According to Holland, this was sent to him as a joke - he viewed it just once, but made the mistake of not getting round to deleting it. News Article Monday, March 22nd 2010, 11:44am EDT Top 5 Web Site Usability Mistakes. Although key aspects of Web site usability and navigation may seem trivial, more often than not they are overlooked during a Web site overhaul. This occurs because the redesign process is usually carried out not by a single person but by several individuals who negotiate specific elements. When these site elements pass from one phase to the next, simple usability principles are often forgotten. News Article Monday, March 22nd 2010, 11:43am EDT Health Group Recommends Condoms Required in Porn Industry. One of the Health Safety Boards in California, decided to study a new requirement for the pornography industry, which was recommended by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. The current California law states that porn stars must not test positive for HIV and other sexually related diseases, in a time span of 30 days before filming begins. The managers of this industry believe the present requirement is enough. Some years ago the porno industry was shut down for a while because one of its stars tested positive for AIDS. The porno industry is not happy with this study being pushed by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. The porno industry like many others has been hit hard by the downturn in the economy. They are claiming that the wearing of condoms will lose customers who want to see it all, not a condom taking away from their view and action. News Article Monday, March 22nd 2010, 11:42am EDT US Marshalls Bust NYC Gay Porn Store On the surface of this story, it seems like another example of corrupt law enforcement officials raiding a gay haunt. But this time, the feds were busting the Christopher Street gay porn shop for commiting gay on gay crime. B&B Bookstore has been making illegal copies of gay porn favorites and selling the pirated tapes to gay New Yorkers. According to online reports, the owners of B&B greeted the Marshalls with a friendly handshake. The raid yielded more than 10,000 counterfeit DVDs. Among the items seized were films produced by Pitbull Productions. Pitbull Productions, makers of such movies such as Breed It Raw (Volumes 1 through 4) and Booty Juice Whores, are suing on intellectual property grounds. They are accusing B&B of for “engaging in the duplication, importation, distribution, and/or sale of unauthorized merchandise infringing on copyrighted and trademarked properties. News Article Monday, March 22nd 2010, 11:41am EDT Internet usage in Canada overtakes television watching. For the first time ever, Canadians are spending more time online than they are watching television, according to a new report. The survey, conducted by Ipsos Reid last fall found that Canadians are spending more than 18 hours a week online, compared to 16.9 hours watching television. Interestingly, Internet usage and the number of hours watching television have both experienced a rise since last year. Web surfing is up from 14.9 hours last year and television watching rose to 15.8 hours. Other media, such as newspapers, radio and magazines have all remained relatively stable in the last year. The survey also found that the age gap in Internet usage is narrowing. On average, 18-34 year olds are spending 20 hours a week online, compared to 18 hours for those over the age of 35.  News Article Monday, March 22nd 2010, 11:41am EDT Chinese media launches new attack on Google. China's state-run Xinhua news agency launched a new broadside against Google Inc (GOOG.O) on Monday, saying in an angry commentary that the company had reneged on promises to abide by Chinese law. Speculation is swirling that Google will soon announce a decision to pull out of China, or at least shut down its Chinese search engine. The Financial Times, citing a person familiar with the situation, said the company could say on Monday that it will close its Chinese search engine. Google has not formally unveiled any such plans. News Bytes Friday, March 19th 2010, 10:52am EDT Health bill would cost company $100M -- in the first year alone! News Article Friday, March 19th 2010, 10:51am EDT Dirty D Posts Bail Following Florida Arrest on Tuesday Adult webmaster Dirty D, who was arrested Tuesday by Florida law enforcement after returning to the United States from Spain, posted bail in the amount of $200,000 Wednesday night and was released from jail at approximately 5 p.m., according to a source close to the case. Dirty D, whose real name is Michael Storm, was arrested on two counts of use of a child in a sexual performance and two counts of promotion of a sexual performance by a child, reports TBO.com. In February, two members of Storm’s camera crew, Stephen Chastain, 36, and Ryan Holtz, 24, also were arrested and charged with two counts of promotion of a sexual performance by child. They posted bail at the time in the amount of $20,000 and were released. News Article Friday, March 19th 2010, 10:49am EDT Video Truth Or Fiction: Did 30 Rock Call Comcast A Porn Company? Last week’s episode of 30 Rock featured a “truth is better than fiction” plot line that introduced the acquisition of NBC by a Philadelphia-based cable provider known as “Kabletown” (which parallels the real-life drama behind Comcast’s efforts to purchase the real-life television network.) Of course, 30 Rock is a fictional comedy whose writers consistently have Escher-esque fun with real-life influences and characters. But one has to wonder if the disparaging depiction of the cable provider’s revenue dependence on pay-per-view pornography isn’t a real-life concern in the halls of NBC HQ. In the following clip, Alec Baldwin’s character Jack Donaghy meets with a former NBC colleague who is now at Kabletown, who is all to eager to alleviate Donaghy’s fears for being laid off. The reason why their revenue goals are set for the future? The profits of porn pedding… News Article Friday, March 19th 2010, 10:48am EDT Lawyers try to ban sale of Tiger Woods sex doll. Lawyers for Tiger Woods are reported to be trying to halt the sale of a series of sex toys which exploit the golfer's new-found reputation as a sex maniac. They include a 'Take Home Tiger Love Doll' and packages of 'wood cover' super-size condoms. The items are for sale on the website of Pipedream Products, which advertises such handy products as "the world's first rotating vibrating cordless masturbator". In other words, this is NOT the John Lewis white goods department. Probably the most offensive in the Tiger range - offensive to Woods and his family, at any rate - is the doll. "Just add air and this cocky champ will share his Major-winning wood with you," runs the promo. News Article Friday, March 19th 2010, 10:48am EDT Why the Internet Should Win the Nobel Peace Prize This year, a Chinese dissident and a Russian human rights advocate — recent nominees for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize — are joined by an unlikely, nonhuman contender: the internet. A campaign to nominate the web, first put forth by the editors of Wired Italy, proclaims that the internet has “laid the foundations for a new kind of society,” in which massive interpersonal contact fosters consensus and understanding. Predictably, the internet’s nomination was met with a wave of skepticism. After all, isn’t it ridiculous to give one of the world’s greatest honors to an inanimate technology? A friend of mine asked, “How about we give [the Nobel] to paper, since that’s what all peace agreements have been written on?” The nomination seems especially ill-advised when we consider how un-Nobel-like online life tends to be. The primary use of social networking sites is “meforming,” or frequent updates about the minutia of people’s lives that one research group duly categorized as “pointless babble.” And if the internet’s most common asset is keeping us posted on what old high school classmates are having for brunch, then its risks may be more important. News Article Friday, March 19th 2010, 10:47am EDT Court Slaps Prosecutor Who Threatened Child-Porn Charges Over ‘Sexting’ A Pennsylvania appellate court upheld a preliminary injunction on Wednesday barring local prosecutors from filing felony child-porn charges against a teenage girl who took a partially nude photo of herself with her cellphone. The court said prosecutors were using the threat of charges as retaliation against the teen for exercising her constitutional right to refuse a voluntary reeducation program favored by the district attorney. The court also determined it was likely the girl and her parents will succeed in a civil rights lawsuit they’ve filed against the district attorney’s office. Last year, District Attorney George P. Skumanick, Jr., threatened to charge three teenage girls with felony child-porn violations over digital photos they took of themselves. News Article Friday, March 19th 2010, 10:46am EDT FSC Responds to CalOSHA Call For Advisory Committee on Condoms During a meeting today, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health Standards (CalOSHA) Board of Directors approved the formation of an advisory committee to consider amending current CalOSHA compliance regulations for the adult industry. A group of adult industry representatives and stakeholders attended today’s meeting; including Free Speech Coalition (FSC) Executive Director Diane Duke; Adult Industry Medical Healthcare (AIM) spokesperson and neurologist Dr. H.A. Aranow; First Amendment attorney Paul Cambria; FSC California lobbyist Ignacio Hernandez; and performer Angelina Armani. News Article Friday, March 19th 2010, 10:44am EDT Lawmakers Question Child Porn Bill A Delaware Senate committee says the attorney general's office needs to do more work on a bill it is proposing to allow civil lawsuits for possession of child pornography. Among other things, the bill discussed in committee Wednesday presumes that a plaintiff who wins such a lawsuit is entitled to at least $150,000 in damages and can recover attorneys' fees. But lawmakers said the bill's language suggests that an unsuspecting person who opens a spam e-mail with a pornographic image could be sued and have to pay a huge damage award. A teenager who has a nude picture of a friend on a cell phone also might face a lawsuit, even if it isn't sent to someone else. News Article Friday, March 19th 2010, 10:41am EDT 10 Copywriting Tips for SEO and PPC This article provides helpful information for any copywriter trying to adjust to working with an SEO/SEM agency. 1. Write for your audience first, then search engines. Crossing brand communication and sales driven goals with manipulating search engine algorithms is not a process which involves any comprimise. Firstly write from a sales perspective, then tweak your copy until it meets keyword density requirements. 2. Write as much as possible! When writing for search engines the more content you have on your website the better. That is as long as it ties in tightly with your websites theme and purpose. Through having more content on your webpages you open up opportunities for people to come across your website through long-tail search terms.  News Article Friday, March 19th 2010, 10:39am EDT Safety Board to Weigh Enforcing Condoms in Porn Condoms might be the only thing porn actors are required to wear if the state's workplace safety board approves a petition mandating their use. In a hearing Thursday, the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board will hear testimony from the Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation. The advocacy group filed a petition in December to require condoms be used in porn. The advocacy group wants the same sort of workplace protections in place for nurses and doctors to be extended to porn, to protect actors from sexually-transmitted diseases like HIV. By law, U.S. adult film actors must prove they have tested negative for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases within 30 days of going to work on a film. News Article Friday, March 19th 2010, 10:38am EDT Court: Cyberbullying Threats Not Protected Speech A California appeals court ruled this week that threatening posts made by readers of a website are not protected free speech, allowing a case charging the posters with hate crimes and defamation to proceed. The case raises fundamental questions about cyberbullying and the line between online speech and hate crimes. In her dissenting opinion, Judge Frances Rothschild said the appellate court ruling “alters the legal landscape to the severe detriment of First Amendment rights.” The case involves a teen identified as “D.C.” in court documents, who launched a website in 2005 when he was 15 to promote his pursuit of an acting and singing career. According to court documents, the student has recorded an album and played a leading role in an unnamed feature film, using the pseudonym “Danny Alexander.” Fellow students at his private high school, Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, posted derogatory comments on his site, mocking his perceived sexual orientation and making hostile statements that threatened him with bodily harm, such as “Faggot, I’m going to kill you,” and “I want to rip out your fucking heart and feed it to you.” News Article Friday, March 19th 2010, 10:37am EDT Google to leave China on April 10 Google is expected to announce on Monday that it will withdraw from China on April 10, according to a report in a Beijing-based newspaper that cited an unidentified sales associate who works with the company. "I have received information saying that Google will leave China on April 10, but this information has not at present been confirmed by Google," the China Business News quoted the agent as saying. The report also said Google would reveal its plans for its China-based staff that day. News Bytes Thursday, March 18th 2010, 10:40am EDT Greek PM warns of debt spiral, hopes to avoid IMF. News Article Thursday, March 18th 2010, 10:39am EDT Two Dirty D employees arrested in Tampa, Florida in connection with filming a minor in a porn video. Law enforcement officials issued a warrant for two men who they say filmed a minor in two pornographic videos, and on Wednesday, two police departments arrested Stephen Shawn Chastain, 36, and Ryan Jay Holtz, 24, and charged them with two counts of promoting a sexual performance by a child. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement said they were present at a Tampa house in 2007 when a 17-year-old girl was filmed in two porn videos. According to an arrest warrant, Chastain and Michael Storm, also known as "Dirty D," were present when Holtz asked the girl if she had her fake identification. Storm, 44, gave her a release form to sign and said he knew she was only 17, the warrant states. Chastain said he would pay her $500. They then filmed two videos, one at the house and the other at Fantasy Land Adult Video, FDLE officials said. Chastain was arrested by Tampa police, and Holtz was arrested by St. Petersburg police Wednesday. Both were released on $20,000 bail. News Article Thursday, March 18th 2010, 10:35am EDT EU Court: Sex shops must charge normal sales tax. Sex shops that show movies in cubicles are not entitled to charge their customers at a lower sales tax rate meant for cinemas, the EU high court ruled Thursday. The court said Belgium was right in 2004 to recoup almost euro50,000 ($70,000) in unpaid value added taxes from the "Erotic Center," a sex shop in the city of Ghent. The store charged customers only a 6 percent VAT tax, not the usual 21 percent, because it claimed its cubicles are actually cinemas. Culture, sports and entertainment venues are taxed at the reduced rate. News Article Thursday, March 18th 2010, 10:35am EDT Free Speech 2257 Lawsuit Likely to Survive Motion to Dismiss. It's probably a good thing that U.S. District Judge Michael Baylson moved the scheduled time for the argument on the government's motion to dismiss Free Speech Coalition's (FSC) anti-2257 lawsuit from 4 p.m. to 2 p.m. last Friday, because the attorneys for both sides spent the better part of three hours sparring with each other and responding to the judge's hypothetical questions. The argument took place in the United States District Courthouse for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, which is part of the Third Federal Circuit. News Article Thursday, March 18th 2010, 10:34am EDT Paid Search Freakonomics: Finding and Ostracizing Losers. The idea of a good paid search account is a myth. An account is simply an aggregation of campaigns. Campaigns combine ad groups. Ad groups roll up text ads and keywords. Keywords and text ads exist only to attract search queries. Effective optimization is about picking on freaks and losers -- segments in your account that deviate from the norm. In many cases, you're leaving opportunity on the table. News Article Thursday, March 18th 2010, 10:33am EDT Google's Porn Issue With Children Related Keywords. I have covered way too many issues with porn on Google. But let me show you two recent examples that impacts children. (1) A Google Web Search Help thread has a report from a searcher who is disgusted that Google will not remove a pornographic image of two girls for a search on [babysitter]. What upsets me most is that this person said he/she reported the image three or four times. Of course, I have no way of verifying that, so I am going by this person's word but nevertheless, the image should not be there. If a kid goes to Google to find a picture of their babysitter, the last thing you want coming up is a picture of two naked women on a bed together. (2) A second thread at the Google Web Search Help forums reports that when you type in "little girl" into Google Images search, Google auto-suggests "little girl no cloths." Yes, these suggestions are pulled from what people search for but Google does censor certain types of suggestions. We had issues like this before, such as with little kids having sex and other porn examples. Google does censor adult oriented suggestions and most people agree that is what Google should do. For Google, this is a constant battle between those trying to inject porn in their search results and Google trying to keep their search results clean. It is not a fun battle. News Article Thursday, March 18th 2010, 10:32am EDT Larry Flynt Writing Book on Presidential Sex Larry Flynt is turning to a slightly more academic topic: presidents. Well, the sex lives of presidents, to be exact. The Hustler publisher is writing One Nation Under Sex, an “academically sourced” history of White House seductions. Gawker got a look at the proposal, and it includes important historical info like “George Washington was a famous swordsman in more ways than one” and “How did this president from Pennsylvania become so proslavery? In two words: Gay Love.” Gawker writer John Cook notes that it’s mostly “a breezy overview of old rumors” like Abraham Lincoln and James Buchanan were gay, Eleanor Roosevelt had lesbian lovers, and Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis blackmailed Woodrow Wilson over a mistress.  News Article Thursday, March 18th 2010, 10:31am EDT How Sure Are You That What You Know About SEO Is True? You might think you already know everything about search engine optimisation process. Well, think again. Some of the things you know may just be myths. There are several SEO myths that webmasters and search engine optimisers still fail to recognise. What are the SEO myths? Here are the top 25: News Article Thursday, March 18th 2010, 10:30am EDT Google upgrades Chrome across the board. Google has updated the Chrome browser for most of its multiple versions on all platforms in the past few days, although most of the updates have been minor. However, high-priority security fixes have been made to the stable version of Chrome. Five security fixes labeled "high" have been applied to the stable Windows version of Chrome, including a fix for a bug that was discovered by Sergey Glazunov. He has received the first $1,337 Chromium Security Reward for the discovery. The security fixes include plugging holes in tab sandboxing, memory errors occurring with malformed SVG images, integer overflows in WebKit JavaScript objects, and an cross-origin bypass error. One security fix applied to the Chrome beta plugged a hole created by memory errors in empty SVG elements. News Article Thursday, March 18th 2010, 10:30am EDT Sex.com Auction Postponed Due to Involuntary Bankruptcy Filing. The auction of beleaguered Sex.com has been postponed a day before it was to take place due to legal action taken by the domain's creditors, three of whom filed an involuntary Chapter 11 petition Wednesday against Sex.com owner Escom LLC. The petition was filed shortly after noon in the Woodland Hills division of U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California on behalf of three investors—Washington Technology Associates (owed $6,607,803.66), iEntertainment, Inc. (owed $3,476,515.02) and AccountingMatters.com LLC (owed $7,800.00). News Article Thursday, March 18th 2010, 10:29am EDT Emergency Internet control bill gets a rewrite. Sen. Jay Rockefeller alarmed technology and telecommunications firms last year when he announced a plan for the president to seize "emergency" control of the Internet. Now the West Virginia Democrat is trying again with a new version that aides hope will be seen as less extreme. During a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill on Wednesday attended by about a dozen industry representatives, CNET has learned, Rockefeller's staff pitched a revised version of his controversial cybersecurity legislation. It says that after the president chooses to "declare a cybersecurity emergency," he can activate a "response and restoration plan" involving networks owned and operated by the private sector. In an attempt to limit criticism, instead of spelling out the plan's details, the latest draft simply says that it must be developed by the White House in advance. News Article Thursday, March 18th 2010, 10:28am EDT Internet rehab clinic for 'screenager' children hooked on modern technology. Internet rehab clinic for 'screenager' children hooked on modern technology. Children who are hooked on computer games, the internet and mobile phones are to be offered help at what is thought to be the first dedicated technology addiction service for young people in Britain. The Capio Nightingale Hospital in central London - where singer Amy Winehouse was treated for drug addiction - launched the new service for patients as young as 12 following calls from parents concerned about their children's obsession. Youngsters will be weaned off their gadgets in a residential unit and will also be taught face-to-face social skills. News Bytes Wednesday, March 17th 2010, 12:13pm EDT James Bulger's mother demands Jon Venables faces justice. News Article Wednesday, March 17th 2010, 12:12pm EDT Anti-hotel porn legislation gets state House committee hearing today. We've been wondering how this "clean hotel" bill being shepherded through the Legislature would define the kind of pornography it aims to prevent state employees from seeing when they need lodging on the road. Turns out, it won't. Instead, says Bob Tracy, a lobbyist with the Minnesota Coalition against Sexual Assault, Hoteliers will decide for themselves whether they want to offer guests pay-per-view channels that feature violent and degrading porn. If they don't, state employees can do business with them. The House version, HF 3287, was introduced on March 1 by DFL Rep. Larry Haws, of St. Cloud. The House State and Local Government Operations Reform, Technology and Elections Committee is set to take it up today. News Article Wednesday, March 17th 2010, 12:12pm EDT Googlenet dwarfs all but two of world's ISPs. Google handles more internet traffic than all but two of the world's ISPs, according to data from network-security outfit Arbor Networks. If Google were an ISP, says Arbor chief scientist Craig Labovitz, it would be the fastest-growing carrier in the world, and its size would be matched only by a pair of tier 1 providers, which Labovitz declined to name to The Reg, citing "commercial reasons". As of last summer, according to Arbor's data, Google was contributing about six per cent of all global internet traffic. The difference, of course, is that tier 1 ISPs handle traffic from myriad sources, including, well, Google. The Googlenet merely handles Google traffic. "The story here is how quickly the nature of the internet topology and landscape is changing," Labovitz tells The Reg. News Article Wednesday, March 17th 2010, 12:11pm EDT Japan's manga artists angry over sex and violence ban. Some of Japan's leading "manga" artists have voiced their opposition to a government proposal to outlaw sex and violence in children's comics and impose an age limit on anyone buying sexually explicit manga. Headed by such well-known figures in the industry as Fujiko Fujio A, the creator of Hattori the Ninja and the Laughing Salesman, and Tetsuya Chiba, who draws the "Tomorrow's Joe" manga, the artists told reporters in Tokyo that the law would affect their freedom of expression. Machiko Satonaka, another manga artist, said that the proposed legislation, created by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, "pertains to freedom of expression and is open to a variety of interpretations." Japanese baby-bot with runny nose teaches parenting skills She added that she was "horrified" that the city government was planning to regulate comic characters because "no one is actually being harmed."The city assembly, which will vote on the proposed law on Friday, wants to restrict comics and animated images that contain sexually provocative depictions of "nonexistent minors" - an ambiguous concept that is taken to mean characters that people could reasonably assume to be minors, based on their appearances. News Article Wednesday, March 17th 2010, 12:10pm EDT Where’s the 2257 Link for Your Porn, Perez Hilton? Perez Hilton is reported to be the most hated person on the internet—but he may also be the stupidest. Not content to spit venom at any passers-by he feels deserve the special treatment, the bad boy of gossip posted a sexually explicit porn clip to his site Monday featuring Chuy Bravo, the little person sidekick on E! Online's Chelsea Lately. As thoughtless as posting the porn may be, considering his site is a magnet for teens, Hilton also neglected to abide by 2257 federal labeling requirements, and possibly the record-keeping requirements as well, an oversight that could in a worst-case scenario net him five years in the pokey. 18 USC 2257, for those who don’t know, is the law—currently being challenged in federal court by the Free Speech Coalition (FSC)—that is meant to regulate the labeling and record-keeping required of all websites, magazines, movies and other content that contain visual depictions of sexual activity covered under the law. There are myriad things wrong with the regulation, but until it is overturned or altered it remains the law of the land.  News Article Wednesday, March 17th 2010, 12:09pm EDT Waledac botnet 'decimated' by MS takedown. Communications within the notorious Waledac botnet have been "effectively decimated," thanks to a novel takedown approach that combined court actions with a variety of technical measures, a Microsoft program manager said Tuesday. "Operation b49," as Microsoft dubbed the takedown, has severed as many as 90,000 infected PCs from the master control channels that feed them updated malware, spam templates and other malicious data, Microsoft's Jeff Williams wrote here. He cautioned that security watchers can't yet claim victory, but said the initial success of the operation provides a guide for future takedowns. News Article Wednesday, March 17th 2010, 12:09pm EDT Windows Phone 7 Series won't be able to cut and paste, as Microsoft continues to create something with all the limitations of the iPhone and little of the charm. Microsoft has confirmed comments made at MIX10 that Windows Phone 7 Series devices won't be able to cut and paste between applications - apparently users don't want it and even if they did the in-built key-phrase-detection technology would make it redundant. Everyone is desperate to ape Apple's success, but no one's learning from its mistakes. Google still doesn’t have uncontested ownership of the Nexus One or Android brands, while Microsoft is setting up a single marketplace to be stuffed with Silverlight applications - 'cos no one needs or wants to develop native code. News Article Wednesday, March 17th 2010, 12:08pm EDT At SES London I was on a panel that discussed managing global Web sites. At this standing room only session, nearly 100 percent of the attendees were managing multi-country Web sites. A number of attendees asked me to write a quick primer on how to effectively manage global search programs. Managing global sites across dozens of markets is a complex process and can't be summed up in a single article; the following are the key elements essential to the success of any global program. News Article Wednesday, March 17th 2010, 12:07pm EDT Biden unveils child pornography legislation. Attorney General Joseph “Beau” Biden III unveiled new legislation Wednesday, March 10, that would extend financial liability to producers and possessors of child pornography. Senate Bill 158 would entitle victims of child pornography to damages of at least $150,000. Under the bill, victims would be presumed injured, sparing them and their families the burden of proving specific damages in court. The bill also extends the statute of limitations to file a lawsuit from two to three years and permits the court to award attorney’s fees and costs to the victim. The legislation, sponsored by Sen. Karen Peterson, D-Stanton, and Sen. Bethany Hall-Long, D-Newark South, is the second bill introduced this year regarding child sexual abuse. The first, introduced by Rep. Pete Schwartzkopf, D-Rehoboth Beach, Rep. John Atkins, D-Millsboro and Rep. Helene Keeley, D-Wilmington South, allows victims of sexual abuse by their medical provider to file suit at any time. News Article Wednesday, March 17th 2010, 12:06pm EDT Cambodian Police target vendors peddling pornographic phone content. Police in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kork district on Monday raided four businesses accused of selling pornographic mobile-phone content and transferring pornographic film clips and photographs to customers’ phones. Saing Sopheakvicheth, deputy governor of Tuol Kork district, said Tuesday that the crackdown was necessary because selling pornographic content is illegal, adding that “this kind of business practice strongly affects Cambodian society”. He added that an investigation of more than 30 vendors selling mobile-phone content in Tuol Kork district uncovered at least seven offering pornographic content to customers, including the four vendors targeted in Monday’s crackdown, who were arrested and sent to court. Phnom Penh Municipal Court deputy prosecutor Sok Roeun said the vendors, if charged and convicted, face jail terms of between one and five years. He also said that people caught purchasing pornographic content could be fined between 30,000 to 50,000 riels (about US$12). News Article Wednesday, March 17th 2010, 12:06pm EDT Tokyo's 'Virtual' Child Porn Bill Put on Hold. According to the Asahi Shimbun paper, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) intends to postpone the vote on the proposed legislation in Metropolitan Tokyo to restrict sexually provocative, "visual depictions" of characters who sound or appear to be younger than 18 years old. According to the report, the DPJ (the largest faction in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly) does not intend to let the bill come to a vote this month; instead, deliberations will continue with the assembly's General Affairs Committee beyond the current legislative session. Dan Kanemitsu, one of the industry professionals who criticized the bill and met with the DPJ to discuss it, noted on his Twitter account that if this is the case, the bill will be "dead until June," when the assembly's next regular session begins. News Article Wednesday, March 17th 2010, 12:05pm EDT Kate Nash's feminist anti-porn rant: a few tiny flaws. The pop singer Kate Nash has announced that she’s a feminist and can’t stand pornography. As a former employee of a magazine that publishes photographs of semi-naked ladies, I was naturally interested to read her thesis that pornography has become dangerously mainstream, as presumably she would argue that, in my own piffling way, I’m complicit in this horror. I hope she won’t mind if I quibble mildly with her argument. As an example of society’s unthinking acceptance of female objectification, Kate cites the day when, visiting a newsagent’s, she innocently picked up a copy of the Daily Sport – only to discover that it was, in her phrase, “f—ing porn!” Having presumably imagined it to be a venerable newspaper of record, she was outraged by the “gross” photos of “totally naked” women it contained. “I would rather someone went out and bought hardcore porn,” she says, “rather than something that pretends not to be porn and it is.” News Article Wednesday, March 17th 2010, 12:04pm EDT Firefox 3.0 reaching end of the line. A few months later than expected, Mozilla is calling it quits for version 3.0 of its Firefox browser. "There will be no more updates for Firefox 3.0.x," Mozilla said Tuesday in a meeting planning document. The last update will be Firefox 3.0.19, due March 30, according to the Mozilla Wiki page. Mozilla started building the new version after some last-minute security fixes over the weekend. Mozilla had planned to discontinue support for Firefox 3.0 in January, but the browser got a lifespan extension after Firefox 3.6 arrived later than planned. News Bytes Tuesday, March 16th 2010, 12:13pm EDT Kidnappers freed British boy Sahil Saeed 'after ransom payment' News Article Tuesday, March 16th 2010, 12:12pm EDT Porn still available in some Chinese hotels Porn can still be accessed in some of the hotels in Beijing that have Video On Demand (VOD) installed in hotel rooms, even after the authorities launched a 60-day crackdown early last month. VOD is a system that allows users to select and watch video on demand and porn films can often be found on hotels' VOD systems, with movies bought from a supplier on a regular basis. A waiter at one three-star hotel, within a short distance of the National Stadium, admitted: "Yes, we do have porn in our hotel rooms. We have a new film this month, called The Chongqing Beauty. It costs 18 yuan. And there are some other options, ranging from 28 yuan, 38 yuan to 68 yuan." Another waitress at the hotel said that most of the porn films are from South Korea, Japan and the United States. But there are also some from the Chinese mainland, she said. All the films are a similar duration to any other kind of feature film.  News Article Tuesday, March 16th 2010, 12:12pm EDT No jail for NV ex-jailer in 'Girls Gone Wild' case. A judge ordered no prison time Monday for the final defendant in a bribery scheme that allowed "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis to dine on sushi and watch "The Office" and "Family Guy" DVDs while jailed in Nevada on tax charges. U.S. District Judge Larry Hicks sentenced ex-law officer Mary Boxx to 100 hours community service, three years probation and a $1,680 fine after she pleaded guilty to accepting a gratuity as a public official. The maximum possible penalty for the crime was two years in prison. Corrections officials had recommended Boxx serve at least four months house arrest. Boxx tearfully apologized to the judge for the "nightmare" she had put her family through during the past two years.As part of a plea agreement, Boxx, 54, admitted that while working as an inmate classification specialist at the Washoe County jail, she smuggled in special tanning lotion requested by Francis as well as DVDs. However, the Sparks woman said she never connected that to the $1,680 worth of cash and gifts she received from a Hollywood associate of Francis, the creator of the soft porn empire worth millions. "I really had no idea. But I know ignorance of the law is no excuse," Boxx said. The gifts included an airplane ticket to visit her grandchildren in New York, a television and entertainment center and $1,000 in cash the associate, Aaron Weinstein, said she should hold in case Francis needed it. News Article Tuesday, March 16th 2010, 12:09pm EDT ICANN Board Stays on Course for Launch of New gTLD Program. In closing the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)'s 37th international meeting in Nairobi, ICANN's Board chose to continue with the current implementation plans leading to launch of the New gTLD Program, rather than pursuing a proposal to institute a system of "Expressions of Interest" (EOI), a pre-registration process for those wishing to apply for a new generic top-level domain (gTLD). According to ICANN, in its resolution, the Board noted that the potential benefits of proceeding with an EOI process would be outweighed by the costs of potential delay to the New gTLD Program. Although there are a limited number of issues still outstanding, synchronizing the processes for issue resolution with the proposed EOI step and the launch of the New gTLD Program would add complexity and potentially create an extended timeline. After consideration, the Board determined that the most efficient path was to focus staff resources on resolving the remaining issues."We thought there need not be added another level to the approval process of new gTLDs," stated Peter Dengate Thrush, ICANN's chairman of the Board. News Article Tuesday, March 16th 2010, 12:07pm EDT What's the most effective ad you've ever come across? Think about this for a second. Not the best ad, which might encompass creative masterpieces, three-minute epics, or jokes and sight gags that still have you laughing a week later. These certainly get and hold your attention. But the true measure of an ad is its effectiveness in selling a product, promoting a brand, or otherwise driving action. For example, the long, drawn-out "wassup" from a Super Bowl ad long ago stills own a place in our vernacular (to be fair, mostly because "The Office" revived it), but can you recall the brand that created the ad? News Article Tuesday, March 16th 2010, 12:06pm EDT Icann creates trademark clearinghouse. Icann closed its latest international meeting with the announcement that it will create a database of internet trademarks, in a move designed to better protect them. Chairman of the board of Icann, Peter Dengate Thrush, said the database would make it easier for firms to launch trademark infringement claims, and have them dealt with swiftly. “In forming this trademark clearinghouse, we’ve listened to our community about providing trademark protection,” said Dengate Thrush. “We’ve also adopted an extremely rapid process by which people or organisations can challenge trademark infringement.” However, Icann did not agree to a proposal that would have allowed firms to pre-register to apply for new generic top-level domains. News Article Tuesday, March 16th 2010, 12:05pm EDT Will it be possible to provide high-speed internet access nationwide in 10 years? Imagine a world where the Internet is available to all, where ultra-fast broadband networks are no longer a bill or service, but a necessity, like electricity or water; something most people need in order to survive.“Broadband is an infrastructure challenge that’s very akin to what we’ve faced in the past with telephones and electricity,” FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said in an article by Associated Press reporter Joelle Tessler. The FCC wants to provide Internet access for all in the next 10 years, but at what cost? While most people could probably benefit from using the Internet for such useful tasks as looking up celebrity gossip, stupid cat videos or playing Farmville, to say that the Internet is critical for daily life is absurd. Furthermore the FCC believes that you and the cable companies should pay for those who are less fortunate who don’t have access to high speed streaming porn. Just like Karl Marx said, “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.” The FCC is doing this by charging it to the country’s platinum account, the stimulus bill that is already in the red for $7.2 billion for 2009. The plan calls to fundraise the rest of the gap by “reclaiming some airwaves from TV stations and auctioning those frequencies to companies that deliver wireless Internet access,” according to Tessler. News Article Tuesday, March 16th 2010, 12:04pm EDT ICANN delays decision on .XXX domain Following its recent meeting in Nairobi ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) again declined to make a decision on the .xxx domain for sites with adult content.The .XXX proposal has been going on for years. The proposed .xxx global top-level domain (gTLD) has been up for debate for quite some time: ICANN announced in 2005 that it would come into play but changed its mind a year later, rejecting the domain in 2007 and remaining undecided ever since. The decision on implementation of .xxx is being delayed until ICANN's next meeting in Brussels this June but it is looking hopeful for ICM Registry as the outcome was that ICANN considered the independent review panel's declaration in conformity with the organisation's bylaws and "explored possible paths regarding ICM's application for the .XXX sTLD". Meanwhile founder of the world wide web Tim Berners-Lee has his views on gTLDs" "While they are not doing too much, I didn't think having the .mobi domain name is logical because the whole point of having one web is having one URL or web address. "The question you have to ask is if adding domains like .xxx or .mobi make life better for web users," he added. News Article Tuesday, March 16th 2010, 12:04pm EDT Porn baron's $1m payout for withdrawn artworks. Sydney porn king Con Ange and his estranged wife, Mimi, have been ordered to pay art auction house Sotheby's an estimated $1 million compensation for withdrawing 22 paintings from sale on the day they were due to go under the hammer last year. The decision by judge Kim Hargrave in the Supreme Court of Victoria is believed to be the first time sellers have been ordered by a court to pay the hefty withdrawal fees that art auction houses demand in the event sellers renege on consignments. Mrs Ange must pay $731,000, 30 per cent of the estimated value of her artworks, plus $36,000 interest and Sotheby's legal costs."It's the first time we're aware that anyone's sued for a withdrawal fee," said Sotheby's acting chief executive Gary Singer. News Article Tuesday, March 16th 2010, 12:03pm EDT Pirate Bay blocking row silenced in Norway. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and a pro-copyright group have given up their fight to get telecoms outfit Telenor to block access to The Pirate Bay in Norway. The rights' holders have twice failed to convince Telenor to comply with its demands to cut off the BitTorrent tracker decentralised peer-to-peer network site. According to Computer World, which cites a statement (Norwegian only) on performing rights society group TONO's website, any appeal against the case has now been dropped. TONO and IFPI were understood to be considering bringing the case to Norway's supreme court after losing two rounds in the Norwegian court system against Telenor, which refused to play nice on the issue. News Article Tuesday, March 16th 2010, 11:57am EDT Google fails to grab Nexus name. Google has demonstrated that it too can name a phone without waiting until it owns the name: its attempt to get Nexus One recognised as a trade mark has been rejected. Google filed for a trademark on "Nexus One" in December, but the rejection of that filing was noted up by Why The Lucky - though an appeal is likely on the basis that Google has never, to our knowledge, been involved in the oil industry. In December last year Google filed to have "Nexus One" registered with regard to "mobile phones", but the existing owner of the word "nexus"- one Integra Telecom - was awarded possession of the term with regard to a whole host of telecommunications services, including: "transmission of data and voice... conference calling, call forwarding, call rejection, call return, call waiting, caller ID, caller ID block... and high-speed access to a global computer network." News Article Tuesday, March 16th 2010, 11:56am EDT Anti-virus suites still can't block Google China attack. The vast majority of consumer anti-virus products are still failing to block the Operation Aurora exploits used in the high profile attack against Google and other blue-chip firms last December, according to independent tests. NSS Labs evaluated the effectiveness of seven popular consumer endpoint security products to see which blocked variants of the Operation Aurora attack. The security testing firm reckoned that most, if not all, of the products would block the exploit and malicious code payloads associated with an ultra-high profile attack that has been a mainstay of talk in the information security biz for the last six weeks. News Bytes Monday, March 15th 2010, 11:43am EDT Sarkozy's party battered in French elections. News Article Monday, March 15th 2010, 11:42am EDT Nominet to release super-short domain names. A host of new, short domain names will be made available under the body responsible for domain names ending in .uk, Nominet. It plans to allow the registration of previously-banned domain names consisting of one or two characters. The non-profit body also plans to allow people to register names consisting of terms that make up other parts of domains, such as com, gov or edu. Nominet's Policy Advisory Body (PAB) has recommended the changes and it has now asked users and industry to respond to the plans, which it backs. "These recommendations and suggestions have been reviewed internally and we consider that in general where there is no longer a technical or policy reason for a restriction in our rules, then those rules should be removed," said a Nominet statement. News Article Monday, March 15th 2010, 11:42am EDT What's to be gained by creating sex.xxx? The idea of creating a new Top Level Domain name for porn has been floating around for a few years, but it's never managed to get off the ground. To be honest, I think the only people that would gain from .xxx are those who sell domain names. The adult entertainment industry isn't too keen on .xxx because it fears legal porn sites might be herded into that domain space and then easily blocked off from the rest of the internet. Of course Playboy isn't going to abandon playboy.com, so it's just going to pay extra for playboy.xxx and forward it to playboy.com - to stop anyone else using the .xxx domain name. Obviously people looking to clean up the internet might call for .xxx to be mandatory for all porn sites, stripping away their .com domain names. I couldn't see that ever happening, especially because the legal porn sites have invested so much into their .com sites and branding. At the very least they'd demand serious compensation - otherwise it would be like evicting all the strip clubs from Kings Cross and hiding them in a Marickville back street without reparations. Perhaps playboy.com could be automatically forwarded to playboy.xxx, but I doubt the parties involved would see this as a reasonable compromise. Of course it's hard to take anyone seriously who uses the words "mandatory" and "internet" in the same sentence - it generally displays a lack of understanding of how the internet works. Even if the legal porn sites complied with a mandatory order to move to .xxx, you can be sure the illegal porn sites wouldn't. News Article Monday, March 15th 2010, 11:41am EDT Why it's difficult to battle Web Porn. How has China's latest drive against Web porn fared several months after it was launched? If availability is the yardstick, the censors don't seem to have made much headway. For example, despite repeated government warnings and condemnations, Google's Chinese portal is still providing links to obscene pictures, videos and articles. On the day I checked, a Google search of "shoushou" - the nickname of a Beijing car model who was recently the victim of a sex photo and video scandal - turned up 22.7 million listings on how to download the videos and photos. There are several reasons why cyber porn is still thriving despite the Internet crackdowns. First, the emergence of the Web 2.0 community in China and explosion of user-generated and interactive content have provided new shelters for cyber smut. Chinese bloggers totaling more than 50 million have found a free public sphere to express their views, a good thing for the country's democratization on the one hand; on the other, many of them have no qualms about posting sexually explicit content to attract eyeballs to their blogs. Second, censoring content is labor-intensive and goes against the business logic of commercial websites locked in cutthroat competition for high volumes of Web traffic and advertising revenue. The relationship between commercial websites and Internet regulators is always difficult and the hide-and-seek game will continue. News Article Monday, March 15th 2010, 11:40am EDT Did Bing Outsmart Google in Their Real Time Results Strategy? It was big news last year when both Bing and Google announced they had struck a deal with Twitter. Both would make use of the Twitter fire hose to spread the words we were all sending out through Twitter. Google chose to go for the integrated results. Real time results show up in the 'regular' search results. Somewhere below the fold, when the topic is 'hot' enough and when the search is related enough, the real time tweets show up. Bing decided to go the other way. They opened a specific page for Twitter searches, deciding not to let the results interfere with the regular results. The first responses were in Google's favor. The way Google went was the way to go. With results integrated into the result page, combined with the huge advantage in market share, Google would surely win this battle for the real time searcher. After all, why go to a separate page, when it's right there, in the middle of the search results? The future, however, might show a different look. Bing might have chosen the best route to go. Most probably even without knowing it themselves. News Article Monday, March 15th 2010, 11:39am EDT New California Labor Law Aimed at Safety in the Porn Industry. California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health Standards (OSHS) Board is weighing a new California labor law that would require all male performers in pornographic material to use condoms. The move stems from a petition from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which claims that the adult industry has failed to adequately ensure the health and safety of its performers - an issue that gained prominence after the AIDS breakout in the LA porn industry in 2004. "The adult film industry has steadfastly refused to take any steps to protect its workers from diseases spread by blood borne pathogens, resulting in thousands of employees becoming infected with sexually transmitted diseases," writes Michael Weinstein, the foundation's president, in the petition. "Clarification and enhanced enforcement of the rules are called for." News Article Monday, March 15th 2010, 11:38am EDT KC man gets 20 years for photo-manipulation of porn. A Kansas City man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for using a computer to make a clothed child appear naked in photos. The Kansas City Star reported that 66-year-old Elvon Arndt agreed to the sentence in his plea bargain. Arndt pleaded guilty this past week in federal court in Kansas City to attempted production of child pornography. He acknowledged that he took photographs of the clothed girl, which he then manipulated with computer software. News Article Monday, March 15th 2010, 11:38am EDT China Shuts down 140000 Porn Mobile WAP Sites. China has shut down or blocked more than 140,000 mobile WAP sites found to contain lewd or pornographic content during the country's porn crackdown that started last November, Xinhua News Agency reports. China's anti-porn and illegal publication watchdog revealed the figure on Monday, saying the move has "clearly cleansed the internet environment." The authorities' next move will focus on major and key cases that offer pornography for mobile phone users, especially those who have servers set up abroad. China stepped up its war against internet pornography in a five-month campaign, which was launched last August by nine government and Communist Party of China (CPC) departments, involving police, public relations, health, information technology, banking, and radio, film and television. The crackdown was conducted in three phases, with particular attention placed on Shanghai, Beijing, Guangdong, Zhejiang and Anhui, where many WAP sites are registered. News Article Monday, March 15th 2010, 11:37am EDT FCC Envisions 100 Mbps Into 100 Million Households By 2020 The future never looked faster. If the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gets its way, by decade's end the entire nation will be wired for speed and not because of coffee. The new mantra of the commission is high-speed broadband internet access for everyone, but it won't happen without a fight or three. Tuesday the FCC will deliver to Congress an ambitious 10-year plan that "is likely to generate debate in Washington and a lobbying battle among the telecommunication giants, which over time may face new competition for customers. Already, the broadcast television industry is resisting a proposal to give back spectrum the government wants to use for future mobile service," The New York Times reports. News Article Monday, March 15th 2010, 11:36am EDT What Does Google Social Search Mean for SEO? Surprise, surprise, they've done it again. That's right, the genius minds over at Google have come out with an interesting service called Social Search. In a nutshell, it takes a logged in user's personal connections and searches through them to find whatever they're looking for. The results are incorporated right into the results of a normal Web search in the way universal search incorporates images, videos, and other content. This is Google's response to the hyped vertical of social search, already started by companies like Aardvark (which is now owned by Google). The idea behind social search is basically to get the input of your friends, rather than anonymous Web sites. This tends to fit into certain types of searches, such as "What's a good restaurant to take my wife for our anniversary?" rather than "How many light years away is Alpha Centauri?" News Article Monday, March 15th 2010, 11:35am EDT Pirate Bay founders get post-Sweden election appeal date. The Pirate Bay appeal finally has a tentative autumn 2010 date set for the founders of the infamous BitTorrent tracker website. In April last year Peter Sunde, Carl Lundström, Frederik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg were found guilty in a Swedish court of being accessories to breaching copyright laws. Immediately after the four men said they would appeal the decision, which saw the founders handed one-year prison sentences and fines of 30 million kronor (£2.8m). According to the Svea Court of Appeals in Sweden, Sunde, Lundström, Neij and Svartholm Warg might see their appeal dates booked in between 28 September and 15 October this year. News Article Monday, March 15th 2010, 11:34am EDT Historian warns against copyright-fight heavy hitting. Copyright-dependent industries risk alienating the public and undermining intellectual property laws with their unregulated and aggressive tactics, according to an historian who has studied nearly 400 years of piracy and intellectual property law. Adrian Johns, a professor of history at Chicago University, told technology law podcast OUT-LAW Radio that the behaviour of large multinational companies whose business is based on copyright, such as record labels, publishers and broadcasters, threatens to turn the public against them. News Bytes Friday, March 12th 2010, 12:01pm EST BNP 'whites-only' membership rules outlawed. News Article Friday, March 12th 2010, 12:00pm EST Life After Porn: The Retirement Challenge. From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, there was no bigger porn star than Christy Canyon. Energetic, unenhanced and with an air of approachability, she was the perfect fantasy girl. When she ended her career in 1997, though, she had no idea what her next move would be. It’s a common problem in the world of adult entertainment. Porn stars, you see, don’t get 401k plans. They don’t have pension plans. And when their careers end, they really aren’t able to carry their most notable skill to another job. It can be a daunting thing to face – especially for those who have broken through and found longevity in the industry. Canyon was lucky. Beyond the fixed amount per film she earned for performing with Vivid Entertainment, she also negotiated a $1 royalty for each copy of the film that was sold. And in the heyday of porn, that was a substantial number. News Article Friday, March 12th 2010, 11:59am EST Global campaign seeks to crush web censorship. Reporters without Borders has launched World Day Against Cyber Censorship, a global event designed to raise awareness of censorship on the internet. The initiative names and shames the worst offending governments, bundling the UK, France and Australia alongside others like China and South Korea. The press organisation also names Saudi Arabia, Burma, North Korea, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Uzbekistan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan and Vietnam, and has asked global trade bodies to intervene and encourage some of these to improve their record on censorship. "As a barrier to trade, web censorship should be included on the agenda of the World Trade Organisation," said Reporters without Borders. |
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