World Day Against Cyber-Censorship – 2017 This is a day of observance spearheaded by Reporters Without Borders and Amnesty International in 2008. For this year’s World Day Against Cyber-Censorship, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) issued a report entitled “Censorship and surveillance of journalists: an unscrupulous business.” The report condemns the readiness with which leading Internet companies submit to…
Commerce Department Rejects ICANN Bid for Long-Term Contract The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which has managed internet domains since 1998 under contract with the U.S. Department of Commerce has failed in its bid to win a long-term extension but instead won only a six-month reprieve as DOC announced it had “received…
Righthaven Dashboard and Update Righthaven has filed an appeal of the sole district court decision dismissing its copyright infringement claims – a risky move since a negative ruling could shut down its operations entirely. The tactics of the copyright troll, has triggered a strong a response as the Media Bloggers Association and the Electronic Frontier…
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