general internet news - government regulation - 17 May

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

au: Govt cracks down on offensive tele content
Risque adult material will no longer be accessible to
children using hi-tech mobile phones with internet access,
under a crackdown by the federal government.
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/14/1084289857211.html

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,9558219%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/0,2000061791,39147576,00.htm

au: Jilted lover jailed for emailing explicit shots
A spurned Australian lover who sent sexually explicit
photos of his ex-girlfriend to her American friends,
family, university and workplace, was today jailed for
three months.
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/14/1084289873723.html
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/14/stalker_email/

au: 7 years for doubtful photo business on the Net
E-library of 100 000 child porn photos was seized from the
55-year-old man, including images where he had sex with
sleeping 10-year-old daughter. 55-year-old Australian is
condemned to 7 years of jail in the NSW District Court in
Wollongong. His name is not announced to protect the
identity of his victim.
 http://www.crime-research.org/news/14.05.2004/266

Vietnam Adopts New Internet User Policies
Web surfers in Vietnam must abide by a number of new
policies and restrictions, which come following a crackdown
on cyber dissidents who used the Internet to speak out
against the communist government, state-controlled media
reported.

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/V/VIETNAM_INTERNET_RESTRICTIONS?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
 http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=7166

China Jails Journalist for Two Years Without Trial
A freelance Chinese journalist, who posted Internet essays
commemorating the ill-fated 1989 pro-democracy protests,
has been jailed for two years without trial, a U.S. rights
group said on Wednesday.
 http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=7150
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3706727.stm

cn: Two cyberdissidents sentenced
US-resident Yang Jianli (picture) was sentenced on 13 May
to five years in prison for "espionage" and "illegally
entering Chinese territory", after more than two years of
imprisonment awaiting sentence. Journalist Liu Shui was on
2 May sentenced without trial to two years in a
re-education camp.
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=10388 (English)
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=10390 (Espanol)
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=10387
(Francais)

cn: Nanny knows best
Beijing is cracking down on access to the internet in the
name of public health and safety.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1216810,00.html

my: Malaysia slams terror websites
MALAYSIA'S leader vowed he would not let terrorists hijack
the country's emerging internet industry, after a local
company was revealed as the host of the web site that
posted the gruesome beheading of an American by Islamic
militants in Iraq.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,9558649%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

http://reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=5145293

Online Co. Shuts Down Site With Beheading
The al-Qaida-linked Web site that first posted a video of
American civilian Nicholas Berg's beheading was shut down
Thursday by the Malaysian company that hosted it - because
it was drawing too much traffic.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23151-2004May13.html

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/05/13/malaysia.berg.ap/index.html
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/14/berg_website/

Virtual camp for killers
The internet is becoming a crucial propaganda and training
tool for extremist Islamic organisations. Just before
Christmas, Norwegian scientists surfing the internet
stumbled across a 42-page document that made chilling
reading.

http://theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9544574%255E28737,00.html

uk: Do surfers really love to hate?
The internet has always provided a platform for airing
extreme views both for and against everything from art and
celebrity to race and religion. While this may always have
been the case internet filtering firm SurfControl has
recognised a growth in the number of hate sites aimed at
specific races, religions and minorities within society.
 http://comment.silicon.com/0,39024711,39120633,00.htm

ca: MPs' plan could end free music downloading
MPs studying Canada's copyright laws are urging Ottawa to
beef up regulations that could end the practice of
downloading songs for free from the Internet.
 http://shorl.com/dibrageselena

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1084399812009&call_pageid=968332188774&col=968350116467

http://www.parl.gc.ca/InfocomDoc/Documents/37/3/parlbus/commbus/house/reports/herirp01/herirp01-e.pdf

uk: Government 'No' to Privacy Law
A statutory privacy law was rejected by a Government
minister today, who said it was for courts “to strike the
right balance between freedom of expression and the right
to privacy”.
 http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2915598

Global Forum on Internet Governance: Not everyone agrees on
what is broken nor on what fixing might involve
A global forum on internet governance organised under the
auspices of the United Nations Information and
Communication Technologies Task Force (UNICTTF) was held at
the UN Headquarters in New York, March 25-27, to bring
together leading actors and all relevant stakeholders,
including Member States, civil society and the private
sector, interested in internet governance issues. APC was
involved in planning the forum in its capacity as
coordinator of the UNICTTF working group on ICT policy.
 http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=18720

us: Street fight sparked by chat room brawl
Over 30 people were arrested this week after a war of words
in an internet chat room spilled onto the streets of
Dallas, Texas. As rival gangs left cyberspace, they
resorted to their traditional weapons of choice.

http://out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=streetfightsparked1084528843


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