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Canadian Groups Call For Massive Net Regulation 318

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the driving-websites-offshore dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Michael Geist is reporting that Canadian cultural groups including ACTRA and SOCAN have called on Canada's telecom regulator to implement a massive new Internet regulation framework. This includes a new three-percent tax on ISPs to pay for new media creation, Canadian content requirements for commercial websites, and licensing requirements for new media broadcasters, including for user-generated content."
Censorship

Submission + - Oz Internet to be Filtered - Petition Online (getup.org.au)

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MagicRat
MagicRat writes: "The Rudd Government is planning on filtering the internet for every Australian. The closed trials are over for now, but it's only a short amount of time before the Government proceeds with live trials. A group called GetUp.org have a petition ready and waiting to be signed and hopefully get rid of this filter from our internet connections. The filter itself has shown in the closed trials to slow broadband connections by 2%. Now, depending on the complexity of the filter this figure could increase by up to 80%. As it is in Australia, our internet structure is not up to scratch with many other countries, so this will only hurt our internet more."
Security

Submission + - A free Julie Amero talks candidly post lawsuit

Submitted by Da Massive
Da Massive writes: If there's a poster child for the dangers of spyware, it's Julie Amero. The 41-year-old former substitute teacher was convicted of four felony counts of endangering minors last year, stemming from an Oct. 19, 2004, classroom incident where students were exposed to inappropriate images. Now a free woman, she talks about what happened that day and why she hangs a picture on her lounge room wall of Alex Eckelberry, the CEO of Sunbelt Software, who helped get her guilty verdict overturned.
Slashback

Submission + - What is going on with Slashdot? (slashdot.org)

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Anonymous
Anonymous writes: "Over the last couple of months I noticed that the Slashdot main page layout changed a lot in increments, only to be reset to 'normal' recently. This includes anything from headlines overflowing to the history navigation panel. Just the other day it happened again when all stories on the Slashdot main page appeared collapsed (with all the ugly green bars). This has now been reverted again. Is Slashdot being hacked or is it just irresponsible behaviour from the Slashdot maintainers to push ever single update to the main site without serious consideration or beta testing?"
Sci-Fi

The Real Monsters Behind Godzilla 243

Posted by kdawson from the radioactively-enhanced-cash-cow dept.
eldavojohn writes "A Wired blog looks at the real monsters behind Godzilla: his lawyers. Do you think Godzilla is basically a glorified T. Rex? Guess again, as his lawyers have tirelessly argued: 'He's erect-standing. He's got muscular arms, scaly skin and spines on back and tail and he breathes fire and has a furrowed brow, he's got an anthropomorphic torso. The T. rex has emaciated bird-like arms and stands at a 45-degree angle.' Read on to find out why they targeted the site davezilla.com but not mozilla.org. Another abuse of the American trademark & copyright system? You decide — just don't make a float of him or you'll find yourself paying an undisclosed sum to Toho Co. Ltd."

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