general internet news - Apr 21

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

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CENSORSHIP, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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Biggest consumers of child porn are teenagers
The greatest consumers of the $3-billion Internet
child pornography industry are children between 12 and
17 years.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20050420063440839C737789

Internet porn easily available to children
Experts on Internet pornography will gather at a
conference to tackle issues in the fight against
computer-related crimes against children.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20050419131347506C183134

12% of British teens accessing adult websites - UK gov
study
A UK government study has found that some 12 per cent
of British teenagers aged 13 to 18 regularly use the
internet to visit pornographic websites.
 http://www.dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=7395

Child pornography on the internet threatens to expose
millions to sexual abuse if the IT industry and
governments do not take urgent measures to stop it,
warns an alliance of children's organisations in 67
countries.
The groups have collectively launched the
"make-IT-safe" campaign, spearheaded by Bangkok-based
ECPAT International, which helps monitor child
protection issues for the UN and the London-based
Children's Charities Coalition for Internet Safety
(CHIS).

http://www.indexonline.org/en/indexindex/articles/2005/2/international-calls-for-it-firms-to-pay-for-.shtml

uk: Internet safety campaign launched
One in eight secondary children use the internet
primarily to access pornographic material, according
to government research.

http://www.dehavilland.co.uk/webhost.asp?wci=default&wcp=NationalNewsStoryPage&ItemID=8300714

Action on Internet Safety
Children’s organizations in 67 countries are uniting
to call on the world’s leading Internet and high tech
companies to take responsibility for ensuring
children’s safety online.
 http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0504/S00212.htm

za: Children as young as 11 exposed to pornography
Statistics from a Durban Information Technology (IT)
meeting show the average age at which children are
exposed to pornography is 11 years. Representatives
from government, child protection groups and the
private IT sector have met in Durban to formulate a
way to address the increasing incidence of online
sexual victimisation of children.

http://www.sabcnews.com/south_africa/crime1justice/0,2172,102489,00.html

uk: IT industry told to 'cough up' by child
campaigners
The IT industry should do more to protect kids online,
according to campaigners, who believe that tech
companies should spend dosh to create a global child
protection organisation and use their expertise to
regulate chat rooms and block the transmission of
offensive images.
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/18/kids_online/

ca: Cyber-bullying the bane of wired generation
One in three say they are victimized by schoolmates;
41% don't know the bullies
http://www.canada.com/technology/story.html?id=4296136b-08fa-4def-9c32-f57568dff95f

us: Parents Learn How to Identify and Prevent Bullying
It's something virtually student in America faces at
one time or another... bullying... it can happen at
school, online... just about anywhere... and experts
say it comes in so many different forms, it can be
hard to know how to respond when it happens to your
child.
 http://www.kfyrtv.com/showNews.asp?whatStory=3704

us: Bullies invade cyber space
School bullies don't just lurk on playgrounds, linger
near the back seats of buses and hover by lockers
anymore.

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/cape/041905BULLYAPRIL19.cfm

us: Parents can help teens avoid pornography pitfalls
The prefrontal cortex, according to Timothy P. Faust,
MSW, is the last part of the brain to develop. It is
also the precise area that controls impulses,
prioritizes, and regulates and interprets emotions.
The prefrontal cortex was once believed to have
completed developed by age 12-13. Research now
confirms remarkable changes and growth continue in
that area until the early 20s. This new discovery is
great news for parents pulling their hair out, trying
to figure out the adolescent years (12-19). When does
this crazy behavior end and what can we do?..., is the
mainline questioning for parents of teenagers.

http://www.ashland-wi.com/placed/index.php?sect_rank=5&story_id=198456

us: Congress OKs Bill to Strip DVD Movie Smut
Fledgling technology that helps parents prevent
children from watching movie scenes depicting sex,
violence or foul language won new legal protections
Tuesday under a bill Congress is sending to President
Bush.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SANITIZING_HOLLYWOOD

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SPAM
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Attention shifts to spam containment
There's a new strategy in the spam battle: Call it
containment. Filters for blocking junk e-mail from
inboxes have improved to the point that doing much
more will needlessly kill legitimate e-mail, said Carl
Hutzler, America Online Inc.'s anti-spam coordinator.
So e-mail gatekeepers are shifting gears.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/04/18/new.spam.battleground.ap/index.html

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INTERNET & NEW TECHNOLOGY USE
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eu: Project to open internet to blind
A three-year project to improve blind access to the
internet has started at Queen's University in Belfast.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/4457793.stm

Web-savvy Danes rule Internet roost
The United States and Switzerland boosted their
rankings in an annual survey of the world's
Web-savviest nations by aggressively rolling out
broadband and wireless Internet connections.

http://reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=8236374

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ONLINE MUSIC & P2P
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UK court orders ISPs to reveal IDs of 33 filesharers
A British judge today ordered five ISPs to name
another 33 music file sharers. The individuals
concerned had uploaded more than 72,000 music files to
the internet, according to a statement by the BPI
(British Phonographic Industry), which sought the
court order as part of its broader legal offensive
against illegal downloading on P2P networks.

http://www.theregister.com/2005/04/19/bpi_p2p_lawsuits/

uk: Brits have bought 5.26 million music downloads
this year
More than five and a quarter million songs have been
downloaded from legal online music services in the UK
so far this year, it emerged this week.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/19/2005_uk_music_downloads/

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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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nz: InternetNZ seeks new executive director
InternetNZ is looking for a new executive director.
The incumbent, Peter Macaulay, who has held the
position since January 2003, will leave on July 31
this year.

http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/C03F44658F54F40CCC256FE70023E805

Murdoch sets out internet challenge
It is time for newspapers to embrace the internet,
said Rupert Murdoch last week, adding: "This thing
called the digital revolution ... is a fast-developing
reality we should grasp as a huge opportunity to
improve our journalism and expand our reach."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1462390,00.html

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ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN
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au: Man fined $7500 over child pornography
A MAN who collected thousands of images of child
pornography on his home computer, some of girls as
young as five, has been fined $7500.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15028314-421,00.html

us: Police Arrest Biology Teacher In Child Porn Bust
A North Forest Independent School District biology
teacher was arrested after police found hundreds of
child pornography images on his computer.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20050419/lo_kprc/2676904
 http://www.click2houston.com/news/4392728/detail.html

us: Moncure man arrested on child-porn charges
An investigation involving child pornography and
sexual assaults on a child by a parent has led to the
arrest of a Moncure man.

http://www.sanfordherald.com/articles/2005/04/19/news/news11.txt

us: Starkville trial of ex-band director on child porn
charge delayed
The trial of Julian Mingo, a former Heritage Academy
band director facing child pornography charges, has
been rescheduled for July 27.

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/11433840.htm

us: Middletown Man Faces 10 Years For Child Porn
A Middletown, Conn., man who pleaded guilty to
possessing child pornography faces up to 10 years in
prison and a $250,000 fine.
 http://www.nbc30.com/news/4392410/detail.html
 http://www.wtnh.com/global/story.asp?s=3228402

us: Routine Police Call Yields Child Porn Arrest
Humble police arrest a man during a routine
disturbance call after they discovered boxes of child
pornography and equipment to make more of it.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/kprc/20050418/lo_kprc/2673272

us: Clovis man sentenced in child pornography case
A district judge sentenced a Clovis man Tuesday to
five years in prison for his part in the production of
child pornography in 2004.

http://cnjonline.com/engine.pl?station=clovis&template=storyfull.html&id=10728

us: Convicted Sex Offender Pleads Guilty to Sex Acts
with Child
A man convicted of third degree criminal sexual
conduct in 1994 has again pleaded guilty to crimes
against a child.

http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=90423

us: Trial is Tuesday for ex-band director charged with
child porn
Trial is scheduled to begin Tuesday in Oktibbeha
County Circuit Court for Julian Mingo, a former
Heritage Academy band director facing child
pornography charges.

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/11425673.htm

us: Ex-fire marshal will lose pension over porn case
When former Hillsborough Fire Marshal Donald Goff gets
out of federal prison in three years for possessing
child pornography and transferring obscene materials
to a minor, he won't have a dime of his retirement
pension left.

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/04/20/Hillsborough/Ex_fire_marshal_will_.shtml

us: Guilty verdict in child pornography case
Several spectators cheered, cried and embraced each
other in a Central Islip courtroom Friday when a
Valley Stream man was convicted of federal child
pornography charges.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-liwern0416,0,792374.story
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