A group of activists have banded together to protect the Internet from what they see as bad legislation, with a focus initially on copyright enforcement proposals. Members of the new Internet Defense League hope they can harness the ...
Tags: Internet, bad legislation, copyright enforcement proposals
The Republican and Democratic parties should take a stand for Internet "freedom" during their upcoming national conventions, a group of Internet activists urged Monday. More than 36,000 people have signed a petition, started by 'Net ...
Tags: Republican parties, Democratic parties, Internet freedom, Internet
The U.S. Republican Party has approved a policy statement that focuses on removing regulations and protects personal data on the Internet. Delegates to the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, approved on Tuesday a platform ...
Tags: U.S., Republican Party, policy statement, personal data, the Internet
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta) has been dealt another blow as an influential European parliamentary committee rejected its adoption. The International Trade Committee voted against the proposed Acta legislation by 19 votes ...
Representatives from Infra-Metals signed papers with the Southern Ohio Port Authority on Friday to officially transfer land in New Boston over to the company to build a new USD 13 million steel fabrication and distribution plant. The ...
Tags: Infra Metals, SOPA Board, Metals, Metallurgy
Tuesday's election leaves President Barack Obama in the White House and maintains the balance of power in Congress.In many longstanding technology debates,policy experts see little movement forward,although lawmakers may look for ...
Tags: high-skill immigration, U.S.election, large tech companies
U.S.President Barack Obama won re-election Tuesday night,topping 270 electoral votes to defeat Republican challenger Mitt Romney just after 11 p.m.yesterday. Romney held a small lead in the battleground state of Virginia,but most election ...
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The UK's Draft Data Communications Bill–aimed at making it easier for authorities to spy on electronic communications–will be useless and quite dangerous if enacted,says Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. "It will force many ...
Tags: UK, Draft Data Communications Bill, electronic communications
Popular domain name registrar and Web and email hosting provider GoDaddy is experiencing a severe outage, one that appears to have taken out not only its hosted services, but even those websites that have registered their domain names ...
As the U.S.and eight other nations negotiate a wide-ranging trade agreement,several digital rights groups said they're concerned that the Trans-Pacific Partnership(TPP)will bring back controversial copyright-enforcement provisions pushed by ...
Tags: Trans-Pacific Partnership, USA, SOPA, USTR
IDG News Service-The source code of"We The People,"the online system that can be used by citizens to submit their petitions to the White House,is being offered as open source software,an official said on Thursday. "Now anybody,from other ...
Tags: petitions, open source software, SOPA, PIPA, API
Computerworld - Editor's note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly said that Mitt Romney's platform describes government's basic research efforts as an area Romney "plans to cut."Romney says research is important to innovation and ...
IDG News Service-The Russian legislature's lower house on Wednesday adopted a bill that,according to tech companies in the country,could lead to Internet censorship. The bill,which includes amendments to several current laws,still needs ...
Tags: Russia, Tech companies, bill, State Duma
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, has launched a campaign with the Guardian on Change.org to stop the extradition to the US of Richard O'Dwyer, a 24-year-old UK student. Change.org is described as a platform for social change, enabling ...
Tags: Wikipedia, website, web servers, internet