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A document has been making the rounds showing that the RIAA paid more than $16 million to its lawyers while recouping only a fraction of it through settlements. While some might grin at this seemingly unfavorable outcome for the music industry representatives, the RIAA told TorrentFreak that the overall result of their efforts in court are in their favor.
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Sadly for us poor voters, we all know that no matter how much trust we invest in our elected officials, they won't return the favour by investing trust in us.
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Researchers discover a surprising threat to democracy: our brains
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An online line vote about the filter run by a large number of media outlets.
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Mandatory Internet censorship, and for that matter voluntary censorship, will not protect children in any impactful sense. While voluntary censorship fixes some of the problems of the mandatory model, the overwhelming preponderance of content which it is illegal to possess is still not published on the open web but rather inside of secret networks of criminal associates.
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The Chinese Communist Party has detailed its ambitious but secretive strategy for transforming the internet into a force for keeping it in power and projecting ''soft power'' abroad.
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China, in the opinion of many, has the most extensive Internet censorship system in the world. The government has spent tens of millions–perhaps hundreds of millions–of dollars on filters and other blocking devices to prevent the spread of information over the Internet.
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Ms McMenamin of Child Care thinks it great that ISPs will voluntarily implement filters. Though the time frame for implementation is set to be close to 1 year.
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The is division amongst ISPs. Telstra, Optus and iPrimus want to implement a "voluntary" filter (though only voluntary to ISPs). And Internode and TPG want no part in it.
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Aside from the political and moral justifications for or against
censorship, what Australian internet users are faced with here is
either submission to a capricious, incompetent and ineffective censor
that blocks content largely at random, or blind rubber-stamping of
any vaguely risqué URLs nominated by anonymous complainants.
Either of those alternatives is a nightmare.
