Politics Stories for 2007

Senate Majority Leader Takes On File Sharing 591
EU Google Competitor Project Gets Aid Worth $166 Million 111
Google Set to Bid $4.6 Billion for Airwaves 156
Which Google Should Congress Believe? 428
Senate Committee Passes FCC Indecency Bill 507
Broadband Data Improvement Act Clears Committee 128
Patent Reform Bill Approved by House Committee 95
Canada's Copyright Cops Give Go-Ahead For iPod Tax 230
Webcasters Call Bunk on SoundExchange DRM Ploy 109
Executive Order Overturns US Fifth Amendment 853
The ESRB, Earmarks, and Manhunt 2 in Game Politics 48
OOXML Denied INCITS V1 Approval 159
"Tubes" Senator Being Investigated For Corruption 613
Japan To Adopt Open Software Standards 75
Indiana Allows BP To Pollute Lake Michigan 490
Japan Bans Use of Web Sites in Elections 190
Net Radio Wins Partial Reprieve 96
U.S. Court Denies Webcasters' Stay Petition 264
FBI Data Mining For More Than Just Terrorists 130
Putting Canadian Piracy in Perspective 188
A Flawed US Election Reform Bill 188
Latest Revelations on the FBI's Data Mining of America 446
Surgeon General Describes Censorship From Bush Administration 805
FCC Head Wants New Wireless Devices Unlocked 221
The Pirate Bay Won't Be Censored 226
NH Signs Bill That Rejects Federal Real ID 231
DOJ Accidentally Gives Lawyer Wiretap Transcript 319
Court Orders Dismissal of US Wiretapping Lawsuit 362
FCC Rules Open Source Code Is Less Secure 365
UK Copyright Extension in Exchange for Censorship? 238
Panic Over Failing QuikSCAT Satellite Overblown 131
Massachusetts Makes Health Insurance Mandatory 779
Captain America Buried in Arlington National Cemetary 314
Massachusetts Likely To Approve OOXML 164
Bush Commutes Libby's Sentence 1574
South Korea Now Officially Taxing Virtual Worlds 70
FTC Says 'Slow Down' on Net Neutrality 106
Permit May Be Required For Public Photography in NYC 301
John Edwards on Open Source Voting Machines 128
Russia Claims Large Chunk of North Pole 242
CallerID Spoofing to be Made Illegal 351
National ID May Have Killed Immigration Bill 481
Will Linux Win the Next Presidential Election? 453
CIA Declassifies the "Family Jewels" 356
NY Legislature Rejects "Microsoft Amendment" 223
Wikipedia Gets State Funding in Germany 157
ESRB Now Enforcing Game Trailer Ratings 86
CA Bill Limits Skin Implantation of RFID Chips 275
FBI Seeks To Restrict University Student Freedoms 593
Underfunded NSA Suffers Brownouts 198
US Prepares for Eventual Cyberwar 223
Congress to Revisit Virtual Goods Taxation 205
Take Two Shelves Manhunt 2 350
Internet Radio Will Go Silent on June 26th 250
How-Not-to-Hire-U.S.-Workers Law Firm Fires Back 462
C.I.A. to Let "Skeletons" Out of its Closet 235
EU Broadens Probe of Search Engines and Privacy 35
Subpoenas Issued Over NSA Warrantless Wiretapping 260
Lawyer Asks RIAA To Investigate Bush Twins 529
France Bans BlackBerries In Govt. On Fears of Spying 268
Congress Considering More Low Power FM Stations 133
E-Voting Report Finds Problems with Modern Elections 165
Peer Review Starts for Software Patents 102
Canadian Politicians Demand DMCA 195
Google's New Lobbying Power in Washington 167
Lawrence Lessig to Leave Copyright Sphere 192
Manhunt 2 Ban Fallout, Game Rated AO By ESRB 384
Users Rage Against China's 'Great Firewall' 277
EU Privacy Directive — Coming To the US? 180
Redistricting Videogame Shows Problems in the System 322
White House E-mail Scandal Widens 839
Microsoft Moves To Change NY State Election Law 222
Microsoft Bends To Norwegian Pressure 117
Say Nothing About the Failing Satellite 193
Congress Considers Forcing Travel Registration 321
Is Scientific Consensus a Threat to Democracy? 836
YouTube to Host Presidential Debate 180
China Taking on U.S. in Cyber Arms Race 262
Senate Discusses Third Pipe Using 700MHz Spectrum 78
FBI Finds It Overstepped Bounds in Collecting Data 107
House To Vote On Paper Trail and OSS Voting Bill 258
Can Statistics Predict the Outcome of a War? 572
More States Rebel Against Real ID Act 295
Microsoft May Be Investigated By Attorneys General 260
Behind the Scenes of Canada's Movie Piracy Law 186
Patent Office Program To Speed Computer Tech 80
Jailed Chinese Reporter Joins Yahoo! Suit 103
Satellite Images Used to Document International Atrocities 171
Justice Dept. Defends Microsoft Against Google 329
Indian Nationalists Forcibly Censor Orkut 360
How to Save the Internet 133
Church Threatens Legal Action Over Sony Game 244
China Censoring Flickr 218
The SoundExchange Billion Dollar Administrative Fee 127
Legal Online Gambling May Return to US 231
A Field Trip To the Creation Museum 1854
New York Jumps Into Open Formats Fray 184
White House Derails Attempts to End Illegal Wiretapping 647
'Dangers of the Internet' Resolution Passed By Senate 305
Thompson Declines PAX Debate, Blames Penny Arcade 101
Safemedia's CEO Tells Congress He Can Stop P2P 288
FCC Indecency Ruling Struck Down 548
Misuse of Scientific Data By the White House 577
Putin Threatens US Missile Bases In Europe 997
Pro-ODF Legislation Loses In Six States 264
Google et al. Want 700 MHz Auction Opened Up 170
McCain Wants Ballmer For His Cabinet 431
Russia Claims IP Rights In Manufacture of AK-47 502
Congress Members Who Took RIAA Cash 287
The Private Outsourcing of US Intelligence Services 256
Venezuela's Contrarian TV Station Survives on YouTube 457
Canadian Movie Camcording Addressed With Legislation 148
Indecent Game Sales Now A Felony In New York 398
Germany Declares Hacking Tools Illegal 299
Sci-fi Writers Join War on Terror 793
Illinois Raids Welfare for Videogame Legislation 157
The Real Impact of the Estonian Cyberattack 172
FTC Investigating Google-DoubleClick Deal 81
MySpace Age Verification - for Parents 391
China Crafts Cyberweapons 326
US Opposes G8 Climate Proposals 845
Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007 545
Creationism Museum Opening in Kentucky 1166
Best Presidential Candidate for Nerds? 1140
Using RFID and Wi-Fi to Track Students 183
HP Skates Away From SEC Charges 80
Senator Warns of Email Tax This Fall 552
Holocaust Dropped From Some UK Schools 1286
AllofMP3 Voucher Resellers Quit After Police Raid 137
Congress Debating "No-Work" Database 438
FBI Target Puts His Life Online 324
Ethanol Demand Is Boosting Food Prices Worldwide 599
NY Videogame Bill Undermines ESRB 70
Smithsonian 'Toned Down the Science' In Climate Change Exhibit 372
Spy Drones Take to the Sky in the UK 529
German Linux Community Boycotting LinuxTag 182
US Gasoline Prices Spur Telework 512
Broadband isn't Broadband Unless its 2Mbps? 351
Documents Reveal US Incompetence with Word, Iraq 419
Experts Now Say JFK Bullet Analysis Was Wrong 550
Russia Accused of Cyber-War Against Estonia 373
Bush Causes Cell Phone Ban 588
Not All the DOJ Missing Emails Are Missing 656
US Senators Question Indian Firms Over H-1Bs 415
Congress May Outlaw 'Attempted Piracy' 768
Canadians Overpay Millions on Copyright Tax 144
Norway Moves Towards Mandatory Use of ODF and PDF 202
US Military Launches YouTube Channel 348
Monday is Wiretap the Internet Day 264
Posting Porn Link Judged Unlawful in Hong Kong 146
Bill Bans NSA Eavesdropping 424
Bubble Fusion Researcher Faces Fraud Trial 154
For Democrats, Florida Primary May Not Count 363
California to Start Review of Voting Machines 154
CA Solar Use Falling Because of Economics 362
Privatization Limiting Access To Information 163
Proposed Legislation Is Mooninite Fallout 280
Deadline For Saying "No" To National ID 284
Verizon Claims Free Speech Over NSA Wiretapping 391
Two US States Restrict Used CD Sales 500
Library of Congress Threatens Washington Watch Wiki 125
Massachusetts Joins the Real ID Fight 330
Canadian Coins Not Nano-Tech Espionage Devices 412
Australian Extradited For Breaking US Law At Home 777
Conservative Sarkozy Wins Presidency of France 962
Bill To Outlaw Genetic Discrimination In US 353
Utah Anti-Kids-Spam Registry "a Flop" 117
CNN To Release Debates Under Creative Commons 151
Brazil Voids Merck Patent On AIDS Drug 765
Congress Asks Universities To Curb Piracy 405
Obama Requests Creative Commons for Presidential Debates 478
Obama's MySpace Drama 483
Lip-Reading Surveillance Cameras 271
Orkut In Pact With Indian Law Enforcement 88
2012 Olympics Security to be Chosen by Sponsorship 165
UK Voters Want To Vote Online 288
New MySpace China Tells Users to Spy on Each Other 158
NBC Believes They Own Political Discourse 259
Ohio Audit Reveals More Diebold Problems 222
India To Offer Free Broadband by 2009 245
A Reprieve For Net Radio? 115
Jack Valenti, Dead at 85 650
Resolution To Impeach VP Cheney Submitted 1202
Netcraft Shows Smartech Running Ohio Election Servers 688
Microsoft Responds to EU With Another Question 545
French Voting Machines a "Catastrophe" 259
FDA Considers Redefining Chocolate 939
China's New Internet Plan 259
The Best and Worst US Internet Laws 67
Canada's Wayne Crookes Sues the Net 200
In Russia, 50% of News Must Be Happy 551
RMS Protest Song On Gitmo 500
Text Messages Used To Monitor Elections 42
Russia's Floating Nuclear Plants Under Fire From Greens 234
SCO Chairman Fights to Ban Open Wireless Networks 343
Space Race Heats Up in Asia 86
Bill Would Require Labels on Cloned Food 251
Montana Says No to Real ID, Passes Law to Deny It 518
NY Governor to Target Violent Video Games 306
Louisiana to Pay $92,000 After Game Law Fight 32
Washington Bans Chemicals; Industry Freaks 373
Microsoft's 'Men in Black' Kill Florida Open Standards Legislation 320
Norway Liberal Party Wants Legal File Sharing 563
Gary Kasparov Arrested Over Political Fight 427
New Laws of Robotics Proposed for US Kill-Bots 373
IRS To Go After eBay Sellers 310
Blogger Spurs US Radio Host's Firing 505
US Government IT Security 'Outstandingly Mediocre' 86
New Law Lets Data Centers Hide Power Usage 208
Democrats Appoint RIAA Shill For Convention 698
Police Objecting to Tickets From Red-Light Cameras 807
Thousands of White House E-mails Deleted 799
National Intelligence Director Seeks Expansion of Spy Powers 346
Google Earth Highlights Darfur 328
Nintendo Supports US's Anti-Piracy China Measure 45
China Slams US Piracy Complaint 346
FTC Threatens Spyware Distributors With Prison 126
Kremlin Seeks to Control Online Media 220
Microsoft Opposing California Open Doc Bill 191
RIAA & MPAA Seek Authority To Pretext 263
An iPod For Every Kid In Michigan 333
Blogger Freed After 226 Days in Jail For Contempt 224
Turkish Assembly Votes For Censoring of Web Sites 247
One Step Closer To Spaceport America 149
Billions Face Risks From Climate Change 659
China Systematically Developing New Technologies 261
Tokyo Demands YouTube Play Fair 239
Congress to Fight Piracy with Education Funds 163
VeriSign Increases Domain Name Pricing 94
Thailand Bans YouTube 377
Annual H-1B Visa Cap Met In One Day 473
Diebold Goes 0 For 3 In Massachusetts Case 119
Daylight Saving Change Saved No Power 766
ICANN Wants Immunity 235
Gary McKinnon Loses Extradition Appeal 380
EU Launches Antitrust Probe Into iTunes 318
SCOTUS Says EPA Can Regulate Carbon 360
E-Voting Reform Bill Gaining Adherants 161
Pirate Bay Raid Investigation Finished 234
DHS Wants Master Key for DNS 266
Wildlife Deputy Changed Science For Lobbyists 174
Mexico City Starts 'Games for Guns' Campaign 54
Private File Sharing To Remain/Become legal In EU 147
A Chinese Virtual Currency Challenges the Yuan 183
Russian School Teacher 'Pirate' Case Re-Opened 97
ICANN Rejects .XXX Top Level Domain, Again 134
Rockstar's Road To Ruin 59
CA Proposes Rigorous Voting Machine Testing 172
USPTO New Accelerated Review Process 218
John McCain's MySpace Page "Pranked" 503

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