Scathing and awesome.

Eeek. Also blergh.

#irony

How usage-based billing throttles innovation.

"A congressional official briefed on the reviews said the administration felt compelled to say publicly that the revelations had seriously damaged American interests in order to bolster legal efforts to shut down the WikiLeaks website and bring charges against the leakers."

Propagating circumvention technology while allowing US companies to export the very tools that need circumventing is like a plumber pouring grease down a drain.

net neutrality on broadband networks; not so much for wireless

Again, all of these companies were well within their rights — the question is, do they have a responsibility to uphold the principles of free speech? Should the role they play as part of the public sphere have an effect on how they police their customers?

"That Joe Lieberman is abusing his position as Homeland Security Chairman to thuggishly dictate to private companies which websites they should and should not host -- and, more important, what you can and cannot read on the Internet -- is one of the most pernicious acts by a U.S. Senator in quite some time."

A group led by former Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde is forming to develop a peer-to-peer-based alternative to today's ICANN-controlled DNS system.

Nice way to visualize Internet censorship in a single country.

Way to go, Comcast.

US wants to enforce a "three strikes" system on ISPs around the world, encouraging them to disconnect users who violate copyright law. WTF.

More info on the proposed three strikes law as part of the US Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.

The fact is, Xinjiang represents a new and extremely troubling flavor of censorship: rather than some sites being blocked, some sites are allowed. The default is now “no”.

Google.cn is going to stop censoring search results!

"computer users are worried that Cyrillic domains will give rise to a hermetic Russian Web, a sort of cyberghetto, and that the push for Cyrillic amounts to a plot by the security services to restrict access to the Internet"

Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam lack the kind of technology and financial resources that China and some other large countries use to police the Internet. The Southeast Asian nations are using other methods -- also seen in China -- to tamp down criticism, including arresting some bloggers and individuals posting contentious views online.

Does anyone else find this creepy and potentially scary?

best. campaign. ever.

Totally creeped out by this.

day of protest against internet censorship