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NewsWatch: G8 Focus on Regulating Power of Internet
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June 1, 2011 By Wayne Hanson from News Reports
G8 Focus on Regulating Power of Internet (Video)
"The worst thing youcould have is bumbling government regulation from politicians that barely know know how the Internet works." -- Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia BBC
Twitter, Facebook, Social Media Make Mark in Tornado Response, Relief
Moving almost as fast as the tornadoes that tore through Alabama on April 27, questions about the storms' terrible toll and calls for help almost immediately rippled across Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites. In the days and weeks that followed, those websites became a hub for people wanting to help, as users offered community-specific storm updates, worked to reunite people with pets or wind-tossed family photos, and provided public forums to honor those killed by the storms. Birmingham News
Iran Pulls Plug on Internet
Iran is taking steps toward an aggressive new form of censorship: a so-called national Internet that could, in effect, disconnect Iranian cyberspace from the rest of the world. The leadership in Iran sees the project as a way to end the fight for control of the Internet, according to observers of Iranian policy inside and outside the country. Iran, already among the most sophisticated nations in online censoring, also promotes its national Internet as a cost-saving measure for consumers and as a way to uphold Islamic moral codes. Fox News
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