On June 25th of this year, ICANN resurrected the .xxx sponsored Top Level Domain from its death, yet again.Ten years after it was originally proposed, very few ever thought it was a good idea. So why is it back?
The history of the .xxx TLD goes back a decade to when Jason Hendeles formed the ICM [...]
It seems so rare to find anyone of integrity and purpose among the ruling elite of our nation today. We have become a democratic state of cynics, ruled by cynics. We see ulterior motives in every action, every vote, and every speech. The result of this cynicism is that our representatives, our nation’s leaders, believe [...]
I have been asked by some journalists and others to comment on the recent actions taken against Comcast and their policy of interfering with peer-to-peer application traffic. Of course, the problem with journalists and policy makers is that they don’t want to understand the real issues involved; they simply want to setup a black [...]
Last week Citizen Lab released a kind of everyman guide to circumventing Internet censorship. The guide is by no means exhaustive, but offers some well known and simple methods for bypassing Internet content control systems used by some of the most repressive governments in the world. It has been said that we now live in [...]
I have written several times in the past about AT&T’s questionable treatment of content in order to further their own business agenda. Now comes word that AT&T is officially enshrining their policies in their Terms of Service agreement with AT&T users. As Slashdot reported a few days ago, the updated ToS includes the following [...]
Oh, this is great. Earlier this year, Christopher Knight made a video to promote his run for the Board of Education in Rockingham County, NC. He posted his video to you-tube, and because it was clever and funny it got a lot of attention. VH-1 decided to include Mr. Knight’s video in it’s Web Junk [...]
The Washington Post reported today that China will begin pushing images of cartoon police officers to Beijing Internet users beginning September 1st. The anime officers will remind users of their government’s all watchful eye. Specifically,
[t]he male and female cartoon officers, designed for the ministry by Sohu, will offer a text warning to surfers to abide [...]
