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Submission + - Google Calls For More Limits on Microsoft (ft.com)

Submitted by teh_commodore on Monday June 25, 2007 @05:30PM

teh_commodore writes: The Financial Times reports that in the ongoing battle between Microsoft and Google, Google is now asking a Federal judge to extend the government's anti-trust oversight of Microsoft, specifically with regards to desktop search software. What makes this political maneuver interesting is that Google "went over the heads of the Department of Justice and US state regulators to appeal directly to a Federal judge." Google's move follows closely on the heels Microsoft's appeals to block Google's purchase of ad agency DoubleClick.

Submission + - 'Citizen journalism' battles the Chinese censor (breitbart.com)

Submitted by teh_commodore on Monday June 25, 2007 @01:32PM

teh_commodore writes: From the article

In the strictly controlled media world of communist China, "citizen journalism" is beating a way through censorship, breaking taboos and offering a pressure valve for social tensions.

In one striking example this month, the Internet was largely responsible for breaking open a slave scandal in two Chinese provinces that some local authorities had been complicit in.

A letter posted on the Internet by 400 parents of children working as slaves in brickyards was the trigger for the national press to finally report on the scandal that some rights groups say had been going on for years.

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