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Kiwi Govt Internet Filter Up and Running
ISPs Watchdog and Maxnet are the first to voluntarily begin filtering the Internet under the govt’s Digital Child Exploitation Filtering System. The New Zealand govt’s Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) has apparently already managed to push live its controversial Digital Child Exploitation Filtering System . Operated in partnership with the country’s ISPs, the system is intended to focus solely on websites “offering clearly objectionable images of child sexual abuse.” Surely all Kiwis are against child porn, but critics point out that the filter will do little to stop determined criminals and fear the list won’t be properly maintained.
Continue reading »etc: Comcast and NBC Universal have officially asked for the Department of Justice’s blessing on their union.
Comcast and NBC Universal have officially asked for the Department of Justice’s blessing on their union. Read More: Broadcasting & Cable
Continue reading »Antitrust? US to review Comcast/NBC deal
What happens when one of the nation’s biggest content distributors tries to buy one of the nation’s big content producers? Thanks to the Comcast/NBC deal, we now know the answer: the Department of Justice takes a magnifying glass to the deal . The DOJ has just announced its plan to review the buyout for antitrust problems.
Continue reading »DOJ: more spectrum for wireless = more competitive Internet
The Department of Justice says the best way to encourage broadband competition is to make many more licenses available for wireless use. “Given the potential of wireless services to reach underserved areas and to provide an alternative to wireline broadband providers in other areas, the Commission’s primary tool for promoting broadband competition should be freeing up spectrum,” the DOJ wrote to the FCC on Monday. Spectrum scarcity is the “fundamental problem” that the agency must tackle in order to help companies like Clearwire, T-Mobile, and Sprint offer high speed Internet comparable to land line Internet.
Continue reading »Obama Appoints Former Microsoft Security Chief New Cyber Security Czar
It took seven months but President Obama has finally found someone to take the cybersecurity czar job no one wanted. Howard Schmidt, a former Microsoft security executive and a one-time cybersecurity adviser to President George W. Bush, has been appointed to the position of cybersecurity coordinator, according to a White House announcement on Tuesday.
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