net neutrality

Cyberculture agenda: Follow #Sundance Film Festival online… Tim Wu on FCC’s net neutrality disaster

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Internet Freedom Day: This Year We Go to War for Net Neutrality   This time of year is always the worst of times and best of times for internet freedom. And on this second annual Internet Freedom Day — the anniversary of the successful SOPA/PIPA Blackout protest — we need to keep fighting for network … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: Net neutrality seems to be dead…

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Court in America Trashes Net Neutrality and Opens Internet to Preferential Commercial Use via Faster Connections and Differential Pricing   The Open Internet as a myth of the future?Will Internet go the way of radio — where federal deregulation has led to a concentration of U.S. radio stations in the hands of just a few companies? What is the cause … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: Anonymous vs. Israel, Facebook News Feed and more…

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Social Media, Internet Shutdowns are the Latest Weapons in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict from EFF.org Updates by Eva Galperin Days ago the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) launched Operation Pillar of Defense, its latest military operation against Hamas in Gaza, firing over one hundred rockets into the Gaza Strip in response to rockets targeting Israel. The attacks … Read more

An Americana roundup. Online tools for American elections. Obama rulez on the Reddit session…

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Reddit Rising: Community Site Just Had Its Coming-Out Party from Mashable! by Christina Warren   How Obama Won the Internet ? in an Hour from Mashable! by Chris Taylor   This Is What Barack Obama Looks Like Doing a Reddit AMA from Mashable! by Annie Colbert   Romney confirmed as rival for White House against … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: The Netherlands Passes Net Neutrality Legislation

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The Netherlands Passes Net Neutrality Legislation from EFF.org Updates by parker New legislation in the Netherlands makes it the first country in Europe to establish a legal framework supporting net neutrality. In addition to the net neutrality provisions, the law contains language that restricts when ISPs can wiretap their users, and limits the circumstances under … Read more

Eurosphere roundup: Another Pirate Party victory, Netherlands enshrines Net Neutrality, Greek and French elections aftermath

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Good day for the Pirates from FP Passport by Joshua Keating Understandably, the very scary success of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party in Greece’s parliamentary election has gotten more attention, but local elections in Germany also showed a growing presence for another once-fringe political movement:   Netherlands becomes first EU nation to enshrine Net Neutrality … Read more

digital polemics: Egypt’s Wael at the IMF meeting, WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange vs NY Timesat Logan Symposium. A cyberculture roundup

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  Wael the Plumber: Egypt’s Google revolutionary mixes it up at the IMF from FP Passport by Joshua Keating Along with cherry blossoms, spring means IMF annual meetings here in Washington along with some always intriguing panel discussions. The most highly anticipated talk at this year’s confab was this morning’s roundtable on “Youth, Jobs, and … Read more

A journalism roundup: Al Jazeera’s campaigns “To Bring Broadcast To U.S. etc…

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Al Jazeera Launches Twitter & Meetup Campaigns To Bring Broadcast To U.S. from Mashable! by Sarah Kessler Julian Assange on Wikileaks’ relationship with the international media from Editors Weblog – all postings by Federica Cherubini A story of a relationship fraught with suspicion and tension emerged from an interview with Julian Assange about his organisation’s … Read more

Teens find their own ways to protect privacy? A cyberculture roundup?

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Teens Turn to Social Coding to Protect Privacy on Social Nets from MediaShift In certain teen social circles, it’s considered a subtle act of arrogance, a signifier of the loner, to use a solo photo of yourself for your Facebook profile. Digital natives may have earned their reputation as the “entitlement generation,” but apparently there … Read more

Net Neutrality debates continue; A Guide to the Open Internet, DDoS versus human rights organizations etc- a roundup

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A Guide to the Open Internet: What You Need to Know About Net Neutrality from Daily Bits by noemi You?ve probably been reading/hearing about net neutrality in the recent months. Left and right, people are talking about it ? either trying to push for the concept or trying to take it down. What is net … Read more

“Who?s Suing Whom” in Cyberworld?

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Who?s Suing Whom? from Daily Bits by noemi Lawsuits are so common these days that no one pays attention to them anymore. But, did you have an idea about the extent of pending lawsuits in the mobile industry? We hear about one company suing another for patent infringement all the time, but I doubt that … Read more

Turkey has no shame: Vimeo censored now… #vimeobannedinturkey #censorshipinturkey #turkey #vimeo

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Turkey Adds Video-Sharing Site Vimeo to List of Blocked Websites

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Sweden?s chief prosecutor is still after Julian Assange

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Sexual Assault Case Against WikiLeaks Founder Reopened from Mashable! by Stan Schroeder Sweden?s chief prosecutor has reopened a rape investigation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Recently, Assange was accused with crimes of molestation and rape by the Swedish authorities. Assange has denied the allegations, claiming they are ?without basis,? and later calling the case a … Read more

Attacking global guerilla’s reputation: Julian Assange accused of rape

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update: Swedish prosecutor drops WikiLeaks rape charge GLOBAL GUERRILLA: Julian Assange from Global Guerrillas by John Robb Julian Assange is the front man for Wikileaks. Wikileaks, if you haven’t been keeping up with current events, is a network that runs a site dedicated to making leaks easy.   It’s been very effective at this.  Wins … Read more

EFF reviews Verizon and Google’s Net Neutrality Proposal

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A Review of Verizon and Google’s Net Neutrality Proposal from EFF.org Updates by cindy Efforts to protect net neutrality that involve government regulation have always faced one fundamental obstacle: the substantial danger that the regulators will cause more harm than good for the Internet. The worst case scenario would be that, in allowing the FCC … Read more