general internet news - 1 June

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

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nl: Dutch paedophiles launch political party
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Dutch-paedophiles-launch-political-party/2006/05/31/1148956374410.html
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411366/734001

Amnesty: we must free the internet
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1784625,00.html

Legal dispute breaks out over Web 2.0
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/05/30/216173/Legal+dispute+breaks+out+over+Web+20.htm

us/fr: Supreme Court Won't Consider Yahoo Case
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/30/AR2006053000504.html
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-05-30-yahoo-nazi-case_x.htm

nz: Police issue warning about hoax email
http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,0a28,00.html
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10384348

us: Apple thwarted in bid to unmask leaker
http://news.com.com/2100-1047_3-6077547.html

nz: Broadband call as ruling looms
An Internet group is joining the chorus of calls for
Telecom to open its network to competitors, as a
Commerce Commission ruling on the issue looms.
Internet New Zealand, which manages and owns the
dot-NZ domain name system and registry and lobbies for
better broadband, says a new research report shows New
Zealand broadband does not measure up with other
developed countries' services.
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411415/728096
http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3682840a28,00.html

uk: Net advertising 'to overtake national newspapers'
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1786543,00.html

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CENSORSHIP, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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nl: Dutch paedophiles launch political party
Dutch paedophiles are launching a political party to
push for a cut in the legal age for sexual relations
to 12 from 16 and the legalisation of child
pornography and sex with animals, sparking widespread
outrage.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Dutch-paedophiles-launch-political-party/2006/05/31/1148956374410.html
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411366/734001
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19310780-23109,00.html
http://www.capeargus.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=55&fArticleId=3269031

et: Gov't Denies Blocking of Websites
Information Minister Berhanu Hailu told the Committee
to Protect Journalists (CPJ) that no websites had been
blocked within Ethiopia in response to calls by global
media watchdogs on authorities to unblock websites
that have been inaccessible since 19 May and their
expression of concern over censorship in the country.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200605300646.html
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=17783

et: Two bloggers arrested and beaten, Los Angeles
Times reporter tear-gassed
Reporters Without Borders today condemned the arrests
of two bloggers, Mohammed Sharkawy and Karim El-Shaer,
during a demonstration at the Press Syndicate in Cairo
yesterday and the behaviour of the police in using
violence to disperse protestors and attacking Los
Angeles Times correspondent Hossam El-Hamalwy as he
was trying to cover the event.
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=17812

zw: Interception of Communications Bill Gazetted
GOVERNMENT has gazetted the Interception of
Communications Bill 2006, that seeks to establish a
communication centre to monitor and intercept certain
communications in the course of their transmission
through a telecommunication, postal or any other
related service system.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200605300484.html

eg: New Vehicle for Dissent Is a Fast Track to Prison
Just over a year ago, Alaa Seif al-Islam was one of a
growing number of Egyptian bloggers who recounted
their lives online, published poetry, provided Web
tips, helped private aid agencies use the Internet and
stayed out of politics.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/30/AR2006053001178.html

us: High-Tech Hide and Seek
Technology Enables Parents to Spy On Kids... And Kids
To Fight Back
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/27/AR2006052700126.html

cn: China, the Internet's Broken Link
Danny Weitzner from the W3C started out today?s
plenary session with a discussion of the Internet and
Society called ?China: A Broken Link on the Web. Is it
the case that if everyone?s a publisher, then too is
every government a filter and interceptor? He starts
off noting the story of Yahoo! ?helping jail a Chinese
writer? and made some interesting points:
http://www.windley.com/archives/2006/05/china_the_inter

Media urges China to end cyber censorship
Global press leaders have told China to stop Internet
censorship and have slammed Western companies that
helped the government develop software that prevents
Chinese citizens from accessing information on human
rights.
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=115&art_id=qw1148995083860B216

uk: Rochdale man fails to prevent neighbour's erection
A Rochdale man has failed to prevent his neighbour
extending his property after the local council's email
filtering system blocked two missives containing the
word "erection"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/31/rochdale_email_filter/

au: Tasmania hosts latest attempt tocensor Internet
At face value the state of Tasmania is about to become
a testing ground for keeping the Internet free of
violent and pornographic content.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2006/05/28/2003310440

Web censorship: Correspondent reports
As human rights group Amnesty International launches a
global campaign to try to halt censorship of the
internet by governments, BBC correspondents report
from some countries where web users face difficulties.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5024874.stm
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/legal/0,39020651,39271933,00.htm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/30/amnesty_anti_web_censorship/

Amnesty: we must free the internet
Human rights group reunites with The Observer to end
repression online.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1784625,00.html

Today, our chance to fight a new hi-tech tyranny
Forty-five years ago a remarkable article in The
Observer launched Amnesty International. Now, we are
joining with the human rights organisation again to
highlight a new threat to freedom - internet
censorship. Internet users are spied on, controlled
and locked up around the world for opposing repressive
regimes. This is our chance to do something about it.
Here Kate Allen, UK director of Amnesty International,
launches the campaign and tells how a simple email can
make a difference.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1784643,00.html

Amnesty International: Kampagne gegen Internetzensur
http://golem.de/0605/45573.html

ru: Online newspaper editor faces a year of hard
labour for insulting Putin
Reporters Without Borders today condemned the closure
of online newspaper www.cursiv.ru by its Internet
service provider on 22 May, three days after
prosecutors being investigating its editor, Vladimir
Rakhmankov, on charges of ?insulting a representative
of the state? under article 319 of the criminal code
in an article headlined, ?Putin, Russia?s phallic
symbol.?
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=17844

Nackte Wahrheiten über das Web
Bibliothek des Weltwissens, Trödelmarkt für Trash- und
Häppcheninfos oder Schmuddelecke für Sexsüchtige? Über
die Qualitäten des WWW gibt es geteilte Meinungen. Was
die nackten Tatsachen angeht, gibt es jedoch
Erkenntnisse: Es ist alles viel schlimmer als
befürchtet.
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzkultur/0,1518,418686,00.html

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Legal dispute breaks out over Web 2.0
A non-profit organisation for IT professionals has
been hit with a cease-and-desist letter by lawyers for
media giant CMP in a dispute over use of the term Web
2.0.
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/05/30/216173/Legal+dispute+breaks+out+over+Web+20.htm

Squabble Over Name Ruffles a Web Utopia
Web 2.0, a term that has come to represent the latest
incarnation of the Internet, a place where Web sites
are more dynamic and interactive, has a certain
Internet utopianism at its heart. But that image took
a hit last week when a dispute broke out over who was
allowed to use the term.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/29/technology/29web.html

eu/us: EU court annuls data deal with US
The European Court of Justice has annulled an EU-US
agreement requiring airlines to transfer passenger
data to the US authorities.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5028918.stm
http://www.out-law.com/page-6959
http://www.out-law.com/page-6960

us/fr: Supreme Court Won't Consider Yahoo Case
The Supreme Court passed up a chance Tuesday to
consider whether Yahoo Inc. could use American courts
to resolve an overseas dispute over the Internet
company's display of Nazi memorabilia.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/30/AR2006053000504.html
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-05-30-yahoo-nazi-case_x.htm
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SCOTUS_YAHOO_NAZI

nz: Police issue warning about hoax email
Police today warned that a hoax email purporting to be
from them, and which contains a virus, is circulating
within New Zealand.
http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,0a28,00.html
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10384348

New spyware program blackmails computer users
A spyware program that lures computer users by
claiming to give free access to pornographic Internet
content ends up "blackmailing" them into purchasing a
program to clean the infection, digital security
experts have warned.
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=115&art_id=qw1149025501908B223

ca: Cyber-security Plans Require a Privacy Perspective
by Michael Geist
Since taking office in late January, Prime Minister
Stephen Harper has sought to distance himself from the
policies of the preceding Liberal governments. 
Perhaps no longer.  Information posted recently on a
government directory indicates that the Conservatives
are preparing to launch a new cyber-security
initiative that may originate from a Liberal plan
which was first proposed in April 2004.
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1269

us: Apple thwarted in bid to unmask leaker
Apple Computer suffered a setback in its effort to
plug an internal leak, after a state appeals court
ruled that the computer maker can't immediately get
its hands on records of who may have contacted an
Apple enthusiast site with details on an unreleased
product.
http://news.com.com/2100-1047_3-6077547.html

us: Court ruling protecting bloggers? sources hailed
as historic
Reporters Without Borders today hailed a Californian
appeal court?s ?historic? decision on 26 May that
online journalists and bloggers have the same right to
protect their sources as other kinds of journalists.
The ruling was issued in a case between the US
electronics manufacturer Apple and websites that
posted confidential information about some of its
products.
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=17850

gm: Online newspaper hacked, editor smeared and
subscribers threatened
Reporters Without Borders voiced outrage today at an
attempt to smear exiled Gambian journalist Pa Nderry
Mbai, the editor of the online Freedom Newspaper
(http://www.freedomnewspaper.com), by hacking into his
website and posting a false statement of allegiance to
an associate of the president together with the names,
addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses of all
its subscribers, describing them as ?informers.?
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=17842

au: CSIRO closer to WiFi win
THE CSIRO has received a boost from a US District
Court judge in its long struggle with global
technology heavyweights, spearheaded by Microsoft,
over a wireless network patent that may be worth
billions of dollars.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,19299001%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

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GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY
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us: Gonzales pressures ISPs on data retention
U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI
Director Robert Mueller on Friday urged
telecommunications officials to record their
customers' Internet activities
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6077654.html
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/themix/36859/

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SPAM
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New tool takes aim at spam
A new downloadable spam button is launched which
reports and deletes spam email in a single click.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/security/new-tool-takes-aim-at-spam/2006/05/30/1148956333194.html

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INTERNET & NEW TECHNOLOGY USE
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us: Internet advertising up 38 percent in first
quarter: study
U.S. Internet advertising surged 38 percent to a
record $3.9 billion in the first quarter as marketers
moved additional dollars to the Web, according to data
released on Tuesday.
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=12369562

uk: Net advertising 'to overtake national newspapers'
The internet will overtake national newspapers in the
battle for advertising spending in the UK by the end
of the year, it was predicted yesterday.
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1786543,00.html

The Shorter, Faster, Cruder, Tinier TV Show
What do 18-year-old guys want to watch on their
cellphones? MTV grapples with creating entertainment
for the smallest screen.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/28/magazine/28mtv.html

YouTube
Today on YouTube, six million people will watch 40
million videos - and no, it's not porn. Leo Benedictus
speaks to those at the forefront of the internet's
latest phenomenon.
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1786562,00.html

Old media to embrace internet upstarts
High-level media and advertising executives are to
meet for a brainstorming session led by McKinsey, the
management consultancy, aimed at capitalising on the
surging popularity of social networking websites.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/2d524b0a-ef4b-11da-b435-0000779e2340.html

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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nz: Broadband call as ruling looms
An Internet group is joining the chorus of calls for
Telecom to open its network to competitors, as a
Commerce Commission ruling on the issue looms.
Internet New Zealand, which manages and owns the
dot-NZ domain name system and registry and lobbies for
better broadband, says a new research report shows New
Zealand broadband does not measure up with other
developed countries' services.
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411415/728096
http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3682840a28,00.html

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VoIP
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au: VoIP industry group joins comms forum
Fledgling telco group the Australian Voice over IP
Association (AVOIPA) is being absorbed into the
Australian Communications Industry Forum (ACIF).
http://zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/VoIP_industry_group_joins_comms_forum/0,2000061791,39257467,00.htm

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