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Mobile Operators Want to Charge Based on Time and Apps

Stevie Converse — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:26:57 -0500

Full article: GigaOM
Stacey Higginbotham
Even as three European carriers last week argued that Google and Apple should pay them for transporting content to their wireless data subscribers, operators there are exploring plans to charge users based on time of day and type of application used.

China's 'Green Dam' Overflows and Bursts

Stevie Converse — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:02:04 -0400

Full article: Huffington Post
Leslie Harris
Chinese Internet users won an important victory when the Chinese government indefinitely delayed implementation of the widely condemned "Green Dam" filtering mandate. Although this isn't the first time the government has retreated from an unreasonable Internet-related mandate, it is the first time that there has been such a transparent, coordinated and vocal effort both in and out of the country to halt the order.

YouTube Takedowns Offer a Chilling Look at What a Filtered Web Could Look Like

Stevie Converse — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:19:15 -0400

Full article: Public Knowledge
Mehan Jayasuriya
In a Web-driven economy, there are fewer commodities more valuable than user-generated content. But there's a cadre of extremely powerful companies that can disrupt the flow of user-general content at will. Their heavy-handed approach could define the very nature of the Web -- and the long-term viability of the Internet economy may lie in the balance.

Net Neutrality, Copyright Spoiling for a Fight

Stevie Converse — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 07:31:43 -0500

Full article: Internet News
Kenneth Corbin
Net Neutrality advocates scored some recent victories with language in the broadband stimulus package, giving their efforts fresh momentum. But their ideal may be facing an even tougher opponent -- content filtering -- when Congress takes up the issue again.

Do You Herdict?

Stevie Converse — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:49:25 -0500

Full article: Public Knowledge
Mehan Jayasuriya
Herdict.org is a new Web site developed by the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society that aims to collect and aggregate data on Web blocking and filtering. To celebrate the site launch, the Herdict team has produced a video that explains how the site works.

Herdict: Harnessing the Herd to Map Web Filtering

Stevie Converse — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:11:17 -0500

Full article: Public Knowledge
Mehan Jayasuriya
A new web-based tool from the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society uses crowdsourcing to collect and aggregate instances of web filtering around the globe, in order to create a map of where in the world sites are either blocked or otherwise inaccessible.

Australia's Internet Filtering Too Ambitious, Doomed to Fail

Stevie Converse — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:31:50 -0500

Full article: ars technica
Iljitsch van Beijnum
Rather than actually doing something about illegal content, the Australian government is running a pilot program that simply makes a list of it and tells ISPs to filter everything that's on the list. This approach is politically murky and fraught with civil liberties problems. And besides, it won't work.

Comcast P4P Tests Boost P2P by 80 Percent

Stevie Converse — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:09:34 -0500

Full article: Broadband Reports
Karl Bode
A coalition of most major ISPs, researchers and Pando networks, is working on a more efficient protocol that can significantly speed up P2P transfers. But a number of questions remain unanswered concerning filtering and ISP gatekeeping.

Filtering Failure: Belgian ISP Gets Reprieve from Court

Stevie Converse — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:46:52 -0400

Full article: Ars Technica
Iljitsch van Beijnum
Belgian Internet Service Provider Scarlet won a small victory in the ongoing legal battle between the ISP and Belgian copyright holders representative SABAM. Scarlet will not have to pay penalties for failure to comply with a court order to implement peer-to-peer filtering of copyrighted material.

Free Speech Groups Oppose Free Internet Filtering

Holiday Shapiro — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:59:58 -0400

Full article: Sci-Tech Today
Frederick Lane
M2Z's proposal for free national Wi-Fi broadband service has drawn opposition from T-Mobile and wireless carriers. The FCC appears near approval, but with filtering rules that are drawing fire from free speech groups.