Bill Gates says that in the end, Internet censorship will not work. He suggests that censorship will be overcome by “commercial forces”, which is interesting because on the one hand companies are self-censoring already but some are also pushing for change. For example, Google is trying to have censorship treated as a barrier to trade. [...]
February 27th 2008 
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Hard disks sold in Taiwan contained trojan horse programs. The Taipei Times reports:
Portable hard discs sold locally and produced by US disk-drive manufacturer Seagate Technology have been found to carry Trojan horse viruses that automatically upload to Beijing Web sites anything the computer user saves on the hard disc, the Investigation Bureau said.
Around 1,800 [...]
Yahoo has reportedly settled the law suits brought forward on behalf of Chinese citizen’s who were convicted in China with evidence provided by Yahoo playing a part in their conviction.
The World Organization for Human Rights (WOHR) USA, which brought the case on behalf of Shi Tao and Wang Xiaoning, said Yahoo had agreed to the [...]
November 14th 2007 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
The bittorrent tracker site demonoid.com:
The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding.
The Register has more.
November 10th 2007 READ MORE NO COMMENTS
Bell Sympatico is now admitting to traffic shaping during peak usage periods:
“During peak periods of Internet usage, Internet Traffic Management is used to balance bandwidth fairly between P2P file sharing and other applications so that all customers receive fair use of the network”.
For more see P2PNET.
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